The National tribune., 1881-12-24
TRIAL OF THE ASSASSIN.
Continued.

place between John w Guiteau. the Court Dis
trict Attorney, prisoner, and his counsel, after
which Mr.. Geo. c. Maynard Of this city, cousin
of the last witness, was called to the stand, and
corroborated her in relation to her tatements
about her mother and sister. In reference to Mr.
VIM S Maynard Abby's father, the witness said
he never knew anything OF insanity about him.
He understood that he had died of an overdose of
morphine.
THAT busts your theory, Colonel" said the
prisoner to Mr. Corkhill. He was one of the
best business men in Michigan, worth a hundred
thousand dollars. The idea Of talking about him
being weak-minded is absurd high toned
man every way"
The witness testified that the prisoner boarded
with his mother, when at Ann Arbor.
L paid my board bill, too" shouted the pris
oneT
After recess Frank Bartlett was the first wit
ness. He testified that he new the prisoner
slightly.
" | met the gentleman" interrupted the pris-
oner, "at Mr.. Scovilles house one summer. 1t
cost the Government 5000 to bring this man
down here for nothing. C0rkhills just wasting
the money"
"Silence!" roared the crer
" | say it is outrage for COrkhill to waste the
money in that way" said the prisoner.
The witness testified that he nothing unu-
sual in the prisoners conduct when he was at
Mr.. ScOvile's house in 1873.
"What has that got to do, Mr.. CorkhilI with the
condition of my mind in May and June last?"
broke in the prisoner. 81 had a hundred chances
to go crazy after that. If you had to pay some
of this money yourself, you wouldn't be so easy
with it. The taxpayers have to pay that"
Mrs. Bartlett, the wife of the preceding wit
ness, eorrobOrated all her husband had said.
Guiteau's conduct was always gentlemanly and
refined. She testified also that the prisoner had
a moral and religious objection to playing cards
h11th
in the game of "Sancho Pedro" but was novice.
There was nothing whatever in the prisoners
actions that would lead one to judge him to be
insane.
On cross ss-examination the testimony of the wit
ness was not at all shaken.
Horace c. Denham. of Boston, testified that in
the fall and winter of 1879, prisoner had desk
room in his Office paid no rent, at the end of
about four weeks was turned out, and his book
upon which he had been at work was attached
for a board bill. Saw nothing in prisoner to in
dicate insanity.
After this witness had been discharged, Colonel
Corkhill arose, and handed document to the
Court
Judge Cox opened the document, and stated
that it contained President Arthur's answers to
the interrogatOries propounded to him by Mr..
ScOville, the attorney for Guiteau.
The communication of President Arthur is as
follows:
"Te the interrogatories of the counsel for the
defense answer
"Do you know the prisoner it this case?"
"Yesn
"How many times and where did you ever see
him?"
"Have seen him at least ten times, and possibly
as often as twenty times altogether, mostly in and
about 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
WASHINGTON in the Sprup of 1887
what conversation if any, did you ever have
with him?"
None, excepting to return the ordinary salu-
tatiOns of the day, and once or twice in answer
to his requests to be employed in the campaign
as a speaker by the Republican State Committee,
of which / was chairman"
What political services, if any, did the pris-
oner render to the Republican party during the
last Presidential campaign?"
None that | know Of"
Was there ever anything to your knowledge
in his relations to yourself, or to General Grant
or to Senator Logan, or to any other leader of
the Republican party, socially and politically,
furnishing a shadow of a reasonable claim on his
part for political prefeTment?"
"No"
Did you, or not, give him any reason to think
that he had or could have any political or per-
sOnal influence with you?"
81 neved did"
L nave been requested by the counsel Tor the
defense to produce letter written by the prs-
Oner, and inclOsed to me by his counsel since his
indictment"
This letter was received by me in the month
of October last but was not preserved l do not
remember its contents particularly, excepting
that it contained 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. CHESTER A. ARTHUR"
Rev. DR.. r. S. Macarthur, pastor of Baptist
Church in New York City testified to various
immoral acts on the part of Guiteau; to having
loaned him money, and also to his expulsion
from membership in the church of which witness
was pastor.
Friday, DR.. Macarthur was recalled, and testified
that in all his conversations with the prisoner or
observations Of him, never noticed anything that
would lead him to believe that the prisoner was
insane; he lent the prisoner, if he remembered
correctly, some $95.
"Yes" said Guiteau; "it was in $50, S25, and
$50 You gave it to me in three installments"
II think that the statement just made is the
correct one )" said the witness.
The doctor did lend me money and | appreci-
ated 1t. 1t was taken from his salary and | knew
that he needed it. He was married, and getting
babies very fast, and needed the money in the
family. got the money and expect to pay it
back" said Guiteau
Guiteau here wished so much of witness testi-
mony as related to his expulsion from the church
stricken out and In the discussion that followed
remarked, So far as moral depravity concerned,