New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-23

he had been inteny listening TO Mr. Scovles speecn
never feign; act myself out. sane or insane
Mr. scovile continuing, said that having been &C
quainted with the defendant since he was a ooy' '"o
first thing he had said when he heard OF the ao'' wa"
"he ia crazy" Just many others had smd; JusC az
President Garfield had said 'whatis the man doing lie
is crazy -; just Secretary Blaine had sald' why wac
this done The man must he crazy"
The District-Attorney-A to say that PresldchI
Garfield never said such a thing; and Secretary b'h
uttered such statement he said nc was S"Ho III
the time.
Mr. scoyille-I only speak from newspaper reports
The Blaine has staed U"
his oath that he believed the man was sane
Mr. scovlle-I saw these things in the newspapers
that is all know about them. merely spoke OF IL az an
illustration il seemed to me that IL was the %
thing that in persons mind.
Continuing the speaker dwet upon the ditcnity OF
person Stimulating insanity. person feigning INSANITY
forgot things and pretended to be muddied anu CON
fused Certainly nothing of that kind could be touhu
against Guiteau He did not profess to forget ahyhs'
the contrary, he professed 10 remember every
person fegning insanity always felt it monument
upon him to be insane all the time, while really IN
sane WAS in different moods at different times Inc
former always besitatcd in speaking, the atter never
The prisoner did not ike stimulating insanity
SKETCH OF THE GUTTEAU FAMILY.
Mr.. scovile then proceeded TO give sketch oi tne
Gueau family and its peculiarities as bearing on the
descent imbucd with the enense religious spirit
which had led half million of tue best people OF france
TO leave their homes and possessions and out des
tute foreign lands The prisoners grandiather was
physician who settled in Utica, \. Y. over ninety
years ago-Dr +. Guiteau. He tSeovine qua not knoH
whether he could produce any evidence as 10 the ga
father and grandmother They had ten children, and
some of their very names would show thi5 religious %
tendency. They were, Abraham, i1nther Vhc
prisoners fatncT) Martin dividing Luther's name
between two Of the sons and Calvin. As L, 10 a
portion OF the family lie h,d not oeeh ape 10 W oo',i @
authentic information but he had information as 10 GER
tain members of it Two OF the glrS TeIS & 1a nele 1
in Michigan and Mary married Mr. Parker. J9ha was was
being that her family was going to poorhouse al
though her husband was very sncceSSul ann prosPI
daughter, Abby, who bright, Interesting gfi, uh
fifteen or sixteen years o. age when sne PECAN 10 1 %
irst remark to an acqualntanCe "Pow now f' in
an insane asyiun-hopeiessly insane. Auother daugh
ter Of Mrs Raymond vas partially dei9rm9 one SIU % .,
how far that might OF Importance but he understood
that things had weight on the question ol AeIe
itary insanity Mrs. Parker Gdaryl alter|drd married
music teacher returned to Oswego insane, and ied IN
that condition. He did know what her special delu
was. Mrs Parker had son, Augustus wl3 lhher-
tied musical talent and face OF mis- father ana e III
tant OF blood of his mother He lived III Cmchgo'
and disappotment in getting the piano agency ot & ,e
Deckers, Of New-fork threw ms reason osa" ann
It's base he the became VoiSh ksSnS Of "SS Cook
County and died there This accounted for two Of
As TO the otner three sisters he knew very tc aoout
them. lie expected witnessds IN rgard TO tnrm;
Abraham, lived till he was about sixty years OF
age, and died in Freeport III Duahg Ihe eltt m.ter
of his life he what might be called Iuo'-
not insane but weak-minded, having no control over
himself ana he died in that condition. Ihe second son
Rood of iJcs, n became disappointed in love
| and challenged his rival to hgnt duel; ING
with with biank '%, cartridges When he came
know that his mortication and "i7apRont%nehI mem & WYl
walls; nut he died IN the Blooiningdae Asylum New
York, in the year 1929, when he was twchyhhe years
oi age. -
PECUIIARITIEs OF GUITEAU's FATHER.
