The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-12-22

drawn until tho record or the court in proof
of her divorce could be sent for. DR.. Noble
Young, physician at the Jail where Guiteau has
been confined, testified that he considered the
prisoner perfectly sane man. Gultean
had told him that if the President should die
he would be confirmed in his belief that the
Lord had inspired him, MRS Scovilie, the
question Of vital Importance. Both Mr.. SEQ
vile and Guiteau objected. Mira. Scoville then
wrote out the question and handed 1t TO her
husband, but he set1sed to put 1t to the wit
ness. Mrs. Scoville was annoyed, and objected
to letting the witness leave the stand. Joseph
A. Reynolds, Chicago lawyer, testified that in
July last he had three interviews with Guiteau
in jail. He read his notes of Guiteau's conver
sations In the first interview, on July IA, the
assassin said that after the American peo-
pie had come over to his side he would
he discharged. On July Is he said he expected
his iri, nds whom he had placed in power to
save him from punishment On July IL he
seemed astonished to learn the men on whom
he had counted as his friends condemned his
act. On July 10 he gave the witness an address
to the public in which he said that If his act uni
ted the ConkIihg and Blaine elements, he would
be delighted to hear of Garfield's speedy re-
covery. Guiteau frequently interrupted the
witness, and while admitting the truth of his
statements, declared that he had deceived him
in order to obtain such information. He was
at times very violent. He scoded Mr.. Scoville
and his sister, and denounced District Attorney
| Corkhill.
General REYNOLDS resumed his testimony on
the morning of the twenty-seventh day. BE
found the crime was purely private enterprise
on Guiteau's part for patriotic reasons, as
| Guiteau said caused by reading the nows-
papers. Colonel Corkhill read communications
on the subject of the assassination, written in
July, by Mr.. Conkling, General Grant and
c., lie 100
Hder- Ocean, all expressing abhorronce of the
leod and the doer of it. Mrs, Grant, Of Wash
| ngton, in whose house Guiteau boarded last
June, next told OF her attempts to collect the
amount of the months board. She never sus-
pected that he was insane. Guiteau compli-
mented tho lady, acknowledged the debt and
berated Mr.. Scoville for cross-examining her.
MIS-. Dunmire, Guiteau's divorced wife, again
| took the stand. A few ladies left the room at
this moment whereupon Guiteau famed out
against Colonel Corkhill for attempting to
stir up scandal" and called upon President
Arthur to kick Corkhill as personal favor to
himself, "the author of his present greatness" D."
MIR. Scoville objected to the admission of Mrs.
Dummies testimony she having been the
prisoners wife; but the court ruled that tho
examination might continue. Colonel Cork
Till asked her very few questions, and she
gave her opinion that Gulteau was sane. Mr..
Scoville's method of conducting the cross
examination excited Guiteau's wrath, con-
tempt and ridicule which he freely poured
forth, calling MIR. Scoville consnmmate
iackass," stupid fool" etc, DR.: f. B. Lor-
ing, an oye and ear specialist Of Washington,
testified that he examined the prisoners
eyes on November 80 and December
with reference to disease of the
brain; their condition indicated no such dis
ease. DR.. Allen II. Hamilton, of New York, O
spcc cialist in diseases of the mind and nervous
system, testified that he made three personal
examinations of the prisoners; found no de-
formity but slightly irregular shape of the
head such as is common. He found no physi.
cal signs of congenital insanity or idiocy. The
doctor thought the prisoner eccentric and ill
tempered in Jail he was quiet and self-pos-
sessed his conduct in court indicated that he
was playing part. Witness thought him sane
able to distinguish between right and wrong
and to know the consequences of his acts.