Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-12
shouted the prisoner, hammering the table. Z"

have never been depraved In my life have been a
Christian all my life" An effort was made to stop
been told" he said, ''that am hurting my by
| talking so much want to say am not afraid to
60 TeSpect the LORD % God viii throw T this count
and jury out OF the window If necessary to protect
At half-past ~ O'Clock recess OF one hour was
| taken
Guiteau Starts the Afternoon Session
| with a Speech.
The court was called to order very promptly at
| l 80 pm.
Guiteau, as soon as he was brought in, started to
make speech. "There are" !" he said, "a good many
poodle dogs in the newspaper business, and want
10 express my utter contempt for some OF these
" am going to notify the Jury" said the prts-
would be a stain on the American people to hang
| man in my condition"
Excitement in Court.
when Guiteau stopped speaking, some one in
| the crowd, near the window, at Judge Cox's left
hand, shouted, " Shoot him, now!" causing great
excitement In court Officers Immediately hur-
ried 70 the spot, but were unable to discover who
| the offender was.
Whe1 order was restored the cross-examination
OF Dr. Spitzka was continued. The case OF Abby
| meric experiments being stated, the witness was
asked II that threw any light on the question OF
''rhe strongest light In the world" replied the
witness
NJ mNo m - person can become insane or feeble
| huence unless he had the taint in him. The Wit
ness said he could probably mesInerize one out OF
person might not be damaged If the meek experiment
was repeated 100 times; still, If such experiments
were continued they would be apt to do great
damage.
The witness described the shape of the prison.
ers head as indicating insanity. The inequality
IN IN the two sides OF the prisoners head was, he
lhought, ABOUT three times more than normal
MORAL NONsTRoSITY.
| The witness being asked to state the grounds on
which he based his opinions as to congental mora,
monstrosty In the prisoner, said: eff had only that
mans mean face to guide me would say that he
might be a very depraved man, or a moral mon
ster; but when find in addition these factors
the shape of the head Inequality of the facial
muscles etc, i am inclined strongly to believe,
and TO affirm, SO far science would permit me
tal."
The witness afterwards correcting his testimony
added de1ect he noticed in the prisoners speech
witness said he had detected the Inequality in the
facial muscles by asking the prisoner to smile.
"lou told him to smile?' said Mr.. Davidge, i'm
pressively.
eyes"
And his smile was one-sided smile?"
YES Or you might call it lOp-sded smile"
The 'lOp-s!ded smiles" was characteristic the
witness said, of large number OF insane cases
THE EXPERT WANTS TO SIT DOWN.
1ue "itueso aSheu 10 SlJ uOWn, saying
TINT he was suffering with an affection of the
heel.
"An affection of the heel, you say7" said Mr. Da-
vidge. ~ thought it was higher up."
The witness was permitted to sit down, but had
not occupied the chair for a minute when Mr..
Corhhill insisted that he should stand up, saying
that he wanted to see his face.
ITS trivial matter" said the witness, rising.
"It's not trivial matter for me- said Mr. Cork
hill
Hes bad man for you, Corkhin," broke In the
prisoner; "a bad man for you"
The witness said he had found that the prisoners
reasoning was logical, but based upon false
assumptions
At 8 O'Clock the court adjourned, DR.. Spttzka's
examination not having been completed.
SCENES AT THE JAIL YESTERDAY.
The announcement made last Saturday week
that no visitors would be received at the Jail Sun
days had the effect OF keeping away from there the
usual Sabbath crowd. Yesterday there were but
few callers, and those were mostly friends OF the
officers in charge. OF course, Guiteau Was the on
but for once he did not seem to be anxious to see
visitors. He complained yesterday mOrnlng OF
slight headache, which he attributed to malaria.
In the afternoon he said he was much better
While eating his dinner about O'Clock, some Wis
itos suddenly entered his cell and liking to be
pressed his Misrepresentation During the afternoon
a number of ladies went to his cell, and some sug-
gested that they would like hts autograph, where
urOn he remarked: 81 am not writing to-day" He,
however, wrote few OF them Some of the ladies.
as they entered the cell "a double one, 10 feet by
itSC.J hepI DIS away IEOm the prisoner POSI-
BILE. and when he got up to shake hands with the
visitors one of them quickly withdrew, with look
OF horror and deteStation. She S3id in whisper
"Oh, can't shake hands with that man; can
hardly look at him" The remainder Of the party
at once withdrew. About y O'Clock Mr.. Scoville
visited the prisoner, accompanied by Dr. Spitzka.
The prisoner remarked that he had written to Mr.
Bennett. of the Herald, couple Of weeks ago, and
expected to hear from him, but thought he must be
out of town. He remarked that Saturday was
comparatively quiet day for him, although he had
some visitors He remarked to Mr.. scovllle chat
he hoped In his lecture he would not try to make
him tthe prsOner out fool.
TRIAL NOTES.
Mrs Dunmire. the "ex-wife" " OF the prisoner,
spent the morning in the witness room, waiting to
bt called to the stand.
One Lady In the audience this morning brought
Daby-the first baby that has attended the trial
The little one made its presence and the strength
OF its lungs known several times during the
morning.
Warden Croc&er has received recently a num-
Der OF anonymous letters advising him to remove
the prisoners from the wing of the jail occupied
by Guiteau. so that In the event OF dyn mite px
plos:on no other lives except that Of the assassin
will be endangered.
Society Notes.