The Portland daily press., 1881-12-01

4 cal reasons for not pressing your sun agailsO
! the HeralC?"
| A.-"Yes, but they are rather remote.
! have had an idea in my head twenty years
I should be President of the United States. 1
| suppose the people think / have been badly
| crank about that. had the idea in the Onei-
| da community. I went to Boston with dis
| tincu feeling was on the way to the White
| House and 1 shall make it yet"
A laugh spread through the audience at the
| prediction, but to judge by the prisoners man
| ner and tone he was decidedly in earnest in his
III I am ever President" continued wit
| ness, sit will be by the act OF God | shall
| get the domination as Lincoln and Garfield
| did and shall be elected as they were. l an
ticipate a decided change of public opinion In
regard to me-"
Court-"Mr. Scoville, confne witness to the
narrative, if you please.
| Q.-"Did your abandonment of the claim
| against the Herald have anything to do with
| political inspirationg"
A.-"The idea had been in my head twenty
| years that would be President and | did not
| want to get the Herald down on me. That is
| all the reason why l did not press the suit
| against it. / don't care now snap of my I'm
| gers about being President l don't know that
I sbould take it if I were actually nominated
| and elected but have had the idea In my
| head all the same for twenty years.
| Q.-Was your purpose in selling your Dook
| in connection with the removal OF the Pfesi-
| dent any idea of making money out OF II?
| A-There is no money in that business IN
| any way, shape or manner and never has been.
| When Corkhill cane to me in July and talked
| of some great lot of money and OF some great
| men backing me with money and all that
| kind of nonsense / told him about my clrcum-
| stances and convinced him had no money.
The direct examination of the prisoner here
| closed and cross examination began by Mr..
| Porter.
| CROSS EXAMINATION.
1 was opened as follows:
q ~1,.,,lr oh
| years of age?
A.-Forty-one the sth of September last.
| Judge
| Q.-Are you conscious of being man of
| considerable ability?
| Al would not express any opinion on that.
| Q.-Have you expressed any opinion on that
| subject?
| Al think not
| Q.-Have you an opinion on it?
| A-(Repeating) Have an opinion on it?
| Well decline to answer.
O-Are YOU man of truth?
A.-Most decidedly, Judge am in dead
earnest in anything do.
| Q.-I think you were converted at the age
of II or thereabouts?
| A.-Yes sir.
Q.-From that time you have been man of
| truth have you not?
A.-Yes sir.
Q.-And as you believe Christian man?
| Al hope SO, Judse.
| Q-You have hated all shams?
A.-Most decidedly.
B-And do now?
| Al do
Q.-You have had 10 bad habits?
| Al think not.
Odd you pass through the ordeal of the
Oneida community and maintain your virtue!
A.-Well, not absolutely.
I OIL thought you said yesterday that you
did.
Al said or intended to say, although mis-
| represented, had been mostly strictly vlr-
lofk @l,.asx x,0r1 ffs,aAC tlry
| Odd you believe in the doctrines of the
| Oneida community while you were there?
Al did. / thought the community was
| the commencement of Gods kingdom on
| earth.
The prisoner was then cross-examined in re-
! gard to his business as lawyer in Chicago and
| New York. After this subject had been dis
| posed of the cross-examination proceeded as
| follows
O.-You always have been very persistent
and persevering man?
| A.-Yss
Q.-Haye you been man of good deal of
force of will and determination?
| A. with laugh)-Some people think 80.
Q.-Tha. has been characteristic OF yours
| from boyhood, has it not?
! Al have been very earnest in what un-
dertook.
Q.-You determined to kill Gen. Garfield,
| did you not?
Al decline to answer that That is {.
| very strong way to put it with some excite
ment). consider myself the agent of the
Deity in the matter. 1 had no personal voli-
tion in the matter.
Odd Gen. Logan say to you he would en-,
dorse your application for the Paris consulship?
Al understood him to say SO.
Q,-Did he say so?
A.-Yes he did say so.
Q.-Then when Logan swore he did not say
he would recommend you he Idid not tell the
truth.
Al would not like to say that.
One evening at boarding house | asked
him to sign my application and he said he had
no pan just then to do it with, but told me to
come TO his room the next morning and he
wonld do it, Next morning he had changed
his mind do not make any reflections upon
Gen. Logan, but that is the way all these poll.
ticians do.
Q-Did Secretary Blaine promise you the
Paris consulship if Logan would recommend
yo?
A.-No sir, he did not,
Odd you say to officer Scott on leaving
the depot at the murder of the President "Gen
Arthur is now presidents"
Al decline to answer that.
Q.-Wby do you object to answering that?
Al suppose did say that (be added ex-
citedly) want it distinctly understood do
not sny that of my own personal volitien but
on inspiration of the Deity. never would
have shot the President on my own personal
account
Q-Who bought the pistol the Deity or
you?
Al said the Deity inspired the act and
would take care of it.
Porter-''The question is ''Who bought the
pisto?"
A. .-The'Deity furnished the money with
which 1 bought the pistol. was agent.
OIL thought it was somebody else who fur
nisbed the money.
Prisoner-It was the Deity who furnished
the money with which bought the pistol.
Porter-He furnished you all the money you
ever had on earth, did he?
Prisoner-J think so.
@ From whose hand was it that you were
furnished the money with which you bought
that murderous weapon?
Alt is of no consequence (somewhat fur
riod and excited)Mr. Maynard swore he loaned
me $l5.
Odd he?
A-Yes, he loaned me money.
@. What did you do with that money?
Al used it for several purposes
Q.-What were they?
Al have no objection to stating frankly
that got $15 from Maynard and that L used
it to buy that pistol with.
Odd you deny when he was on the stand
that that was the money with which you
bought the pistol?
A-No sir, never denied it because that is
the truth But it is of no consequence whether
| got the money from Maynard or whether
pawned my coat for it.
Q-Were you inspired to borrow S15 from
Mr.. Maynard?
what wanted the money for.
Q.-v'ere you inspired to buy that British
s'bull-dog''?
Al do not pretend that was inspired to
do that specific act, but claim that the Deity
inspired me to remove the President and that
I had to resort to my own means to accomplish
the Deity will.
Q.-The only inspiration you had was to use
the pistol on the President?
A-The inspiration cnossted in trying to re-
move the President, and Gmpatienty) all |
these details are nothing to the case.
Q.-Were you inspired to remove him by |
murder?
Al was inspired to execute the Divine
will by murder SO called.
Q-You did not succeed in executing the
Divine will?
Al think the doctors finished the work
Q.--The Deity tried and you tried and you |
both failed, but the doctors succeeded?
A.-The Deity confirmed my act by letting |
the President down so gently as he did
Q.-Do you think it was letting him down |
gently tv let him suffer that torture over |
which you profess to feel so much solicitude |
during three long monthsY
A-The whole matter was in the hands of |
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