The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered From All Quartsra.
GUrrEAU,s TRIAL.

Report OF Proeeedinx. the Crinia.a Court
at Washington.
NOVEMBER 16.-The work of getting
a jury was resumed. another venire Of seven
ty-five being present to draw upon The list
of talesmen was almost exhausted before the
cured. The defense made four peremptory
challenges the first hour and a-hah and the
Government one Joseph Prsther, q commits,
1871 as the twelfth juror. The jury is said 70
be above the average in intelligence, and the
the selection. The Court then took q
recess for half an hour, and upon
Si sssed the ooaTs that sss oath
ing done, the District Attorney moved that
opportunity to attend TO their respective bust
ness matters AT this point, scoville rose 70
Sss Sss been
In the morning. being an appeal to the legal
1id 1so nos approve % ~ Of the document, and Wished
this distinctly understood At the conclusion
Of ns se ss ssS not n1 9et N % an
oepted the services Of the counsel. and de.
clared that until he did 30 he would defend
three communicating rooms in the National
Hotel, in which they sleep and pass the time,
separate dlnngoom also also Seinf % cn ror
municate with the outside world until the trial
10 ended.
NOVEMBER 1.-THE District Attor-
ney presented the case of the prosecution to
the jury. During the delivery Of q greater
part of Mr.: CorkhilIs speech Guiteau was an
ing and writing, but hardly word by the Dis
trict Attorney escaped him. Only once did he
threatened TO have him removed If he made
any further interruption. Guiteau promised
oos q Ssne %ss called
TO the witness stand and testified rs follows:
Knew the prisoner at the bar; saw him occac
and May; met the President By appointment
on the morning of the assassination; went
account of being on the side NEXT TO the pave
ment, got out frst rs q matter OF convenience
he took witness arm ,s,t ss they ssss1ded the
thought police oficer, the same oficer who
tfme tE1S When the PRESIDENT turned
TO speak to witness their arms became disen-
as they walked through the ladies' waiting
room they were not arm In arm, but side BY
side Witness had got two thirds acroes the
ton whatever, there was very loud report Of
pistol discharge, followed In very brief In
s ness heard the report % It occurred to him that
Il was some trouble between persons TO whom
they were in no way relsted-some deed Of VI
there might be some danger to the Presi-
did % that the President @ kind of threw Il bis hands
up and said: Ny God what is this7S II seems
TO have been almost between the shots that he
said this. OF course. In 30 exciting and horr-
BILE a scene the witness could only give his inn
preston, not an absolute statement. Then
ing 10 the witness recollection he passed on
the witness right, though the witness Is aware
that this statement must be taken merely as
lowed after the man instinctively, and went,
he supposes, distance OF eight feet The
tne soor @Son se Se 8ans
room % 70 the main I'M room; ~ The = shout came came up; up
We have got him.. Ine witness IounG me
when the witness left. When the witness got
nearly back to him lhe was the first or second
vomiting, and the witness thought at that mo-
ment was unconscious. The witness gave the
information that the man he saw rum and
into the hands of the police was Guiteau. He
recognized the man. He made that statement
erai sherman before the police had discovered
his name OF course, the shot being behind
with the pistol in his hand. He did not, in rum
ming, have the pistol exposed. witness further
stated in response TO q question Of the District
State Department twenty or twenty-five times
fheprisoner was very persistent applicant for
never gave him the slightest encouragement
that he would receive the appointment; re-
members that after persistent and repeated
his receiving the appointment and that of
continue i biz visits. seoretary Blaine, after
being cross-examined by Guiteaus counsel,
left the stand at ls 20 and the court adjourned
for half an hour. Upon reassemb bling of court
the resident Minister of Venezuela was called
to the stand and examined, but nothing was
Hshed Mis- Sarah R. White. mstron of the
Baltimore & Potomac Depot in the ladies'
waiting room, was next called. She explained
the circumstances of the assassination in de-
tail, substantially as published In her state
ment obtained soon after the shooting. She
the shot. Guiteau, she said, was only about
ave feet back OF the President when he fired
Baitimore b tim % Potomao Of Railroad iT Ss Company, % Ins
Washington, testified that he saw Gufteau on
tn, the morning Of Of the I'd Of . July; Hs & witnessed
rushed from his ONCE out into the corridor,
and as Guiteau was fleeing seized him and
Ger. Judson w. wheelock. of Virginia, George
W. Adams, publisher OF the Evening Stdr, and
Jacob smith, nit 1snitof OF the 81 ratrosS ,s depot
Court then adjourned.
NOVEMBER 1S.-Upon opening court
Mr.. Scoville requested the Court to take some
measures to prevent the prisoner from giving
TO the public his unauthorized communications
and also to prevent the annoying Interruptions
Scoviile' remarks the prisoners face had been
suffused with anger, and at their conclusion.
without rising from the chair, he cried exci-
tedly: Mr.. Scoville talks one thing to me In
private and another in public. Last night he
sp-nt an hour In jail with me, and showed q
aotpropose to put my case in his hands he is
no lawyer and no politician; 1want hrst-class
talent in this business, and am going to have
IL, or there's going to be trouble" After some
more talk of q like character, the Court told
the prisoner th.-t on several occasions in the
been, on account of disorderly conduct, re-
moved from the court and the case confined
In bis absence. The court would not resort to
that unless IL became necessary, but he ad-
case required 1t It would be done. The Court
oner could be heard in his defense, but until
that time he must preserve peace After O
he had had his % say, and respsed into oompara- Q m ara
tive quiet Ella NJ. Ridgely testified to hear
ing the conversation between Guiteau and the
be driven to the cemetery. She also witnessed
the shooting, and gave her evidence in a clear
cross-questioned by scoyille, but adhered
strictly, In every particular, TO the evidence
shooting. the relative positions Of the parties
at the time each shot was fired, and was posi-
tive the first shot took effect, as the President
threw up his hands and commenced to siRk
down. At the second shot Guiteau stepped
two or three steps nearer and held his arm
one yet examined upon the incidents of the
shooting, Several other witnesses who witt
nected therewith. Patrick Kearney, the no.
hceman who arrested Guiteau, described mi-
nutely the arrival of the Presidents carriage
and entrance into tho depot, his evidence in
this particular exactly oorroborating that of
Secretary Blaine. Soon after the President
passed into the depot he heard shots and rush
ing In seized the man who was running out.
NOVEMBER 19.-The first witness ex-
amined was George G. Maynard, who testified
to lending the prisoner money on two occa-
sions. auiteau protested against this line of
evidence. He didn't think It was anybody's
business whether he owed twenty-five dollars
or some one owed him. District Attorney
Corkhin desired to prove by witness that Quit
eau borrowed fifteen dollars with which he
bought the revolver. The next witness was
John O'Mera, keeper OF the gunstore where
Guiteau purchased the pistol with which he
shot the President The prisoner paid ten doE
iady's penknife. Colonel A. s. Rockwell, the
next witness, began to detail occurrences at
the depot, when Scoville interposed, ac-
knovledging the killing. Guiteau quickly
shouted. "No. your Honor, we acknowledge