The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-12-29

On the twenty-eighth day of his trial Guiteau
aTpcaIed in court with his beard Off, his face
having been shavcn to admit of cast of his
features Icing taken by Mills, the sculptor
Mr. Hobbs, one of the jurymen, had lost his
wife, The district attorney Iose, and in ap-
propriato terms referred to the calamity which
had fallen on the juror, and said that the
instincts of humanity required that the juror
be allowed an opportunity of paying proper
respect to the memory of his deceased wife.
He therefore proposed, with the assent of the
prisoner and his counsel that MIR. Hobbs be
permitted TO go home Mr.. Scoville expressed
his full consent to the proposition, and sug-
gested that the juror should not even be incum-
bered by the presence of a bailif. At the
same time he asked the court to admonish all
the jurors not 10 have any communication OF
conversation with outside persons in regard to
the case. Judge Cox said that the bailiffs in
charge of the jury were aware OF the rule, and
enforced it, and that the Jurors themselves
understood it. The prisoner said he had entire
confidence in the honor and integrity of the
jurors. Judge Cox repeated his admoniiion tc
the jurors to hold no communication with any
person outside in reference to the case. Mr.
Scovile stipulated that the warning should
also apply to the daily papers, and that they
should not be read by the jurors. He also
intimated that he desired to put some further
questions to Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Dunmire,
AMI asked that they be not allowed to leave the
home was then duly made and entered, and
the court adjourned for two days.
After the two davs' recess proceedings on
the twenty-ninth day of the trial were begun
by the continuation of the testimony OF DR..
Allan McLane Hamilton, OF New York The
witness was q closs-eXamined by Mr.. Scoville,
and in answer to que>t >tons he said man may
be insane from medical point of view, and
vet be able to distinguish perfectly between
right and wrong. DR.. Worcester, of Bpston,
who had been called two or three weeks ago as
an expert for the defense, and who was abruptly
dismissed by Mr.. Scoville, appeared next as an
expert for the prosecution. He had examined
Guiteau in jail, and watched him and listened
to his utteTances in court for several weeks,
and he thought the prisoner was sane The
prisoner sneeTcd at th:s and asked the doctor
how much he would be paid for that
opinion. The district attorney asked two
long hypothet cal questions, embracing the
prosecutions view of the case, and the
doctor said that, assuming the propositions
to be true, he Thought Gniteau was
sane when he shot the President. Guiteau in
terrupted the reading of these questions with
denials and corrections He insisted that he
was inspired, alleged that District Attorney
Corkhll obtained from him on July 3, through
a deception an interview on the subject, and
complained that Corr hill destroyed his notes of
this Interview, in which the inspiration theory
was stated, and then declared in court that
Uulledu ndu never tnOuSut OF INSPIRATION until
" eeks after the assassination. On the cross
examination of DR.. Worcester it appeared that
he had at first regarded Guiteau as insane, and
had written to Mr.. Scoville asking whether he
could be of use to the prisoner. Guiteau was
in a bad temper and he abused his coun-
sci for the way he conducted the cross
examination until Mr.. Scoville's emo
ton became painfully apparent. Then
Guiteau relented for the moment but after
ward he again called his counsel "a consum-
mate idiot" and quaTeled with his sister,
ending up with the declaration that ii would !
had been well for him had all his relatives |
died twenty years ago. He said eff l were |
indicted for manslaughter and Scovile de- |
Tended me l wouh be hanged for MURDER" /
and ST expect that the Almighty, notwth- |
standing Scoville's asinine character, will see |
that am protected" The days proceedings |
ended with brief examination of Mrs. Dun |
mire, Guiteaus divorced wife, who identified |
Two photographs Of him, taken some years ago,
and denied having said to Mrs. Scoville any
hing about the prisoner being insane.
DR.. Theodore Dimon, of Auburn, N. Y, who
vas brought to Washington as an expert by tb3
lefense, but, like DR.. Worcester, changed ais
yiews after an examination anG observation,
vas put on the stand by the prosecution on the
hirtieth day. and testified that in his opinion
he prisoner was zane. To Colonel Corkhill's
hypothetical questions also his answers were,
Sane" He thought Guiteau's conduct in the
COURTROOM not assumed but the natural out
ONE of his character The prisoners actions
n court were consistent with his nature under =
he circumstances. Guiteau asked the witness