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| Witness I'm reply to the question: )-"In q
group of which that young man imakes one,
| the other four will be pretty SAFE" Witness
| thought person acting under inspiration to
| from the commission OF that act through any
consideration of personal harm to other per-
sons.
Guiteau-"Oh, you are talking about
| cranks, now. don't belong to that school" ("
Witness visited the prisoner in his cell at
| the Jail, remaining two hours and making the
| usual mental examination in such cases. He
| talked over with the prisoner all the main In
| cidents of his life up to and including the
shooting of the president. The prisoner al
| ways speaks of the act as 'my conception" "
and 81 conceived the removal of the presi-
dent" Witness asked why, if his act was
the Almighty's and he was simply the agent,
he was so particular as to practice his aim,
and why he did not trust the details to the
Almighty, and the prisoner hesitated, flushed
little, and said: "The Almighty often trusts
details to his agents. Witness talked
at considerable length with the
and asked him what plans or expectations he
had for the future, and his reply was to the
effect that, while he did not consider himself,
he had studied up the subject of insanity and
believed he would be favored bya jury to be
legally insane at the time of the commission
of the act, and would be acquitted. Here
asked: "What do you suppose will be done
with you?" and he replied: 81 will be sent to
an insane asylum, and I find that, under the
sion of lunacy to pass upon my case, and of
course they will find me sane, and I will be
discharged.
Witness believed from his examination and
observation of the prisoner in the court that
he is perfectly sane man. Witness then pro-
ceeded at some length to give reasons for his
opinion, using the expression, 81 have fire.
quently noticed that his most violent Interrupt
tions have been made when the weight Of
evidence has been against him.
Counsel for the defense objected that the
witness was usurplng the functions of the
jury, who alone could pass upon the fact that
evidence was for or against the prisoner.
The court overruIed the objection and an
exception wrs noted by the defense.
Guiteau, who had kept unusually quiet all
through the morning, here addressed the wit
ness, speaking without any show OF excite
ment: "You are making great ado about
about Abraham. Get your money and go
home"
Witness continued to closely analyze the
conduct and remarks of the prisoner during
the trial, and concluded he had besn playing
part ever since the first day. At the outset,
the prisoner, he said, had directed all his abuse
against one of the counsel, and afterward
against all of them.
Guiteau-"Well, you see, doctor, Corkhill
has corrupted the rest of them. Evil CON-
munications, you know, corrupt good man
ners.h
The first hypothetical question of the prose.
tion was read, and objection made by the de-
tense to the clause: "Assume that he raised
an axe to his sister," which act the prisoner
denies, on the ground that witness could not
be asked to pass upon hypothetical question
containing two propositions Numerically op-
posite. After argument the court sustained
the objection. The prosecution modified the
question, and in a modified form it was put to
the witness. He replied: 81 believe the pris-
oner to have been sane" Objection to the
question and reply was noted by the defence.
Recess.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
After recess DR.. Mcdonald again took the
stand. Guiteau, who had just taken seat,
looked over to the jury and said: "These ex.
perts are doing this business with good deal
of parrot-like talk. DR.. Mcdonald deviated
somewhat from the course pursued by the rest
of them. I deem it but just to myself to say
that did not say to him that had examined
the law in regard to this matter"
Corkhill then read a hypothetical qustion,
npon which Guiteau commented en- passant
with which expressions as ssThat is absolutely
false" "That Is that fellow Shaw's lie,"
That is all rubbish" "It is nobody's business
where got the money!" "I did not kill him,
the doctors killed him." etc.
Witness answered, "Assuming the facts set
forth to be true, and adding that statement to
the Others, it strengthens my opinion that the
man was sane on the I'd day of july"
Exception to the question and to the answer
was noted by the defense.
Col. Reed conducted cross-examination,
and proposed series of hypothetical ques-
prisoner showing that such acts and such
conduct would not be consistent with the the
ory of sanity. Witness admitted that insane
persons were more liable to be adjudged sane
than sane persons were to be adjuged insane.
ScovilIe took up the cross-examinatiou and
questioned witness at some length relative to
the symptoms and causes of in
sanity. Witness stated it was
the result of a diseased brain, and was
effect, and cannot excitation of emotions, or
worry and care and anxiety, overturn the rea-
son and cause disease of the brain?" Witness
admitted that such might be the case with
some qualification; that over work, care and
anxiety might produce disease, which with
other causes might lead to insanity, and that
would make necessary disease of the brain and
the disease would in its turn stimulate in-
sanity.
Qnestion-"WeI, now, is it not fact that
you learn that the brain is diseased from evil
dence of unsoundness of the mind," An.
swer-"From that and from physical indica-
tions also."
Pending further examination the court ad.
journed until tomorrow.
WHAT CORKHILL SAYS.
District Attorney Corkhill said tonight that
the government had expected to submit the
Guiteau case to the jury this week, but the
defence having concluded to bring in addi-
tional expert witnesses, he could predict no
date for the trial to end. The prosecution, he
said, had more expert witnesses, and would
put them on the stand to strengthen their
case more fully. Theee witnesses, Col. Cork
hill, said, will testify positively that they con-
slider Guiteau perfectly sane, and that he is
acting the part of a maniac. When the time
comes for delivering the closing argument,
Col. Corkhiil thinks the government can pre-
sent their case in one day, but thinks the de-
fence will require several days time.
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