Another Of the five brothers, Luther, the prs-
oners father and the last survivor o. the ten Children
While Luther not insane, he WAS eccentric ana pccu
LIAR especially in his religious views. He was man OF
undoubted integrity, Of excellent disposition, and one
whom everybody loved. On the subject Of religion
however, nc unreasonably strange gong TO huch
extremes as might properly be termed insanity one O
his beliefs was for many years that he had como 10 such
a vital union with Christ that ne was part anu
parcel OF the saviour himself spiritually and that their
nn0n was so complete mat he would 1--we on forever,
lust tine same the Saviour lie imagined mat MS
daughter III whom bs heart seemed entirely bound up,
was going commit suicide and hc greycd over IL ahd
cried over IL ike child At another time ne Ima-ne
Iat great Masonic ceebra iOn that was III pfepirA ION
at Chicago and wuIc he read OF In the newspapers was
Tor tne purpose 0f mis- funeral ana III travelling RON
Wisconsin, to Freep0r Ill., ne refused 10 20 lhroukh
Chicago because he did not waht any such drmuh'i"-
lion made over him. IIo died IN 1880 during the last
| time These were the facts as 10 the iamuy history
| Now he to the prisoner himself , "a.
"A aGnldUie woman, gCitic ana ah''-
tiOuatc, and his father had the same iTds. nc va,
| ~ "A
freupor III lhe Ino,heT vas fi,hy olo "t L. - -
| seven children, and died a. tnlry-thrce hhc was
twenty eight when TIE pris Iner wa' born BeLOie hlH
6irtD She was sick with few that the physicians
deemed il necessary 10 shave her head Her hair was
shaved of close, and would De shown here a. u was
takpn from her head forty years ago. The prisoner
born during that sickness Afterward TWO more children
were born one them dciOrmed, AMI both died III III
fancy The mother died when the defendant was seven
| years old -, .,.,, -, ,,, .,
he was young His father an intense religonlst ana
did not give proper attention 70 the Doy pnt te
hell 81,
gentle and loving He had no way"afd ways or aDs;
For about year lived with his sister III Chicago ana
went TO school there when he abont fourteen. Then
his father married again, ana the ron went nome 10 nNe
with his stepnother, and helped MS iather who was
then Recorder OF Freeport There nc worked Tor two
years. and mp to that time there nothing specially
noticeable about hn except ono OF two niue ciFcni.
| stances He could not pronounce the word qudi
but always called 1t pail; 40, IN the niue Tnhg
| Come along old Dan Tucker he would always say
Ped along" As he old enough to know better hi'
father day him such whipping "a an intensely
religious man can give anu hhe'atcy 'i'g' m ~ ~
looked up at his father aud sald uncpustlOnsy req
| along" At the age or eighteen he began 10 iee the
want Of an education and ambition Dtgan 10 SUI MN,
lie also began have his attnniiOn directed t0 religious
matters His fathers attention mad been directed 90 the
| doctrines OF the Oneida community h9 o%enJ' % ~, ~,
| in their doctrine OF community Oh S0ods anu oi
developed in that aud that they cohd bet
that way. The father, in fact had gone lrow one do-
nomination another finding none OF them hillciehly
advanced To- come up 70 mis- IDEAS lie had hhahy strGJH
tne Oneida idea and 1t seemed To commend sel 10 MS
mind. lie had taken their publications and had Decn
wanted to bc a lawyer and wished TO go to SCHOOL lie
had 81 900 left Ein by his maternal grandfather, ana
finally his told him that might take TINS money
and go school Thereupon be went To Ann Arnor to
| enter the university, but h0 was not qualified,
| and he went to the High School, where hc
| remained for some months, studying AT
the same time lis lessons tine blc, and the doctrines
| Of the Oneida Community. Finally he lett school uud
| went tu Oneida where he joined the Community aud
put his money $500 into y. hc inlly believed that
that wan the only road to Heaven. That wHs IA June
1850, ANA ne stayed there TIL April, lsGJ all the time
thai nc there he convinced mat aer religious
system the correct one that II was dcbgned 10 sup
plant all the Kingdoms OF the world, aud that ne himself
yas u bc the ruler and head of system lie DO
leved that thoroughly and clearly. That might be
said 10 cgOtiSm. Insane people were often pos
sesscd Of extreme egOtsn Lawrence, Who attempted u
assassnae President jackson, believed tnet le MAS cn