Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-01
NO. 40.

but If the trial cannot 60 on without re-
sort to gagging. it will have to be done.
Even this threat, though it had mo-
mentary effect on the prisoner. could
not entirely suppress him, and he
again denied the conversation detailed
by the witness, who was "a very good
fellow but wrong there"
Il am going to have the facts in this
case" he continued, "and nothing but
the facts. | want Judge and jury to de-
eide upon the facts and upon nothing
else" "Witness is entirely erroneous in
his memory"
Davidge-'Did Guiteau saw to YOU
he would see his name in the newspa-
pers in a few days as consul to Paris or
that he would make a fuss"
Answer-He said: ''If I do not get
Iit-lrefectingl. 81 will find his exact
language"
The solemnity with which the wit
ness answered questions, his contempt
for the prisoner, the desire which he
| showed to go into particulars, the fact
that he brought with him bundle of
old letters and opened it while on the
witness stand, and the simplicity with
which he stated the condition of his
bank account produced much merri-
ment.
THE ELEVENTH DAY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-The proceed
ings to-day were exceedingly prosy for
a time, until there came a lull, when
Guiteau improved the occasion to make
the first speech Of the day. He said:
81 notice my friend Henry Ward
Beecher is doing some cranky work on
this case. [ used to attend his church
and prayer meetings, and if your honor
knew him as we'll as [ do, you would
not pay any attention to him. There
are good many people who think he
Is badly cranked socially, and [ think
that Mrs. Tilton told the truth and that
he lied about it, and | tell him so pub
licly."
MRS. SCOvILLE
was then called and testified as follows.
When Charles was twelve years old he
lived with witness for year in Chica-
go, where he went to school. She recol-
lected nothing peculiar about him then,
except he was very affectionate, and
she was very much attached to him.
Five or six years later he went to Ann
ArbOr to attend school; she went to Ann
Arbor to see him, as she had been in
formed he was going on worse than her
father had ever done. She found he
had abandoned studies and was giving
his whole time and attention studying
the publications of the Oneida commu-
nifty. She argued with him for the whole
evening. appealing to him to go on
quietly like other young men, and give
up all that stuff. Her appeals had no
effect upon him, however, and she
made up her mind he was crazy. She
told her uncle who lived at Ann Arbor,
to pay no more attention to him, but
let him go his own way, as he was clear
gone daft. She afterwards visited him
at the Oneida community, but could
hardly have any conversation with him
as they were not left alone moment
together. She noticed he acted like a
person who had been bewildered, struck
on the head, or had partly lost his
mind.
The next witness was
SENATOR JOHN A. LOGAN,
of Illinois. As he was sworn the pris-
Oner greeted him with "How are you,
Mr.. Senator, [ am glad to see you;" but
the greeting met no response.
The senator's testimony was unim-
portant and has been substantially
published, in the form of an interview,
heretofore. When asked to give an
opinion in accordance with his observa-
tions Of the prisoner, he said: thought
there was some arrangement in his
mental organization, but to what ex-
tent [ could not say. When l went
down to breakfast one morning | saw
him at the table as boarder. [
called the landlady and asked
her if she knew that gentleman.
She mentioned his name and said he
had told her he was a constituent of
mine.
Q.-What was your expression of
opinion to the landlady at that time?
Al said this: 81 don't think he is
a proper person to have n your board
ing house" She asked ''Why?"
said II think he is little off in his
head" or some language of that kind.
She asked what meant, and said /
| thought he was kind of crazy and she
had better not have him in her board
Ing house. That is about the conver-
sation we had at that time.
The cross-examinatiOn was very
brief and no new points developed.