The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-12-08
IN REBUTTAL.
TESTIMONY AGAINST GuITEAu.
The Insanity Dodge Played Out---
All the Testimony Against IT,
Guitenu Again Interrupts the Wit
ncsscs--.PrcsIdcnt Arthur Answers
the IutcrrOrntOrtcs.

All the Testimony Against IT,
Guitcnu Again Interrupts the Wit
ucsscs--.presldcnt Arthur Answers
the IntcrrOgatOrics.
The courtroom this morning was not 40
dcnscly crowded ms yesterday, but the comedy
tragedy drew n very good house, The sexes
were about equally divided In number, Among
the prominent people present were Congress-
mon Robinson and Hyatt SMITH OF New York;
Rcnnn, Of West virginia; Ancrltus V. Rice, Of
Ohio: William Harris, the actor, and Dr.
Nichols, formerly In charge Of ~. Elizabeth
Asylum
At 10 u. m. precisely Mr.. scovlllc and wife
entered the room. Mr.. John W. Guitcau, the
assassn's brother, and Col. Reed had pre-.
! coded them.
Marshal Iscnry's Speech.
capt. Henry opened the trial with his usual
| Grafton. "Ladles and gentlemen, you nrO ex-
pected TO keep perfect order to-day. request
especially that that portion OF the audience In
| the body of the building Will keep their seats
| until the recess, In order to avoid confusion"
At 1910 "A, M Judge Donaldson, the court
crlcr, "oyozed" the court Into session and the
| prisoner was ushered In. He looked pale and
nervous and his forehead was discolored by n
| slight bruisC. He took his sent, hlR hand
cufrs were removed and he began proceedings
| by snortlng Outi
"Frankiin, OF Chicago, said talked to him
about this case. didn't know the man. II IL
| false
Mrs. Julia NJ. Wilson.
a very wcll.drcssed and rcspectablc.looklng
| mlddlc.agcd lady, was called rs first witness.
| She IL the niece OF Luther W. Guiteau; Is now
| n resident of Lcadvllle; her mother was his
sister; witness remembers him since 1888,
| when she was but . years OF age; knew Abram
Guiteau. julius Guitcau, III fact, the entire
family; Abram Guteau frequently visited her
mothers house; the last time witness saw him
was about year before his death.
No Insanity in the Family.
| Witness went on to say that she never heard
| until she came to this trial that her mothers
brother Francis had died in nm asylum; wit
ness mother was delicate, suffering from the
| pulmonary disease incidental TO the duitehu
family; witness was her nurse more than any
other one from her twelfth year until her
death; her mother was n woman OF the rareBt
beauty OF disposition and bcnevolence of char
acter; was highly intellectual, and utterly free
| from any faint OF insanity,
The testimony of this witness was beauti-
fully touching, and her noble and tender
| tribute TO the memory OF her mother moved
| some of the audience to tears, nottceably, one
| OF the guards over Guitenu.
| Mr.. Corkhill continued the examination.
| Witness did not think that the witness Davis,
one of the prisoners witnesses, could have
been possibly present during the last illness OF
| her mother witness never heard her mother
| complain Of fear Of poverty, and IL she had
done so she would certainly have known 1t as
| she and her mother were rs sisters; witness
sstcr, Abbc Maynard, was for nine or ten
| years considered inc brightest meilDcr Oh inc
family, but about the time she was about 10 u
French professor of mesmerism came to Ann
Arbor TO teach and evidence the power OF AMI.
NAL mesmersm; her sister BECAME pupil
| and was very intensely under his infuehcci
she became n perfect slave to the power; she
was never the same after as before, and the
succeeding series OF catalepsy unncrved her
| system.
At this point one OF the jury, wormley, was
| taken sick, and tho proceedings temporarily
ceased until he could consult physician.
| At 1880 proceedings were resumed.
Witness never In her life saw anything In
the least degree irrational In her mother.
| At this point n debate grew up between Judge
Porter and Mr.. Scoville, tho latter objecting To
the admission OF the testimony OF Mrs, Wilson;
to the effect that she had never heard insanity
attributed TO her mother, even before the
period OF her birth. Judge Porter referred Ia
Guiteau as n "criminal."
Guitcau Snapped Out.
'Judge Porter, am not criminal! ] oh
icct TO the use of the term You better save
your thunder for the jury"
Witness never heard--as had been testified
| TO by witnesses for defenso-that her mothers
sister was insane; the statement was not true
witness took her sister Abbic in 1874 TO Kala
| mazoo after consultation with her physicians
and left her at the asylum for imbeciles there
although she Is not entirely so; she seems Il
be childish; she has n child's mind In an old
body.
The witness described her visits TO her sis
ter in n beautiful and Characteristic manner
her manner ut the asylum when she secs
hcr-her style of conversational so touching
manner that there were many eyes met with
tears IN the courtroom.
Cross-examned by Mr.. ScOvllc Witness
does not remember having over told n daugh
ter of Luther W. Guiteau that her father hdt
acted In manner Mt Il prnycr'niccting Amos
i frantic.
Here Mrs Scovillc, with frown, whispere,
To her husband "She did say so. She tolt
mo So
Witness stated that one of the characteristics
, of the Gulteau family Is the religious spirl
imbuing all OF its members; has prejudic,
against the charge of insanity againstth the fam
lily, not on her own account, but because 1t II
untrue and might have deleterious efrec
, upon the younger members OF the family.
At this point
Mrs. ScOyille Began TO Weep.
hiding her face behind her fan, and weeping
bitterly.
Witness" During the period of her siste
Abbic's mesmcric Influence, could, by merel,
raising her finger, without calling after her
; cause her to pause In the street when half
block OFF"
Hero her testimony closed.
Mr.. John W. Guitcau, brother OF the prisoner
: arose Mt this point TO protest against the coun
sci for the defense oternally Juggling In mem
bers of the family to induce the Idea that
was tainted with insanity.
Mr.. Scoville demanded from the Court that
he was conducting tho case, that he should b
preserved from the Interruptions Of Mr. join