Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-10
GUITEAU.
More Experts Heard for the Pros
ecutiOn.

WASHINGTON, d. c., December g.
The Guiteau trial attracted larger
crowd to>day than for several days.
DR.. Macarthur again took the stand.
Mr.. Scoville addressed the Court and
objected to the character of the evil
dence which had been given by the
witness on the ground that evidence
to any other crimes could not be in
troduced here when the prisoner is
on trial for this particular offense.
He desired that all such evidence
should be stricken out. The Court
ruled that evidence could be admit
ted to show the general character of
the prisoner. The witness then tess
tilted as to interviews with the pris-
oner, and said he never saw any in
dications of insanity in the prisoner
Several other witnesses were exam
ined all of whom testified to the same
effect, and the court then took the
usual recess.
Several witnesses were examined;
all of whom had known Guiteau in
the west or in Boston, and none
supposed him insane, though all
thought him lacking in moral char
acter.
Rev. R. S. Macarthur, pastor of
the Calvary Baptist Church, New
York, testified that Guiteau had
been a member of his church, and
had been cited before the copgrega
ton for immoral conduct.
This witness testimony irritated
Guiteau greatly. Scoville objected
to the admission of this testimony,
when the District Attorney announc
ed that the object was to demon
strate that what the defendant calls
insanity is nothing more than devil.
ish depravity.
The questions put to President
Arthur and his answers were put in
evidence as follows:
DO you know the prisoner in this
case?'
Yes
"How many times and where did
you ever see him?
II have seen him at least ten times
and possibly as often as twenty times
altogether, mostly in and about the
the rooms of the Republican State
Committee in the Fifth avenue hotel,
New York city, in the fall of 1880,
and two or three times in the streets
OF Washingtonin the spring of 1881"
"What conversation, if any, did
you ever have with him.
"None, excepting to return the
ordinary salutations of the day, and
once or twice in answer to his re
quests to be employed in the cam
paign as speaker by the Republican
State Committee, of which I was
chairman"
What political services, if any,
did the prisoner render to the Re-
publican party during the last Presi-
dental campaigns"
"None that | know Of
"Was there ever anything to your
knowledge in his relations to your
self, or to Gen. Grant, or to Senator
Logan, or to any other leader of the
Republican party-socially or poht
lcaily-furnishiDg shadow of rea-
sonable claim on his part for political
preferments?"
'No."
"Did you or not give him any
reason to think that he had or could
have any political OF personal infu-
ence with yous"
81 never did. I have been re-
quested by the counsel for the de-
fense to produce a letter written by
the prisoner and inclosed to me by
bis counsel since his indictment.
That letter was received by me in
the month of October last, but was
not preserved"
81 do not remember its contents
particularly, excepting that it con-
tanned some claim to have rendered
important services to the Republican
party in the Presidential campaign,
and an appeal for postponement Of
his trial to give him time to prepare
his defense"
The Secretary of the Treasury has
to-day authorized the Assistant