The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1881-12-09
SECOND EDITION
eulTEAu ON TRIAL.
A CLOUD OF wITNFssEs CALLED TO
BREAK DOWN MR. scovILLE's
THEORY OF INSANITY. 90"

THEORY OF INSANITY.
WASHINGTON, December 9.--Ihe
court was called to order ct o few
minutes past 10, and shortly after.
wards the prisoner was brought in,
carr ying under his arm the usual
number of newspapers. While the
marshal was taking off his handouts
Guiteau made his first speech Of the
day in allusion to . paragraph in 0
morning paper. 81 see," he said,
"that q crank in Chicago said l talked
with him about this case. don't
know the man at all. 1t is false"
ANOTHER ATTACK ON ,MR. PORTER.
Mr.. Porter-Crime.
Guiteau (angrily)-I object to your
speaking of this matter as q crime or
OF me as criminal until after you
convict me. We've had enough of
this assassination business.
Mr.. Scoville-DId he say substan-
tally this-that he would rather sec
his brother hanged than have heredit>
ary insanity proveds A. He did not.
Guiteau-That's his idea. want
to repudiate his own feeling on this
question. He is no brother to me.
He bears the same name, and that is
all the connection have with him. ]
didn't go his house in Boston but
once. never recognized him as o
brother. He is good fellow. like
him better now than ever befoIs.
The Witness-I think he said after
wards that his opinion had been some-
what modified and that he had come
to think that his brother might be in
sane. .=..l
Guiteau-Supposing he did or did
not, what has that got to do with this
casep
The Witness-What Mr.. Guiteau
said was that there was no we'll
authenticated case OF insanity that
could be proved.
Guiteau-Tbat is false. It has been
shown that two of my cousins are in q
lunatic asylum. Probably I will be
there. soon.
THE PRESIDENTS TESTIMONY.
The District Attorney here sent up
Judge Cox Q communication received
from the President Of the United States,
containing his answers ito Mr.. Scoviils's
questions. The Judge after reading il
handed it down TO Mr.. Scoville.
Guiteau-l sent The President note
this afternoon requesting him not TO ap-
pear in this case and saying that did
not want his answers to the interroga-
tories. / presume he sent this before
he got my note.
The next witness was John Palmer,
proprietor Of the Circular Street House,
6aratoga Springs. The substance OF his
testimony was that the prisoner spent o
week at his house In July, 1880, and left
without paying his bill.
Guiteau-That is all he knows abost
me. presume that Ii has cost the Gov
ernment S100 to prove that point. 1t is
great waists of public money. / went
to Saratoga to deliver 4 lecture and, as
usual, l didn't draw and got out of
money.
il Mr.. Seoville read to the Court the
answers of President Arthur to the in
terrogatories. To the first and second
questions whether he knew the prisoner
and how often he had seen him, the
President replied that lie knows him;
that he has seen him at least ten times
and possibly twenty times. To the Ques-
tion as to Wheeler he had ever conversed
with h.m, he replies: "No, excepting
to return the ordinary salltations OF the
day aud once or twice in answer to his
request TO be employed In the campaign
as speaker by the Republican State
Committee, Of which l was Chairman"
To the question what political service
the prisoner had rendered to the Repub.
lican party during the last Presidential
campaign, the answer is, "None that
know Of" The fifth question was
whether there was anything in The pris-
oner's relations 70 himself or to General
Grant or 10 Senator Conkling or any
other leader Of the Republican party
socially or politically, TO furnish him
with any ground for supposing that he
would receive any political preferment.
The answer ls "No."
. Guiteau-That is matter Of opin.
: ion.
, The last question was "Did you
: ever give him any reason TO think he
. could have any political or personal
influence with youP" The answer is
81 never did,"
. Guiteau-He never had occasion to.
The President adds to his answers
the following 81 have been requested
by counsel for the defense to produce
letter written by the prisoner since
his indictment. That letter was re-
i ceived by me In October last and was
: not preserved. 1 do not recellect its
r contents particularly, excepting that
: it contained some claim of his having
! rendered some important services to
the Republican party during the
Presidential campaign and an appeal
for the postponement of his trial tc
give him time to prepare for his de-
3 fense."
: Guiteau-That is all that there was
. to it.
ANOTHER CREDITOR TURNS UP.
: The next witness was Rev. r. 8.
+ Macarthur, pastor of the Calvary
D Baptist Church, Of New York.
? Guiteau said-I know DIR. MacArs
> thur very well. He is nice, fine fel-
low, very high-toned in every way, ,ane
l owe him $o5.
The witness said: sin the latter
part Of June or the early part Of July,
!, 1879, the prisoner introduced himself
Q and his wife to me at the close OF one
: of the Sunday morning services. He
and his wife had come to try life over
again in New York. introduced