The Portland daily press., 1881-11-23

| of laughter, but not from the prisoner, who
! angriiy exclaimed, 81 wrote her two letters
and she wrote me two. You (Scoville) sup
| pressed the rest. 1 have been looking for
response TO my last letter for three weeks, and
| 1 am certain you have lied about 1t. tell
you SO publicly" He continued raising his
voice. "You can't fool me, am going to fol-
low her." Laughter.)
Scoville-The letters Guiteau wrote | did
not send.
"No YOU did not send them 1 knew you had
lied about it. That is not the first lie you have
told. " cried the prisoner emphasizing the words
with blows upon the table g! knew you had
been lying. You told me you had sent those
| letters and now you say you have not"
Court Stern1y) Be quiet.
District Attorney May 1t please your honor,
Mr. Scoville knows as well as your honor that
this testimony if any is in existence can never
be produced in this trial, that II there were
any such letters they never can reach the jury
and this attempt to go into public colloquy
with this man is reprehensible. Let him con-
fine himself to testimony which it Is proper to
introduce to the jury, and let this man play
his part when the time comes
81 am not playing part cried the prisoner
excitedly and gesticulating wildly. II knew
Scoville was lying"
Scoville-I understand this evidence is COM
ing I understand it is perfectly competent.
GAS general thing testimony obtained from
lying is not competent retorted the prisoner.
Scoville-I will not reply to Mr.. Corkhlii at
present for his insinuation. When the tune
comes for argument of this case he will get his
answer. The significant tone in which TINS
was said brought down storm OF applause
from the spectators. 49,
II had considered" continued Scoville this
evidence was competent"
The priSoner-'You will not have any sue
cess from the Lord by lying"
"You lie, you liel I've found you out. When
man lies to me once never believe him again
You have lied to me once and that is played
out"
The prisoner in making the speech seemed
to be convulsed with passion, and it was In
vain his brother and sister attempted to quiet
him.
Scoville-All wantin this case is that truth
shall prevail. 10 $50
Prisoner-That is what want, and am GO
| ing to have it too. ~
Scoville-(To the jury All that l want is
| that truth shall prevail. If there is any evil
! dence brought before you, you have the oppor.
| tunity to criticize it any way you please. and
| if YOU believe produce an item Of evidence
for theatrical effect without earnest conviction
| that it is just and proper to be done, 1 want
you not only to reject it,but to charge it against
| me with ten fold effect in your final verdict.
| (appiause) Scoville noticed another little PEE
| culiarity about the prisoner. He had been
| called when boy.
| r-(nterrupting) "Julius Caesar, L
| never liked the name and do not want it--too
| MUCH lilo NtSrO duOQb
Scoyille-The name as I understand Wa
| Julius Charles. He was called Julius until
| after be went to the Oneida Community when
| he took an antipathy to the name because AS he
said Julius Caesar was Roman name or Me-
/ gro name. He required everybody to call him
| Charles, leaving the -" still in his name, and
he did not answer if he was called Julius.
| That continued till about year ago, when his
antipathy to the name had grown so great he
| insisted on'dropping the u altogether. 4
/ D~sn1 II, laf Ina fsG hor lao
| Mr. Scovile then proposed to read bundle
| of letters written by the prisoner, dating back
| to 1858. as showing the bent of his mind.
| District Attorney-Do you propose to intro
| duce the letters as evidence?
Mr.. Scoville-YeS. M
| District Attorney--As Immediately connect
| ed with the crime?
Mr.. Scoyille--As showing the bent of the
| prisoners mind, just as you read some OF his
letters in evidence.
| District Attorney-The letters I read were i'm
mediately connected with the commission OF the
| crime.
Court-I do not know that can draw any
| distinction as to time. These letters are lndi-
| cations of che prisoners mind.
District Attorney This is plea going to
show the insanity of the prisoner fifteen or six
| teen years ago.
| Mr.. Scoville-Exactly.
| District Attorney do not object to Mr..
| Scoville stating what he expects to prove by
these letters, but do object to his introducing
| them before we have inspected them.
| The Court-They are introduced now as part
| of his opening speech.
Prisoner-We will show they are authentic.
| Mr.. Scoville-You did the same thing exact
| ly.
| District A ttorney-I read no letters except
what were connected with the commission OF
| the crime.
| The Court-They were read as part of your
| opening statement and were afterwards proved.
| Mr. Spovilia- understand fl0 lSSu6 is to
! the insanity of this man.
| District Attorney-W What is your issue?
Mr.. Scoville-If there was insanity twenty
years ago have right to show it .s.ss4.ag
District Attorney Certainly, but object TO
your reading mass of letters to the jury in
advance of any knowledge of them on the
| part of the prosecution.
Mr. Scoville-I will not read them all.
District Attorney-I do not desire to inter-
| fere with your opening for desire that you
| shall have the greatest latitude in this case.
Scovile thereupon proceeded to read letters,
| most of them addressed to Mrs. Scovile and
1 some to himself Those of the earliest date,
| 1858, show nothing peculiar but gradually they
drift into religious turn quoting texts OF SCRIP
| ture and appealing to his sister to turn to God
This feature of them is marked after he has
| gone to the Oneida community. The hrst
| letter from there which is dated in February,
1861. lays down aud support the doctrines !, !
| community. When this letter was read the
prisoner said, 81 forgot that letter; it is very
| good representation of the influence under
| which lived for six years. was not aware
| it was in existence" iiSN
The last letter from Oneida was dated the
| 18th of October, 1866, and stated his views had
| changed, that he desired to leave the COM
| munity and go to New York to qualify forla
position in some bank and asking Scoville to
| send him $50
| Prisoner-I was recovering from my insanity
then, got up under their influence. | was
| getting my eyes open then away from those
miserable people. 1 had been six years sub
| ject to their fanaticism.
Mr.. Scovile explained that others of the
| prisoners letters had been burned up in his
office in the Chicago fire. These letters hap
| pened to have been kept at home. The next
| letters read were from New York and Brook
| lyn in 1867 and 1868. TAere were no striking
peculiarities in any Of them except where they
| dealt with religious subjects. sa1f %
| At this stage of the opening the case went
| overuntil tomorrow.
CHICAGO, Nov 22-Lawyer Trude, upon
| whom Mr.. Scoville and Guiteau depend for aid