The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-01

insane on Chat point. HIS father was
all religion, though of queer kind, and
he fell into his ways. Was in dead
earnest until he got into Beecher's
church, and he added "Beecher was
yiTtuOus then" Amid the laugh that
| followed recess was taken.
TUESDAY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-After recess
the prisoner resumed the stand and reit-
Grated his disgust of the Oneida cOmmu-
| nifty, recOunted his efforts to start the
TheOcrat, and failure, and return to the
community and principles. He was so
haunted he feared he would be damned,
and intended his paper should be the
| organ of the Deity and church, beneYO-
| lent associations, etc. He remained at
the community one year. Once, while
there, he threatened to blow them up,
but finally decided to have nothing to
do with the cursed thing. At this point
Guiteau made speech to the crowd in
court, that he was slave while there,
and thought he would go to hell if he
recanted the doctrines, and was almost
"cranked man." and while he did not
know but that he was going to hell, he
went to New York instead. Under the
influence of christian associations the
scales were removed from his eyes, and
he applied for editorial positions on the
n. Y. Tribune and the Independent, and
in New Haven, but all were crammed,
jammed full. Guiteau continued: Was
admitted to the bar in 1868; ;,had plenty
of business, which was SecGred mainly
on his personal appearance; remained
in Chicago till 1871; was there at the
time of the fire; came to New York and
was arrested for not paying board bill;
was kept in the TOmbs 20 days; was not
arraigned, and never was until the pres
ent case; suffered great mental agony;
the lowest New York bummeTs We're put
in his cell; after that he resumed the
law business at Chicago, and tried to
purchase the Chicago Inter-Ocean; of
feTed to make one man Governor of IL
linOis if he would advance part of $75-
600; got $25 out of his old friend Charlie
Reed, and had arranged about buildings,
press and dispatches, &C., and newspa-
per men favored the scheme. About
this time he sued the n. Y. Herald for
$4,000 damages. This was a cranky
proceeding.
WEDNESDAY.
WASHINGTON, November 30.-The spe-
cial feature of the court room this
morning was the unusual number of
insanity experts present to observe the
demeanOr of the prisoner. Guiteau re-
sumed the witness stand and identified
several posters and programmes relat-
ing to his lectures.
The two books written by Guiteau
were presented and a desperate Objec-
tiOn was raised by the prosecution.
Guiteau was allowed to read selections
therefrOm. He read paragraph de-
scribing the preaching and abuse of the
apostle Paul, saying: That's just the
way / did" Said he wrote his cam
paign speech on the suppOsitiOn that
Grant would be nominated, and when
Garfield was nominated he had to
change it all. General Arthur had it
printed. He undertook to deliver it at
| POughkeepsie, but it rained, and no one
came; and at Saratoga it was too hot.
Then he sent it all over the country,
and it was printed in some of the pa
pers. He only had one assignment to
speak for the Republican National, and
that was at Twenty-fifth street, New
York. He only spoke few minutes, as
he did not like the crowd, and gave
copies of his speech to the reporters. He
was on free and easy terms with Jewell,
Arthur and others, and gave Garfield a
| copy of his speech in New York, August
Sth. Saw Garfield in the White House,
and applied for the Paris consulate.
Had no subsequent interview with
him. Saw Blaine frequently and urged
| his claims. Blaine was pleasant, eX-
cept the last time he saw him,
when Blaine said: "Never speak to
me on the subject again. 1t hurt his
feelings and he tried to see Gar
field but failed. He wrote Garfield many
| letters but got no satisfaction. Was
worried over the political situation, and
thought the nation was coming to grief.
The newspapers had the same idea.
Guiteau here attempted to read news
paper extracts, but the prosecutor OBJ
| jected. Guiteau said he would like to
refresh his memory, but the court ruled
| that the articles could not be read. Gui-
teau continued his recital and said one
night he went to bed greatly depressed,
and finally the thought came to him
that if Garfield was removed all would
| be well. By June 1 his mind was fully
] made up that this was necessary, and
| that the Lord had inspired him to do
the act because he had the brains and
nerve, and thought the same to-day. He
| believed also that God intended thus to
| advertise his book, written to save souls.
| At this point Guiteau was very dramatic
and emphasized with his fist. He had
no doubt of the divinity of inspiration,
and if God did not intend him to do so
he would have interpOsed to prevent the
act. He had prayed God to interfere if
his inspiration was not divine. He then
passed on to his Jail experience, and
complained that he was shut off from
all reporters except Bailey, whom he
supposed was a Herald man, but found
| afterwards was COrkhilIs stenOgrapher.
Gave him forty columns of his life,
and only seven were printed. Court ad-
jOurned one hour for recess.