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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. IA Little Speech. CRANK GUITEAU TALKS
 TO THE COURT
 AND REV|LES THE WITNESSES. A Short Session of the
 Court. SCOv|L[E AS \ LECTURER. Appealing For Sympa- thy From the People.
scOV|LLE AS 4 LECTURER.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Guftenu's TrfaI-The Prisoner Gets in His Little speech-His TIrade Against the W1tnesses-Adjournme on Account of Jurors Illness. -> WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-A muggy outside
 atmosphere caused the air in the court room
 to seem unusually oppressive to-day. The crowd in attendance was not diminished, however. The prosecution called the Rev. Dr. John A. Withrow, pastor of the Park Street Congregational church, Boston. He knew the prisoner in the years 1878 and 1879 in Boston the prisoner introduced himself to witness as co-laborer with MT. Moody, and wanted to lecture in witness church in answer to Colonel Robert Ingersou, which witness would not allow; he saw the prisoner frequently at the prayer meetings and social gatherings of the church, and marked him particularly; his opinion was that Guiteau was in no respect insane, but 8 very shrewd or cute man.
 asked to give the general tone of the prison CTS remarks at the social meetings, and re- piled that the prisoner generally took part in the discussion upon whatever subject might be under discussion; that he was always criti- cal and accusative rather than conciliatory and kind.f Guiteau-'T always spoke to the point, incisive and gritty; that's me. There's no nonsense or romance in my composition. If there had been, might have gone through the world more smoothly"
 juror having been granted 8 brief ab- sence from the room, the prisoner enter tained the audience with declamatory re- marks saying that it was evident that the prosecution intended to prove that he knew LII l. I.@HL dent. He wished to say that it made no diff ference whether he did or not, as his free agency was destroyed. He rested his case on that, not on whether or not he was insane or fool,
 Charles A. Bryant, of the Equitable Life Insurance company, next told 8 characteris- tic story illustrating the prisoners method of borrowing money from acquaintances and his real or pretended expectations of getting the Paris consulship This testimony being dis tasteful to the prisoner, he reviled the wit ness industriously. He shouted out: s'WelI now, want to say right here when a wit ness comes here and tells what is false, I shall tell him, You are mistaken, sir. That ! is false; that is lie and finally, you are a miserable whelp.' That is as far as I shall go. It's equivalent to the barroom expres- sion, Go down below but I don't go that far" Witness never thought of Guiteau's be- ing insane.
 h6nry M. CO4uer, dGGOruSy, OI NoW 1OFk, took the stand. ''I remember you, sir, D shouted Guiteau, ''you are the man that put up that He1ald job on me; keep quiet, sir, Burning to Mir. Scoville) will dispose of l this man in short order. He brought suit against me to pay over certain money, and ! the court ruled that should keep it that ! kills his evidence" Witness related an in
 stance of Guiteau's collecting $175 and fail I ing to pay it over. MT. Scoville objected to ! the evidence. The court, however, over
 ruled it, and an exception was noted. The ! evidence proved extremely damaging to the prisoners oft-asserted claim of having always lived an upright, Christian life, and Guiteau ! wriggled and expostulated, and vainly at \ tempted to explain the transaction. Witness l at one point said: II informed Judge Don ohue at the time that considered Guiteau 8 thief and scoundrel." Guiteau (excitedly) | 'FYou did not dare say so to me. I would ! have knocked you down."
 This testimony was not concluded when the | illness of juror compelled the court to ad- ! journ till tomorrow. The jurors name is l Gates, and the trouble is in his head. It ren, \ ders him unable to concentrate his attention. ! He is subject to such spells.