The Portland daily press., 1881-12-26

Judge Porter interrupted Scoyille two Or
three times. Finally Guiteau said:-"You
seem to have contracted Davidge's disease
diarrh8a; he seems to have lost it in t
night" This elected laugh, second in size,
however, to that which greeted Scoville's
naive remark don't think, Doctor, that
understood that question myself. / didn't pre-
pare it," when DR.. Stearns said that he did
not understand a particular question. After
that Charley Reed asked few questions, in
tended to elicit proofs about insanity IN gener
al, in favor Of the defence.
Porter interrupted TO object to the form or
the substance of almost every question.
"Yon seem to be getting excited again,
Judge, said Guiteau.
Reed asked if the proof of honest belief of
Guiteau in his inspiration did not indicate in
sanity.
DIR. Stearns said that it would not affect his
mind one way or another. A man might en-
tertain mistaken belief without being insane.
The Mormons, Millerites, etc, for instance The
Doctor said to another question that doctors
disagree, and that no one was infallible. To
another he SAID man might be pronounced
sane, and after execution he might, on post
mortem, be proved insane.
Guiteau said:-"Allow me to ask whether
you hold that q man cannot be insane in par
ticular case without being diseased in the
brain?'
"All insanity" said Stearns, after Scoville
had asked the question for Guiteau, sis dis
ease of the brain"
'Then you hold that insanity can't exist
without disease of the brain?" said Guiteau.
Judge Porter told Stearns not to answer any
questions put by the assassin. "Let there be,
he said, "no colloquy between the witness and
the criminal.
81 speak as my own COUNSEL" said Guiteau.
II am not criminal, no more than you are.
You wait until I am convicted; you needn't
talk, Porter. They're saying outside, "Gui-
teau's bigger man than old Porter. That's
fact too."
Porter, who was In bad humor, grew excit-
ed, and said that the Interruptions of the pris-
oner must stop. Anything that he could not
say through his counsel he must say from the
prisoners dock.
Corkhill indorsed this as good suggestion,
and said that he would move to have it carried
out ii Guiteau's interruptions continued. "Un
der the laws of the district the criminals place
is in the dock, and there he should be placed"
Guiteau demonstrated violently that he ap-
peared as his own counsel, that he was not a
convicted criminal, and that the court had no
discretion in the matter.
DIR. Strong, of the Cleveland (Ohio) State In
sane Asylum, was the next witness. He de-
tailed his careful examination and observation
of the prisoner in the Jail and in court.
Guteau interrupted to say, "I'll save you
Tome trouble, doctor; 1 am in good bodily
health and am not insane"
II agree with you in that respect" said the
doctor, quickly. DR.. Strong spoke of the in
teiliaence of the assassin.
"Of course 1 am intelligent" said Guiteau.
81 am no fool the Lord never selects fool to
do his work He gets the best brains, and
then he takes care of the man who does the
work, just as he takes care of me. There is
great deal of rubbish in this case.
Judge Porter here insisted that the rule re-
specting criminals should be enforced; that the
criminal on trial be placed in the criminals
dock. Judge Porter spoke at some length, and
very impressiveiy, in support of his motion,
Guiteau interrupting almost constantly. The
scene was very animated. Judge Porter said
that the self-confessed murderer OF the Presi-
dent ought to be placed in the dock by the
marshal and there kept quiet.
Guiteau insisted that he had right to talk
as his own counsel. He dared Porter to insist
upon his motion. He said to Corkhill, who
came to Porter's assistance here, that he was
fraud, and that he could not place him in the
dock.
Judge Cox said that he had the matter under
consideration. Meantime he would admonish
the prisoner that he must keep quiet.
"I'll do whatever you say, Judge" said Gui-
teau, somewhat awed, aud Dr. Strong went on
with his description of his examinations of the
prisoner. In reply to the prosecutions hypc-
thetical questions, Strong said that he thought
that the prisoner is sane and was sane on the
second OF July. On croSsexamin2tior, Reed
asked him the hypothetical question of the de-
fence. Strong did not want to answer direct
ly. He wanted to say that he did not believe
the assumptions of the question. There was
long Ol5tuS5lOu D6IW6eu GOIIoI anu G66u.
Ccrkhill and Davidge assisted. Judge Cox
compelled the witness to reply. He said that
all these assumptions being true they would
point TO insanity.
''You can stand aside," said Reed.
"Get your $500 and go home, said Guiteau,
who had interrupted counsel and witness again
and again, once referring to the expression of
Porter's face as that of a "catfsh." "These
experrs are all stupid: they're swearing that
was sane en- the I'd of July because am sane
now. They don't know anything, and this man
knows less than the rest. He's very stupid,
and that $500 is before his eyes 80 that he can't
see the truth
Dr. Strong on redirect said he did not be-
lieve the assumptions of the hypothetical ques-
tion of the defence to be true. He did not be-
lieve that Guiteau had ever been insane.
Guiteau asked whether he thought his free
agency was destroyed on the I'd of July.
"Vicious propensities destroy free agency at
any time," was the reply.
Judge Porter commended this answer, and
Guiteau said: you're all badly cranked.
You'll probably end your days. Porter, in an
sylum."
DR.. A. M. Spear, government expert, Of the
Connecticut Hospital for the Insane at Middle
town, CT, was the next witness. He did not
believe in hereditary insanity, but hereditary
tendencies He was for 10 months physician at
Auburn N. Y. He has criminal ward at his
asylum. He found insane criminals to be more
egotistical, more self-willed, more ignorant than
the ordinary lunatic.
Corkbill asked him whether, if a criminal
said that he had committed his crime under the
influence Of an insane delusion, he would con-
slider him insane.
Counsel for defence objected, and the court
ruled it out.
DR.. Spear detailed his examinations of the
prisoner. He said that he considered him sane
now and on the I'd of July.
"Sane now," said Guiteau, shut not on the
I'd of july"
1O,An IL Tor half on,
hour.
After recess, Col Reed conducted the cross
examination of the witness. Guiteau inter
rupted once, and, with some excitement, said:
"These experts may all be very honorable men
but don't care snap for their testimony. L
wouldn't give cent bushel for 1t, whether
for me or against me-"
Judge Cox-Be quiet, prisoner, you have
promised to keep STILL
Guiteau-All right, Judge, but want to get
that idea before the jury
Witness stated that he did not think the pris-
oner had been acting part or feigning in court.
He thought he had been acting purely accord
ing to his natural characteristics.
DR.. Orpheus Evarts, superintendent OF the
private insane asylum at College Hill, o., was
then called. He said: There is no uniformity
of the head, either as regards size or form, IN
either sane or insane persons" Witness hao ex-
amined the prisoner in jail, and conversed WIN
him, and had closely watched his conduct dur
lrldit anu uhu VIC OPtnAoN s"TN
the prisoner, on the I'd of July, was sane
Objection was made by Mr.. Scoyille and over
ruled and exceptions noted.
Guitesu-This is all rubbish. All this nom
sense is to prove that / am sane now, and has
nothing TO do with the I'd of July. These ex-
perts have seen me since the trial began. /
don't claim now, and didn't claim when they
saw me, to bs insane; consequently they as
sumo that I was sane on the I'd OF July. Its
all nonsence.
Upon cross-examination witness stated: did
not believe the prisoner was shamming In the