The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-12-15

ceived letter from Guiteau, containing some
claim TO having rendered important services to
the Republican party, and an appeal for the
postponemept of his trial. He did not preserve
the letter. The Rev. DR.. McArthur of New
York city of whose church Guiteau and his
wife were members several years ago, de-
soribed his acquaintance with the assassin and
the circumstances under which Guteau was ex-
PEELED from the church. The prisoner alter
nately contradicted this witness outright and
addressed him with an air of familiarity.
On the twenty-second day the proceedings
began with the continuation of the examna-
ton of the Rev. DR.. Macarthur, of New York,
who testified that he had seen no indications
of unsoundness in Guiteau. The prisoner, as
usual, constantly interrupted and used
abusive language, at one moment showing
anger at the Witness at another making an on
slaught on q local reporter and then again at
taclking District-Attorney Corkhitl, saying eff
your record was dug up colonel, it would stink
worse than mine. l understand you are booked
for removal. You had better &c slow. The
President is only waiting to get this thing off
his mind before you get your ticket-of-leave. 1
want the absolute truth about this" Stephen
English, of New York, editor and proprietor of
the Insurance Tunes, next detailed all the cir
cumstances connected with the prisoner,
in Ludlow Street Jail on charge of
libel. He was interrupted at every
step Of his narrative by the prisoner
calculating: "That is not true !" "Confne
yourself to the facts, English" HE got me
arrested by actual perjury" "That is abso-
lutely false / can convict you that you are
lying There is not an insurance president in
New York who does not know that you are
first-class fraud !" "That is the biggest lie you
have spoken. Why, would not spit on you in
the street, you old scoundrel;" "The insur-
ance presidents of New York would not believe
,1ar al fror16 T,,r ,1r, q,
the question whether he had any doubt as to
the sanity Of the prisoner, the witness said {:
"Never. On the contrary, he appeared to be o
man Of remarkable keenness of intellect, be-
cause he completely outwitted me. He was o
shrewd, active, intelligent lawyer" Several
New York lawyers were then examined, and
testified either as to the, prisoners
tinually interruptiDg in his usual abusive
STYLE Judge Hawes, of the New York marine
court, in whose Office the prisoner occupied a
desk in 1874, testified that they had never seen
any indication of unsoundness of mind in
| Guiteau. Senator Benjamin Harrison, of In
diana, testified that the prisoner asked him in
| Washington last spring to help him get Office,
| but the witness told him he was already
| overloaded with applications from his own
| State. He had never questioned Gui-
teau's sanity. Guiteau patronizingly said OF
| Senator Harrison: "You are a good fellow,
Senator. l remember you very well. Our con-
versations were generally social" The next
| witness was Isaac f. Lloyd, of New York, Sec
retary of the Mutual Life Insurance company.
| Ho presented applications for insurance =
four from John W. Guiteau, two from the pris
oner, and one from the prisoners father. The
I point made was that those applications con
! tanned negative answers to the question whether
there was insanity in the family. Upon objec.
| ton by prisoners counsel the court excluded
| the applications of the prisoners
father and brother. But the great
sensation Of the day was created
| when d. Mclean Shaw, a New York lawyer in
whose Office Guiteau had desk ten years ago
testified that the prisoner told him in 1872 that
he (Guiteau) was bound to be notorious before
he died that if he could not get notoIiety fol
| good, he would get it for evil that he would
shoot some Of our big men, and would initiate
Wilkes Booth AS the story was told, and the
spectators felt how completely it fitted the pop
ular conception of the assassin's character, 8
| profound sensation was visible. The assassin
was beside himself with excitement. "You
| lie," he shouted, shaking his hand at the wit
ness you're q mean, low dirty liar. Gnevel
had any such conversation, you low
dirty, low-lived whelp. My wife and
you know something of each other
She told me you came up to visit her,
he said, with grin of pure malice; " I'll show
| you up" The assassin went on to pour out :
almost without break through both the direc
| and cross-examination. Mr.. Scoville did hi:
| best to break the effect of the evidence by
| showing that Mr.. Shaw had not allowed the ex
| preston of such sentiments to alter his rela
tions with Guiteau, but the witness explained
that he had not really supposed the man woult
do what he said.