Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-12-17
THE ASSASSIN'S TRIAL.
The Great CUES ton of Guiteau's Sanity Nov
Under Consideration BY the Court
1t Washington.
Guiteau u Playing the insanity Dodge for
All It IL Worth.
Testimony Showing that He Has Been
Hard Citizen, Lunatie or Otherwiss.

Testimony Showing that He Has Been
Hard Citizen, Lunatie or Otherwise.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3.
AZ soon AZ the criminal court opened thia
morning, Guiteau shouted out: ga crank In
Chicago says talked with him about this case.
I don't kDtw the man. It is false" Col.
Rockwell called as the first witness Of the d1y
Mrs. J. M. Wilgon of Leadville, Col She knew
L W. Guiteau from her earliest recollections.
The witness was questioned in regard to vari-
ous members Of the family, and stated posi-
lively that she never saw Indications of insan-
ity in any of them Speaking Of the prisoners
father, l. W. Guiteau, the witness said: ssMy
uncle, Luther. visited me frequently, and I
loved him with very tender affection. Our
Christian character, and such thought as that
he might IN any degree be Of unsound mind
never entered my head. All this midst con-
slant interruptions from the pris-
one' aud ehoutings TO others. Guiteau be-
came enraged at Judge Porter and shouted,
.'Now hold your thunder till you get TO the jury,
judge; you are doing this sort of thing too
much" Judge Porter, without noticing the
outburst continued in most impressive man.
ner to argue his point, when Guiteau broke in
again. "pm nota criminal, and won't be until
am convicted. won't have that word. You
just hold your eloquence till you get at the jury
Col. Corkhill called Geo. G. Maynard, who
verified on several material points the testi-
was about to announce the usual recess, when
John w. Guiteau arose and said: ssYour
honor, greatly desire to make personal ex-
planation. My father is dead-"Guiteau broke
in, interrupting him: "0h! shut up! and sit
down! You have been indicated" Davidge
here objected to any more side scenes. The
terrupt proceedings, and at this rate the trial
would soon become farce. Judge Cox settled
the matter by saying: II see no occasion Mr..
Guiteau, for any explanation on your part,
and the recess was then taken.
Frank Bartlett of Chicago. wss
called; He knew Mr.. aud Mis-.
at Scoville's summer residence in 1875 s.lhis
man never saw me but once" interrupted Gui
teau The wife Of MIR. Bart EFT testified in the
same way. Howard Durham, of Boston. testi-
fed to Guiteau's sanity.
ScOville read the answer of President Arthur
to the Undergraduates. To the first and second
questions, whether he knew the prisoner and
how often he had seen him, the president ' re-
piled that he knew him; that he has seen him
at least ten times, possibly twenty times. To
the question whether he had ever conyersed
with him, he replied: s'Eo, excepting to re-
turn the ordinary solutions of the day. and
once or twice in answer to his request to be
employed IN the campaign as speaker by the
chairman" To the question what political
republican party '0n during rendered. ire nre the
dental campaign the answer was, s.None. that
know Of" The fourth question was whether
or not anything in the prisoners relations to
himself, Gen. Grant, Senator Conkling or any
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with any ground for surprising that he would
receive political position. The answer ia
no.
The Prisoner-That is matter Of opinion.
The last question was: 'tDid you ever give
him any reason to think he could have any no.
Itical or personal influence with your" The
answer is: 81 never did,"
The Prisoner-Ae never had occasion to.
The next witness was Rev. R. A. Macarthur.
pastor Of Calvary Baptist church, New York.
As soon as heIwas sworn the prisoner remarked:
81 know DR.. Macarthur very ell. He is a nice
fellow; very high toned in every way. owe
him $95." The witness began to relate how
the prisoner introduced himself and wife tohin
(the witness) at the close of heservice one Sun
day, and at the same time presented q letter Of
dismissal from the First Baptist church, Chi
eago.
The witness told Of the prisoner and wife be-
ing received int the fellowship of the church
and of the wife later asking urgently for mon
ey, handing him promissory note
q the the prisoner for 800. About
the Goth OF April, 1871, he was sum
moned to appear before the advisory commit
tee to answer the charge of gross Immortality.
There were three counts in the charge: First.
that he took money which his wife earned BY
working in hotel in the country and which
was RENTED to him to assistin supporting him.
and spent in dissipation with other women.
The second count was that he had been guilty.
Of frequent acts Of violation Of his marriage
VOWS.
The Prisoner (again breaking in)-I only mar
ried that woman on ten hours notice. and that
is reason enough why should not live with
her.
The witness-The third count was that as q
result Of these various acts Of in6deiity, be was
suffering from vile and loathsome disease.
The Prisoner-Thatsf false
The WiUness-I recited these charges to the
prisoner and he acknowledged the truth Of
every one of them He stated that his excuse
was that his wife was absent; that natures de-
mands had to be met and he could not resist
the enticements Of lewd women on the streets.
The District Attorney-We present this
testimony because we want to show that what
the defense calls insanity is nothing more than
devilishness.
twas with some difficulty that the applause
that greeted this remark could be Quilted
When order was restored the
the witness rensnmed his testi-
mony, and said it never occurred to him for
moment that the prisoner was other than sane.
When the cross examination was closed, the
prisoner, looking up atthe cleck. announced
that it was the cockcrow. and time to 60 home.
He also inquired '.aow many more witnesses
like that have you, Mr.. Oorkhill? think 1t is
an outrage on the public. II you had to pay
some Of that money yourself, you would 50
slower"
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, DEC. 2.
The testimony Of to-day supported admin
ably the theory Of total depravity, and broke
down much Of the little left Of the original in