Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-12-07
NO. 4

fication at fighting sham duel. Be-
sides Abbey Maynard, daughter, his
aunt Julia and Augustus Parker, who
was a cousin, witness had never heard
any other case of insanity in the tami-
".
Mr.. Scoville-W ha- is your opinion
now as to your fathers sanity?
Al think he was sane.
Q-W hat do YOU mean by saying
your brother was possessed of demon
or deyil p?
A-The religious theory is that
there are two forces In the universe,
one under Satan or the devil, and one
under God or Jesus Christ Ny faith
er held the view that there were living
in the world those who were seized of
the devil or of Satan, and Of Christ or
God He believed these two forces
were at war, one with the other, and
at present and since the fall of man
Satan had to a great extent dominion
of the earth, to possess himself Of all
those he could, and he did possess
himself of all those who were not abb
solute believers in the Lord Jesus
Christ as the Savior, and who had not
been saved from the power of sin by a
complete union with the Lord and
Jesus Christ that all evil, all deformi-
ty, all inirmity, was the result of sin,
or the admission of those who had free
will that they were under the dominion
of Satan or an evil spirit, or of evil
nature. That was my fathers theo-
logical view. 1t was my brothers.,
and is mine, and so believed at some
time in my brothers. life, as he had a
free will to choose good or evil, he
must have, through his evil, through
his wilfulness, through his slubborness,
through his preversity of nature, al
lowed Satan to gain such control over
him that he was under the power of
Satan that idea is the one on which
| based my opinion theat my brother
was really responsible to God, but
perhaps not responsible according to
human or legal responsibility, being in
one sense insane.
The prisoner-You have that thing
wrong side up.
Witness-Perhaps | have
The prisoner-That's a very poor
theological position for you to take.
Coming back to the subject of his
his uncle, Abraham Guiteau, witness
stated that when he saw him last, in
1867, he was off his base very badly
He was a 'gassy, blowhardy' man.
Witness would have said of him, he
was little weak in his upper story
He remembered his brother in his in
fancy He was so nervous he could
not keep still for five minutes. HIS
father once offered him ten cents if be
would do so, and be did not get the
money. His mother had saltrheum
very badly; that disease affected wit
ness and his sister. He never heard
of it in the prisoner.
A LOVE ADVENTURE.
Sarah Parker, Chicago, widow Of
Augustus, and cousin of the prisoner,
testified her husband died in an insane
asylum The prisoner and his wife
came to. her house in Chicago. Wit
ness had then two children, son and
daughter, twelve and thirteen years
old. She had requested the prisoner
to cease visiting at her house, because
he had proposed to educate her daugh-
ter so as to marry her. This was in
1876, soon after her husband became
insane The prisoner seemed to have
fallen very desperately in love with her
little daughter and to want to marry
her.
"A very common form of insanity
Mr.. Davidge put in.
And she was very handsome girl
too said the prisoner.
Her little daughter complained to
witness that the prisoner used to fol-
low her on the street, wanting to talk
to her, and she was afraid to go out
alone Her daughter thought him
crazy, and told her so. Witness
thought him crazy, and thought so
when she first saw him, ten or eleven
years ago She thought then his mind
was cracked
The prisoner-They were very poor
and | used to GO down there and give
them money and they appreciated that
very much Incidentally | became
pleased with the little girl, who was
very smart. She was too young, how
ever
Bernard Jones, of Chicago, who in
1878 had boarded at the same house
with Guiteau, and been one of the
board of trustees who had supervision
over the insane asylum at Jacksonville,
considered Guiteau of unsound mind,
and what some authorities would call
in state of incipient insanity.
On cross-examination witness stated
that in 1873 he had paid several visits
to Guiteau for the purpose of helping
him out of difficulty, something in re-
gard to collecting money and not pay
ing it over.
The prisoner-That part of the state
men: is incorrect. 1t is enormous. |
boarded some years ago in the same
house with him. 1t was high-toned
place in Michigan avenue, Chicago,
and l paid my board. Probably he
and other people thought l was very
cranky at that time.
THE PRISONER ON THE STAND.
A buzz of expectancy ran through
the assemblage as Mr. Scoville asked
the prisoner to be sworn. The priso-
ner nervously proceeded to the stand
in custody of two deputy marshals and
the oath was administered to him. He
then whispered few words to the
policemen who stood near the witness
box, and Immediately three deputies
ranged themselves shoulder to shoul-
der behind the prisoner, who, apparent
ly more at ease, said inquiringly to the
Court, 4 can sit down" Yes re-
piled the Court. and the prisoner seat