The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-12-01
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the publications of the Oneida commu-
nifty. She argued with him for the whole


nifty. She argued with him for the whole
evening: appealing to him to 60 on
. quietly like other young men, and give
up all that stuff. Her appeals had no
\ effect upon him, however, and she
made up her mind he was crazy. She
told her uncle who lived at Ann Arbor,
TO pay no more attention to him, but
let him 80 his own way, as he was clear
J gone daft. She afterwards visited him
at the Oneida community, but could
} hardly have any conversation with him
as they were not left alone moment
together. She noticed he acted like a
person who had been bswildered, struck
on the head, or had partly lost his
mind.
| The next witness was
SENATOR JOHN A. LOGAN,
of Illinois. AS he was sworn the pris-
oner greeted him with "How are YOU.
Mr.. Senator, | am glad to see you;" but
the greeting met no response.
The senator's testimony was unim-
portant and has been substantially
published, in the form of an interview.
heretofore. When asked to give an
opinion in accordance with his observa-
tons OF the prisoner, he said: thought
there was some arrangement in his
mental organization, but to what ex-
tent | could not say. When I went
down to breakfast one morning / saw
him at the table as a boarder.
called the landlady and asked
her if she knew that gentleman.
She mentioned his name and said he
had told her he was a constituent of
mine.
Q.-What was your expression of
opinion to the landlady at that timer
Al said this: II don't think he is
a proper person to have in your board
| ing house," She asked "Whv?o
said II think he is little off in his
head" or some language of that kind
She asked what meant, and [ said
thought he was kind of crazy and she
had better not have him in her board
ing house. That is about the CONVEX
sation we had at that time.
The cross-examination was yerv
brief and no new points developed.
TWELFTH DAY.
WASHINGTON, d. c., November 49,
j. w. Guiteau resumed the stand.
Had heard his uncle Abraham was
insane. His uncle Francis Wilson
Guiteau mentioned in the family az
Francis Guiteau, secondly died in an
asylum. He understood that in early
life Francis had fought duel with a
1iyaliin love. Witness had understood
his uncle had killed the man, but the
record at the asylum showed his in
sanity had been caused by nlortilica-
tion at fighting q sham duel. Besides
Abbey Maynard, daughter Of his aunt
Julia, and Augusta Parker, who was q
cousin, witness had never heard of any
other case of insanity in the family.
Scoville-What is yonr opinion now
as to your fathers sanity2
Al think he was sane"
Q.-"What do you mean by saving
your brother was possessed Of demon
or devil?"i
Religious theory is that there
are two forces in the universe, one un-
der the satan or devil, and the other
under God or Jesus Christ. Ny father
held the view that there were living in
the world those who were seized of the
devil or satan and cf fChrist or God. He
believed these two forces were at war
with one another, and that at present and
since the fall of man, satan had
to q great extent domination
of the earth, and desire to possess
himself of all those he could
and he did possess himself of all those
whe are not absolute believers in the
Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and
who had not been saved from the pow
er of sin by complete union with the
Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. That
all evil, all disease, all deformity, all
infirmity was the result of sin. or the
admission of those who had a free will,
that they were under the domination of
satan, or the evil spirit, or of his evil
nature. That was my fathers theolog-
ical view, it was my brothers and it Is
mine, and so / believed at the same
time in my brosher's life. As he had
q free will to choose between good and
evil, he must have, through his evil
nature, through his willfulness, through
his stubbornness, through his per-
versity of nature allowed satan
to gain such great control over
him; he was under the power Of Satan.
That idea is one on which l based my
opinion that my brother was morally
responsible to God, but not responsible
according to human or legal RESPONSE
bility; being in one sense insane"
Prlsoner-"You have the thing wrong
side up"
Witness s-"Perhaps have"
Prisoner-"That's very poor theology
and a very poor position for you 10
take"
Coming back to the subject of his
uncle Abraham Guiteau (witness) stated
that when he saw him last in 1867, he
was ''oF his base very bady;;' he was
gassy, blow-hardy kind Of man; witness
would have said of him, she
was little weak in the upper story"
He remembered his brother in his in
fancy; he was so nervous he could not
keep still for five minutes. His father
once offered him ten cents if he would
do SO and he did not get the money.
His mother had salt rheum very bad
ly. That disease affected witness and
his sister. He never heard of it in pris-
Oner.
AsHBuRNHAM, Mass, Jan. IA, 1880.
have been very sick over two years. They
all gave me up as past cure. ] tried the most
skillful physicians, but they did not reach the
worst part The lungs and heart would fill up
every night and distress me, and my throat was
very bad. told my children never should die
in peace until ! had tried Hop Btters. have
taken two bottles. They have helped me very
much indeed. am now well. There was q lot
Of sick folks here who have seen how they helped
me, and they used them and are cured, and feel
as thankful as / do that there is so valuable
medicine made. Mrs. JULIA G. CUSHING.
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The Washington Post says of the ap-
pearance of Mrs. Scoville, Guiteau's
sister, at the trial: "Her sad face. with