Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
CONTINUATION OF GUITEAU'S
TRIAL.
MEDICAL EXPERTS BEING Ex-
AHMED.
They Generally Pronounce tho
Prisoner Sane.
Great Agitation I'm Diplomatic
Circles.
RIpplEBERGER TO CARVE OUT A COURSE
FOR HIMSELF.
MEDICAL EXPERTS BEING Ex-
AMIN Ed.
They Generally Pronounce tn
Prisoner Sane.
Great Agitation I'm Diplomatic
Circles.


ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-On the opening Of the
Guiteau trial this forenoon, DR.. Hamilton of
New York took the stand. Scoville desired to
have the other experts excluded while the
witness was giving his testimony, but the
Court ruled against him. During the argument
Davidge was interrupted by Guiteau, who said:
81 will cut this short, Judge, by saying that
AIN perfectly willing to have them here. L
want them to learn all they can. l have so
much confidence in their honor and integrity
that
Davidge-That il precisely what I am COM
ing to.
G~uiteau-You are on the right track. Judge;
I'll take you on my side. You are engaged for
my side of this case.
The witness was questioned at great length
relative to the operation of mind, Significance
Of dreams and unconscious expressions, as in
prosecution protested against the apparently
objective direction of the inquiries.
S~coville, smiling-Well, gentlemen, / told
you 1 did not know much about the subject.
Guitesu-Then you had better get off the case
IL you know nothing about it. 1 think Reed
and / can do better than you, judging by the
way you are laboring. Looking over the notes
which Scoville held in his hand, he continued:
" You've got a lot of stuff there it's not in your
handwriting. l guess it must have been con-
tributed by some one"
Guiteau appeared dissatisfied with the result
of the examination, andinally said to S~coville:
oh, tear that stuff up, Scoville. Send this
man down and call Clarke Mills. He's a good
deal better man for you than this one. He took
q cast of my head the other day, thinking some
people would be interested to see it. He took
u bust of Andrew Jackson, snd he thinks it
greater than Jackson's was. He found one side
of my head badly deficient, though"
The prisoner then branched off on to his in
SEPARATION theory, and ratified on for some time
on his oft-repeated harangue on the subject of
Irresistible pressure.
Davidge asked the witness If people adj
judged medically insane were not capable of
judging between right and wrong?
Guiteau, quickly looking up from his writ
ing, said: What bearing has that? When a
person is controlled by an irresistible i'm
pulse. that's all there is in this case striking
the table violently and all this talk don't
amount to anything"
There are a great many insane medically who
appreciate the difference between right and
wrong. In nearly all the asylums the system
of rewards and punishments is in vogue in
dealing with the insane. showing that 1t is
recognized in the treatment of the insane that
they discriminate and control their actions.
On the whole this witness testimony bore
against the theory of insanity, and was fairly
well sustained.
Doctor Worcester of Massachusetts,, who re-
fused when upon the stand for the defense to
answer n hypothetical question proposed by
Scovilie, testified in his opinion the prisoner
was a sane man.
Guiteau (sharply)-How much do you ex-
pect to get for that opinionp 1 suppose 1t will
be worth $500 to you. That 10 the way Cork
hill is running, but I don't think it will be
worth q snap to the jury; not a snap. sir.
Corkhill then read a hypothetical question,
which covered the material facts in the pris-
oner's history from boyhood down to his act
on the second of July, and inquired: Assum-
ing all these facts to be true, in your opinion
was the prisoner sane or insane when he killed
the President
Answer-I believe him to have been sane.
Guiteau. speeringly-Yes, sir, and you ex.
pect to get $500 for your opinion.
All through the reading Of the hypothetical
questions Guiteau continually shouted: That's
false, absolutely false" At one time hi said;
" That's false; get the facts right for your
Porter must have got that stuff up for you.
Corkhill. You certainly have not got brains
enough. I want to say right here. Colonel
Corkhill has made a very good outward state
upon what was going on in my mind at that
time. That 10 a matter for the jury, Court,
Deity and me to decide-we four"
Col. Corkhill then read another Hypothetical
question, setting forth In its most unenviable
light the career of Guiteau. The prisoner
WINGED under the record, but confined himself
to q sort Of growl. IN concluding reading,
Corkhill again inquired Of the witness: "Do
on the I'd Of JULY"
Witness-In my opinion he was sane.
Recall Of Minister BarthoIomei.
CHICAGO, Dec. 21.--A Times Washington
special says: Diplomatic circles are much agi
tated over the act Of Secretary Blaine In re-
questing the Russian Government to recall
Minister Bartholomew. No reasonable reply
was made. and an envoy starts for ST. Peters
burg on Jan. 10. Bartholomew life here has
been q constant scandal. He brought q sus-
female from South Americs. He in.
CURED debts that he will not pay, and has
duped q large number of tradesmen. His OF.
perience at Newport last Summer cannot nave
been forgotten. Another officer of the Russian
Government Is in danger Of Q similar protest
for bringing here an italian woman, who has
been his mistress for years, and who has borne
him three children. Mrs. Blaine 10 said to
have inspired the recall Of Bartholomew.
A Boy Shot by n Crank.
NEWARK IN. ~, Dec. 21.-James Groves, .
crank. aged 80, shot dead last evening in the
public street Eddie Loden, aged IS. When |
he guessed the boy would not bother him
again, and offered to plead guilty to murder in
the second degree. Three years ago Groves
vas arrested for threatening the life OF Lodsn's
RiddIeberger's Course I'm the senate
RICHMOND, Dec. 21.-In the Senate yesterday
t was announced that Riddleberger would
that party which is virgtnian in It's |
liberal in its ideas and patriotic in its |
svery sense. In the House 1t was said that he |
would carve out . course for himself, and act
or the interests of Virginia, and that he op-
3osed Bourbonism and funderism debt paying.
More Fraud Developed.
NEWARK IN. j.. Dec. 2~1.-Another financial
'raud has just been developed. Frederick A.
Palmer. Auditor of the City Accounts, has sur
himself and been imprisoned on his
confession that he has embezzled $125, 600
the city funds during the past three years
erts that no one IL implicated with him.
No DeeisiOn Reached.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 1.-THE Republican Sena-
ors caucussed yesterday afternoon without
q decision as to the Democratic
proposition that Neil Brown, late Recording
)lerk in the House, be elected to the same
,lace in the Senate.