Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-12-15
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VI pICSSNILS hltuSSs. 1uo COii y
was about to announce the usual recess, when
John W. Guiteau arose and said: ''Your
honor, greatly desire TO make personal ex-
PLANTATION. My father is dead-"Gaitesu broke
in, interrupting him: 'Oh! shut up! and sit
doEn! You have been vindicated" Davidge
here objected to any more side scenes. The
prisoner had continually been allowed to in
would soon become farce. Judge Cox settle d
the matter by saying: II see 10 occasion /.
Guitesu, for any explanation ON your par, '
and the recess was then taken.
Frank Bartlett. of Chicago. wss
called He knew Mr.. aud Ms.
st Scoville's summer residence in 1875. "ihis
man never saw me but once, interrupted Gui-
teau. The wife of Mr.. Bart ett testified il The
same way. Howard Dunham, of Boston, testi-
fed to Guiteau's sanity.
Scoville read the answer of President arthur
to the rnterrogatorles. To the first and second
questions, whether he knew the prisoner and
how often he had sNen him, the president re-
pllei that he knew him; that he has seen him
at least ten times, possibly twenty times To
the question whether he had ever converse d
with him, he replied: "No, excepting to re-
turn the ordinary solutions OF the day, and
once or twice in answer to his request to be
employed IN the campaign as a speaker by the
republican state committee, of which was
Chairman" To the question what political
service the prisoner rendered the
republican party during the presi-
dental campaign the answer was, None, that
l know Of" The fourth question was whether
or not anything IL the prisoners relations 10
himself, Gen Grant, Senator Conkling or any
other of the republican party to furnish him
with any ground for supposing that he would
receive political position. The answer is
no.
The Pris ,ner-Thst is matter of opinion.
The last question WAS: Did you ever give
nm any reason to think he could have snv DO
htic&l or personal influence with you?" The
answer is: Il never did. o."
The Prlsoner-He never had occasion to.
The next witness was Rev. R. A Macarthur.
pastor OF Calvary Baptist church, New York.
As soon as heiwas sworn she prisoner remarked:
Il know Dr.. McArtbur very ell. He is a nice
fellow; very high toned in every way I owe
him S9o." The witness began to relate how
the prisoner introduced himself and wife to ohim
(the witness) at the close OF the service one Sun
day, and at the same time presented letter Of
dismissal from the First Baptist church. Chi
eago.
The witness told of the prisoner and wife be-
ing received into the fellowship of the church
ey, handing him promissory note
of the prisoner for S1CO. About
the 3Oth of April, 1871, he was sum
moned to appear before the advisory commit
tee TO answer the charge of gross immortality,
There were three counts n the charge: First.
that he took money which his wife earned nv
working ii hotel in the country and which
was remitted to him tosssistin supporting him.
and spent in dissipation with other women.
The second count was that he had been guilty
of frequent acts of violation of his marriage
vows
The Prisoner (agan breaking in)-I ONLY mar
ried that woman on ten hours notice. and that
is reason enough why l should not live with
her.
The Witness-The third count was that az
result of these various acts OF nfideiity, be was
suffering from vile and lOathsome Liseasa
The Prisoner-That's false
The Winess-[ recited these charges to the
prisoner and he acknowledged the truth of
every one of them. He stated that his excuse
was that his wife was absent; that natures de-
mand5 had to be met and he could not resist
the enticements of lewd women on the streets.
The District Attorney-We present this
testimony because we want to show that what
the defense calls insanity is nothing more than
devilishness.
TWAS with some difficulty that the applause
that greeted this remark could be Quilted
When order was restored the
the witness rensnmed his tesh-
mOny, and said 1t never occurred to him for 8
moment that the prisoner was other than sane
When the cross-eXamination was closed. the
prisoner. looking up at the cleck, announced
that it was the cockcrow, and time to go home.
Rs also inquired "How many more witnesses
lgss that have you, Mr.. Corkhill? 1 think it is
a. outrage on the public II you had to paw
ssne of that money yourself, you would go
slower"
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, DEC. 6.
The testimony of to-day supported admir-
ably the theory of total depravity, and broke
down much of the little left of the original in
sanity theory. Friends Of client and cred
itors, whom he had swindled, ministers of the
gospel, lawyers, doctors, business men, with
one exception, they had the same story to tell
that he was, so far as their observation went,
a shrewd rogue rather than an insane inno-
cent
At the opening Dr. Macarthur, of New York,
again took the stand. Guiteau broke in ex-
citedly, and shouted out: 1T is purely in the
nature of confessional Macarthur is not an
the jury and the American people facts which
told him years ago in regard to my history
The court ruled the evidence could be admitted
as tending to show the general character of the
prisoner.
Corkhil-Did you ever see anything in the
prisoner to indicate insanity?
Answer-No sir, never did
Guiteau here broke into one of his noisy har-
rangues.
Col Corkhill desired the court to restrain the
pr soner, when Guiteau turned to him and said
''You 90 slow Corkhill, you are spotted, and al
soon SIS this business is over the president viii
remove you"
W. S. Caldwell, the physician who treated L
W. Guiteau during his last illness, never de
tected any evidence of any mental unsoundness
George W. Plummer as then called. Guiteal
Immediately shouted: 81 owe this man 500, bu
| it haC-cOst the government $2C o to get him her
Guiteau continually interrupted, and fnall
| the witness said to him: "It seems that your
! close relations with Deity of late have corrupt
| ed your manners" The prisoner laughe'
| heartily at this sally, and said: swell, tha
amt 80 bad, Plummer, for a western man.
did you ever see anything in his conduct tia
| indicated unsoundness of mind?'' was the mex
| question. 'sNo, sir" replied the witness; moth
| ing whatever. He seemed to be man of abi
ity, vain and conceited; but then he had Sat
from New York city, on his card, and we ez
pected the rest" This convulsed the court.
Stephen English of New York, with whor
| Guiteau had an Office in the insurance bushes
was asked if he ever detected any sign of ir
sanity, and replied that on the contrary he wa
| q remarkably clear-headed, shrewd lawyer
! He completely outwitted the witness. Warre
| G. Brown, attorney at Law, of New York, wa
counsel for Mrs Guiteau in obtaining divorc
L
| perfectly sane. The witness was constant
interrupted by the prisoner. The witness col
sidered Guiteau sharp, keen and rational
| Mr.. Mclean Shaw q counsellor of New Yorl
detailed portion of q conversation (errib
in import now, even then not lightly regarded
| between the assassin and himself in 1S7:
wherein Guiteau announced his intentions
winning notoriety if he had to initiate Wilk'
Booth and kill a public man to do it. The al
dience shnddered as Shaw calmly and distinct
related the incident and gave Il
portion of the conversation r
ferred to, while Guiteau grew so excite
that he could scarcely articulate the abusi'
epithets which he showered on Shaw.
DR.. Walter Kempster of the Northern Wi
consin insane hospital and one Of the be
known specialists on nervous and BRAIN diseas
and insanity in this country, who has bee
summoned as an expert, says that he fully b.
lieves that Guiteau Is sane, and that his ecce
tricies in the court are simply acting
Mr.. Henry Morely, of England. recent
said to New York reporter: have be,
greatly struck by the immense size of Il
American stores, especially the dry-goo'
stores. In this city, in Chicago and in [
he large cities, there are dry-goods stor
which are simply immense. There
nothing like them in the old county, la
impressed, too, by the great rush and enc
gy of everybody. Everybody seems I
pet ahead