Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-12-10
GUITEAU'S TRIAL.

DeBlnnlnS. Inc courtroom was packed IN
every part and again the assassin sat under
the silent battery of score of doctors eyes,
who took the range of every movement that
he made.
Mrs. Scoville continued and concluded her
testimony, which was simply a corroboration
of her previous testimony. Other witnesses
were examined, from whom nothing important
was elected except from his brother John W.
Guiteau the most important facts of which
John W. Guteau, of Boston, brother of the
prisoner, testified that he knew the prisoner
intimately until he was eight or nine years
old since then he had known him personally
only at intervals. Witness related o quarrel
with the prisoner when he had grown to be
N years OF age, when the prisoner insisted that
he did not owe Mr.. Scoville anything be ause
he had given him his note for the amount due
and Scoville could get the money out OF bank
on the note. Witness at that time boarded at
the same house with the prisoner. but the
prisoner paid his own board.
Mr.. Corkhill. why do you say that ?"
Witness.--'' Because believe that he never
paid his own board when he could get any one
to pay it for him."
Guiteau.-sIve paid my board better than
you have if the record was made up"
Witness saw the prisoner very little after
wards until he saw him in Jail. Since then he
has visited him very often. When witness first
Hcuiu 0ulbtdu spedk VI tu6 ASSASSINATION nc
SAID that men would soon change, and instead
OF the assassin Guiteau, would say Guiteau the
patriot Witness, knowing the somewhat hos
tlity of the prisoner to him, took care not to let
the prisoner get behind him when he first went
to the jail Becoming soon satisfied that there
| was no danger, witness, to test the prisoner,
asked him if he was willing to suffer or die for
the principle of inspiration, and prisoner said
he was. Then he asked. "Are you willing to
be sacrificed for this view, as Christ was %
The prisoner said he was willing. Witness
then told him that the court and jury were on
tho side of the world, and they would not
believe his theory of inspiration, and asked if
ne was willing to suffer for his faith. He
expressed his willingness to do so and then
witness said 'sThey say you are O cringing
coward, afraid of your life." The prisoner
denied this.
rather be, hung by the hangman or shot by
he mob ?"
Then the prisoner sprung up and said ex-
citedly II don't want either, and ran into
corner, showing signs of fright, and then all
of them laughed heartily at this sudden
change in his demeanor, the prisoner joining
In the laugh. Witness was convinced that the
prisoner was and is insane.
A huge book was here handed witness, with
the question, 'fWhat is this ?''
Witness-It is the family Bible of the Gui-
teau family.
Mr.. Scoyllle then read the Guiteau family
record from 1857 M
Witness thought the prisoner insane after
he received some letters from Chicago, about
the 21st of last October.
The cross-examination was q repetition of
the evidence given. M H
Guiteau the assassin. was put upon the
stand to identify his handwriting.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.--Never before in the
history of the City Hall has there been known
such pressure as was shown there to-day,
inside and outside. The courtroom is packed
when four hundred people are within. The
applicants for admission numbered at least ten
thousand, and from O'Clock the crowd began
to gather, and by $50 it was impossible to
approach the doors of the City Hall without
a struggle. The crowd somewhat DELAYED the
court, but the judge was in his seat few
minutes past tan and the trial began. "a
copy of the record of the Bloomingdale
Insane Asylum as to the death of Francis w.
fact was admitted by the prosecution. .
MIR, Scoville then placed Guiteau upon the
stand, and asked if he remembered his
| mother. A i. M tEH
Guiteau.-"Do you wish to put me on now
as regular witness -? l thought you wanted
me only to identify certain papers, am not
ready to testify now. l don't desire that the
prosecution should take advantage of nv
present situation to press a DISCRIMINATION
| upon me. l do not fell well to-day, and when
go into my testimony I want to go into this
case scientifically. n
Judge Porter said of course if there was an
examination in chief there must be cross
| examination.
Mr. Scoville thought that the testimony of
Guiteau might be begun, and if he felt UNIV ell
the court would not require him to go on.
Guiteau refused to go on unless the court
would first rule upon the question whether, if
the examination were begun it must go on and
the cross-examination follow.
The Court.-''You are not obliged to testify
at all, but if you do testify you must submit
to CROSS examination. II.
Gulteau was then called to the stand Mr..
Scoville at first started him upon his narrative
by questions, and once started he spoke with
great volubility and ease, and some lines with
notable facility of expression.
witness (the prlsOner) remembers only that
his mother was an invalid, and feels as if he
never had mother. He detailed the removals
OF his residence. His father and grandfather
supplied wood to steamers at Ulao, Wis. Wit
ness did nothing there ); was eight or nine
years old /; played about; did not go to school
afterwards went to school at Freeport to Mr.
Burchard, now director of the United States
mint, who then kept the district school.
When his father married the second time,
September, 1858, he was agent of the railroad
company. Witness was very indignant that
his father had not consulted with him when
ne went OH to marry second time. Witness
went then to Chicago. From eight to twelve
years of age witness attended school off and
on. Was twelve when his father remarked.
When sixteen went to Bells Commercial Col
lege. His father saw no way of saving wit
ness's soul except by running him into the
Oneida Community, and he did not care that
ne should have an education, but should save
his soul by going to the Community. Said
witness He was all on soul /; if got to be
the greatest man in the world and did not save
my, soul it would all go for naught." At his
fathers urgent solicitation he went to the
Oneida Community and found it 'horrible
hole, the object being to provide harem for
the chief man. After being there seven years
he went to New York, joined Beecher's church,
and gradually the scales fell from his eyes.
Witness remembers being struck on the head
by stone near Beebe's Hotel, Freeport Has
the scar now, (shows it, can put his hand in
it. His father did not go to church and did
not approve of Sunday schools. He had no
family prayer, and his ordinary grace before
meat was 81 thank God for Moves and the
Oneida Community" thus taking Noyes in
the place of Christ He bought farm near
Freeport and desired to establish a branch of
the Oneida Community there, and at one time
Noyes's agent came out to look at the farm.
Witness got into the Oneida Community from
falling into his fathers way of thinking.
Witness believed in the healing doctrine
while he was at Oneida. When he had the
headache he used to say, sect away from me.
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