The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-12-15

muoh Judge Porter, without notiolnR the
outburst continued in . most impressivem man
ner to argue his point, when 0uiteau broke in
sRaln. I'm nota criminal, and I won't be until
am convicted. I won't have that word You
just hold your eloquenoe till you get at the jury =
Col Oorkhill called Geo G. Maynard, who
verified on several material points the testi-
mony Of the preceding witness The court
vas about to announce the usual recess, when
John W. Guiteau aroee and said: s'Your
honor, greatly desire to make . personal ex-
planation. Ny father is dead-"duiteau broke
dovn! Yoa have been vindic.tedL" Davidge
here objected to any more aide scenes The
prisoner had continually been allowed to in
terrupt proceedings, and at this rate the TRIAL
would soon become farce Judge Cox eettled
ne matter by saying: Il SEQ no occasion Mr..
and he eSe sn ssn on p.r"
called He knew M.. D'I. sRS NJ. T.e
seoville and had met the prieorer
1t scoville's summer residence in 1875. "lhis
man meyer saw me but once. ;" interrupted Gut
same way. Howard Dunham, Of Boston. teeti-
fed to Guiteau's sanity.
Scovllle read the answer Of President Arthur
TO the lnterrogatories. To the FIRST aud second
questions, 9 aeta, whether no knew the prisoner and
Piled that he knew him; that he has seen him
a. least ten times, possibly twenty times. 70
the question whether he had ever converse d
with him, he replied: ':No, excepting to re-
turn the ordinary solutions Of the dsy. and
once OF twice in answer to his request to 30
employed in the campaign as speaker bv the
republican state committee, Of which VA
Chairman" TO the question what political
| service the prisoner rendered the
republican party during the presi.
Dental c:mp:ign A the answer Was, None. % tba,
Know of Inc fourth question was whether
himself, Gen. Grant, Senator Conkline or .nv
other OF the republican party to furnish him
with any ground for supposing that he would
receive q political position. The answer IL
no. 20
HE HE Pr. PrisonerIIh.t er is matter Of opinion
him m any reason to think he could have anv M.
htlcal or personal influence with youP0 Tha
answer is: II never did"
The Prisoner-He never had occasion tn
n..to, aho ne1t ne Witness was key A Macarthur,
AZ soon az helwas sworn the prisoner remarked:
II know Dr. McArthur very ell He is nice
fellow; very high toned in every vav. owe
him *o5." The witness began to relate how
the prisoner introduced himself and wife to him
ne w.ae1e, na a. tne e'ose OF the service one Sun
dismissal from the First Baptist church. chi
eago. WIZ
The witnees told Of the prisoner and vifa ha-
ing received into the fellowship Of the church
ana OF ; the Gme later asking urgently for mon
of o ths s'''nS Srisoneq n tor pre%misso %1a@ note
the soth Of April, 1871. Se ,oG ~, About .n%,
moned to appear before the advisory comnnit.
tee to answer the charge OF gross i1nmortalitv.
There we're three counts in the charge: First.
tnat NAME ne sGok money which bis wife earned hy
was RENTED to him to assistin supporting him.
and spent IN dissipation with oiher Women'
The second count was that he had been pniltv
OF frequent acts OF violation Of his marriaoe
VOWS. 1o
The Prisoner (again breaking in)-I on,v mar.
!4eu tAao woman on Ten hours notice, and that
her. "'''
The Witness-The third count was that a. A
result OF these various acts OF infideiity he ,vae
suffering from vile and loathsome disease.
The Prisoner That's false
The Witness-1 reoited these charges to the
prisoner and he acknowledged the truth ~
every one Of them. He stated that his excuse
was that his wife was absent that nature's a.
mands had to be met and he could not resist
the entioements Of lewd women on tho streets.
The District Attorney-We present this
testimony because we want to show that what
the detense calls insanity is nothing more Cham
devilishness.
twas with some difficulty that the .pp,suso
that greeted this remark could be quitei
the "he1 ujtDo,s 9rdeF ,snsaaa was restored : the
mony, and said it never occurred to him Tor =
moment thas the prisoner was other than sane
When the cross-examination was closed. the
prisoner. looking up at the cleck, announced
that it was the cockcrow, and time to 70 home
~ also inquired "How many more witneasea
leo that have You, Mr.. Corkhiu? / think It ia
% outrage on the public II you had to pay
ssne OF that money yourself, you would 20
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, DEC o.
The testimony Of to-day supported admir-
ably the theory Of total depravity, and broke
sanity theory. Friends Of client and cred
itors, Wlcm he had swindled, ministers Of the
gospel, lawyers, doctors, business men, with
one exception, they had the same story to tell
that he was. 20 far as their observation went,
shreWd rogue rather than IN insane inno-
cent
At the opening DR.: Macarthur, Of New York,
again took tho stand. Guiteau broke In ex-
oitedly, and shouted out: 1T is purely in the
nature Of confessional. McArthur is not IN
expert or lawyer, and object to his telling
tho jury and tho American people facts which
The court ruled the evidence could be admitted
40 tending to chow the general character Of the
prisoner.
Co,khill-Did you ever see anything in tho
prisoner to indicate insanity?
Answer-No sir, never did.
Guiteau here broke into one Of his noisy har-
rangues.
Col Corkhill desired the court to restrain the
pr.soner, when Guiteau !urned to him and ssid:
"You go slow CorkhiIl, you are spotted, and az
soon as this business is over the president will
remove you"
w. s. Caldwell, the physician Who treated L
". Guiteau during bis last illness, never de-
tected any evidence Of any mental unsoundnees.
deorge ". Plummer VAS then called. Guiteau
Immediately shouted: Il owe this man 800, but
it has cost the government sc o to get him here
., duiteau continually interrupted. and tinall y
close relations with Deity Of late have corrupt
ed your manners. The prisoner laughed
heartily st this ea4ly, and said: "Well, that
ein't 80 bad, Plummer, for . western man :"
did you ever zee anything in bis conduct that
question. mo, sir," replied the witness. moth. 1
ing whatever. He seemed to be . man Of sbil-
ity, vain and conceited; but then he had late
from New York city, on his card, and We ex-
pected the rest" This convulsed the court
Stephen English Of New York, with whom
Guiteau had IN of6ce in the insurance business
sanity, and replied that on the contrary he was
: remarkably clear headed, shrewd lawyer
He completely outwitted the witness: Warren
g. Brown, attorney ct Law, Of New York, was
counsel for Mrs, Guiteau in obtaining 4 divorce
from the prisoner He has believed the latter
perfectly sane. The witness was constantly
interrupted by the prisoner. The witness con-
sidered Guiteau sharp, keen and rational
Mr.. Mclean Shaw counsellor of New York,
detailed . portion Of conversation (terrible
in import now, even then not lightly regarded
between the assassin and himself in 1872,
wherein Guiteau announced his intentions OF
winning notoriety il he had to initiate Wilkes
Booth and kill public man to do it. The au-
dience thuddered - Shaw calmly and distinctly
relsted the incident and gave the
portion Of tho conversation re-.
ferred to, while Guiteau grew 70 excited
that he could scarcely srtcnlate the abusive
epithets which he showered on Shaw.
DR.: Walter Keupster Of the Northern Wis
CONAN insane hospital and ono Of the best
known specialists on nervous aud BRAIN diseases
and insanity in this country, who has been
summoned % IN expert says that he fully be-
neves that Gutteau il sane, and that his ecoen-
tr1cles In the court are simply acting.
Mr.. Henry Morely, ct England, recently
said to New York reporter: Il have beer
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