Connecticut western news., 1881-11-23
examination the following was dis

closed:
 Q. When did that contest terminate at Albany? A. I think the termination of it was in the election of the second Senator-Laphsm. My recollection would be that it was about the 20th or 21st of July. It may have been later. I did not charge my mind with it. The reason I did not was that was very deeply absorbed and engrossed in the condition of the President. can say to counsel that after the President was shot the political canvass gave me as little concern and elicited from me as little observation, as any individual in the country. I took no part whatever in thd contest in the New York Senate.
 O. l never understood that you did. I did not question you with that idea. I wish to know if those factions in the Republican party were classified under certain heads, and, if so, what were they denominated A. believe that they were commonly designated Stal- warts and Half Breeds.
 O. Did not this term Stalwart date back to the political campaign last year. including Grant, Logan, and Conkling :? Were they not designated Stalwarts, and was not that term used in 1880 :? A. Yes, the term is older than that.
 Q. Did it not become prominent before the people in connection with the Chicago Convention? A. It was used there.
 Q. As applicable to the delegates that stood by Grant, was it not? There were 206, think A. Oh, yes.
 Q. I believe Guiteau refers to the term Stalwart in some of his letters ? A. I believe he does. ....
 Q. What would any one understand properly from the use of that word A. We'll, if counsel is wishing chap ter in political history to form part of the testimony, it ought to be correct one. The term Stalwart originated before that. I invented the term myself. Laughter.
 Q. Then you are just the man we want to explain it. When Guiteau, in his letters or speeches in the latter part of 1880 and first of 1881, refers to himself as 8 Stalwart, what did he mean? A. I suppose he meant to class himself with the personal supporters of Gen. Grant. Q. Did not those supporters, after Garfield was nominated, become his supporters? A. Naturally.
 Q. Was it not a fact !? A. Of course. They were Republicans, and all Repub- licans supported Garfield.
 o. The Stalwarts worked for the election of Garfield? A. Very heartily and very cordially.
 Q. Yes, sir. I was one of them. What was understood by the Half Breeds in New York? A. They in- cluded all the Republicans in New York that were not include1 among the Stall warts. Laughter.
 Q. Then there were only two divi- sions there? A. Yes. -. Q. To what branch did the person appointed as Collector belong? He was classed, in the nomenclature of New York, with the Half Breeds. 5 Q. To what branch did Senator Conk- ling belong? A. He was understood to be 8 Stalwart.
 MT. Scoville. That is all.
 The Venezuelan Minister testified as to the shooting which he witnessed. He said he recognized the prisoner at the bar as the man who did the shooting. He was holding the pistol low and about three or four yards from the Presidents back. He fired in diagonal direction. The second time he fired the President was already down and the bullet missed him. He said the murderer wore his hat slouched down over his eyes. Gui- teau excitedly called out that this was a falsehood, and that he never wore his hat that way. The prisoners hat was placed on his head in order to illustrate the witness's idea of it's position. Gui- teau insisted that he did not wear it that way.
 Mrs. Sarah B.. White, who was Tn charge of the ladies' waiting room at the depot, described the shooting and recognized the prisoner as the assassin. A Dumber of other witnesses described the shooting as they had witnessed it.