River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-08

Gulteau improved the occasion 70 make
the first speech of the day. He said:
II notice my friend Henry Ward
Beecher is doing some cranky work on
this case. | used to attend his church
and prayer meetings, and if your honor
knew him as well as / do, you would
not pay any attention to i'm. There
are q good many people who think he
is badly cranSed socially, and / think
that Mrs Tilton told the truth and that
he lied about it, and tell him so pub
licly."
MRS. sooyIIIE
was then called and testified as follows
When Charles was twelve years old he
lived with witness for year in Chica-
go, where he went to school. She recel-
lected nothing peculiar about him then,
except he was very atfectlonate, and
she was very much attached to him.
Five or six years later he went to Ann
Arbor to attend school; she went to Ann
Arbor to see him, as she had been in
formed he was going on worse than her
father had ever done. She found he
had abandoned studies and was giving
his whole time and attention studying
the publications of the Oneida commu-
nifty. She argued with him for the whole
evening. appealing to him to go 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 go his own way, as he was clear
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
person who had been bawildered, 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 GLOW 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 ofan interview,
| heretofore. When asked to give an
opinion in accordance with his observa-
tions of the prisoner, he said: / thought
there was some arrangement in his
mental organization, but to what ex-
| tent | could not say. When | went
down to breakfast one morning | saw
| him at the table as boarder. /
called the landlady and asked
| her if she knew that gentleman.
She mentioned his name and said he
had told her he was constituent of
mine.
Q.-What was your expression of
opinion to the landlady at that time?
| Al said this II don't think he is
proper person to have in your board
ing house" She asked "Whv?' /
said 81 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 very
brief and no new points developed.
TWELFTH DAY.
WASHINGTON, d. c., November Is
j. w. Gulteau resumed the stand
Had heard his uncle Abraham was
| insane. His uncle Francis Wilson
Guiteau mentioned in the family as
FRANCIS Guiteau, secondly died in an
asylum. He understood that in early
life Francis had fought duel with a
rival in love. Witness had understood
his uncle had killed the man, but the
record at the asylum showed his in
sanity had been caused by mortifica-
ton at fighting sham duel. Besides
Abbey Maynard, daughter of his aunt
Julia, and Augusta Parker, who was a
cousin, witness had never heard of any
other case of insanity in the family.
Scoville-What is your opinion now
as to your fathers sanity?
Al think he was sane"
Q.-"What do you mean by saying
your brother was possessed of demon
| or devil ?"
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 Christ 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 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 W
er of sin by a 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 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
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 j based my
opinion that my brother was morally
| responsible to God, but not responsible
according to human or legal response
oility; being in one sense insane"
Prlsoner-"Yo have the thing wrong
side up"
Witness Perhaps / have"
Prisoner That's very poor theology
and very poor position for you to
take"
Coming back to the subject of his
uncle Abraham Guiteau (witness1 stated
that when he saw him last in 1867, he
was 'off his base very BABY" he was
gassy, blow hardy kind of man; witness
would have said of him, she
was a 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 IL pris-
oner
THIRTEENTH DAY.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 29.-The crowd
amounted to perfect jam to-day. The
papers and letters of the prisoners
father were offered in evidence They
were all written by Guiteau to his faith
er and other members Of the family,
ond novarad a nariad IF fiftaap mr.