Daily Republican., 1881-11-28
THE ASSASSIN'S TRIAL,
BRINGING OUT THE FAMILY
SECRETS.
6uifeau stu Playing the Insane
DOdgs-Mrs. ScoviIIe Si.ter
Of the Prisoner Gives she
Family History Of tho
Assassin.

IL,
) TO limit the attendance to those who
have been fortunate to obtain them
, hal the effect this morning OF soon dis
sipating entirely the crowd arouni the
court house.
Inside, however, every seat was occu.
pied and the spectators whiled away the
time until the convening ofthe Court in
conversation and specui iations as to the
result of the trial!
The prisoner having been brought in
: amid the usual hustle, the exa mination
OF witnesses was begun.
Thomas North, the witness who was
being examined at the time of adjourn
! ment yesterday. resumed the stand, and
the ecross-exaIninatiCn was continued by
> Davidge. He detailed again the Incl
7 dent, related yesterday, of quarrel
which had occurred ia Freeport be-
tween Luther W. Guiieau and his son
, Charles at the supper table.
} The father had said something in.
J sulting to the son, who theieIlpOn struck
him, saying: "Tak. that, have bad
enough Of you" The father had then
struck the son on the nose, ana made
the blood flow.
Tho prisoner said, 81 don't think
there is word Of truth in this talk.
don't ronembe- an ything about 1t, and
| remember most everything"
Dacidge questioned the witness about
the occasion Of the sickness OF Luther
W. Huiteau's daughter Flora. Witness
stated that Luther W. Guiteau had
knelt by the bedside of his siclr G..ugh-
Ter and prayed; "Oh, Lord Je,,,l.
| Christ LAT tltil INV Ia Ia, lad
by thy healirgpower In the name of
Jesus Christ rebulse this disease"
Witness stated that Luther W. Gui-
teau believed that there were persons
| living on the earth then, and he among
them, who would never die; but he
placed it on absolute conditions
He believed that the Ducida Com
munity was the germ th%. was to work
ont tho communistic idea of things.
| Witness stated that his belief differed
from Luther W. Guiteau $ only in de.
gree.
Mr. Davis inquired whether witness
knew OF any rtharpaculiariti Of Luth-
er W. Guiteau exccbt those he has men
| toned, and received an aihrmativ.
! answer.
There are scores of such cases."
broke in the prisoner; those are only
two or three incidents. He was on that
business al his life after he became
acquainted with Noyes.'
The next witness WAS Senator John |
A. Logan, It Illinois. AS he was sworn
the prisop4' greeted him with GLOW
are you, Mr.. Senator, | am glad to see
you, but his greeting met with no re-
sponse.
His testimony was unimportant, be- |
ing simply the narrative Of an iuter-
view that he had oucs with Guiteau at |
his Logan's) house, End which i'm
pressed him with the idea that GuittIu
was = crank. The examination Of EIe
Senator was quite lengthy.
George ID. Hubbard, u farmer of the
Oneida Community, wa, examined,
but nothing of special Importance was
elicted.
rEsTIMoNY OF MRS. SCOvfLLE.
Mrs. Frances Scovi!le, sister of the
prisoner, and wife of his counsel, was
peXt called to the witness stand. She
stated her age rs forty five. Her father
was Luther W. Guiteall, and her moth
er Jane Howe Guiteau. The prisoner
Ia lOIlN StblS oNl. ITO was hb'ib NrN |
en- years old when her mother died.
She remembered her mother from the
time the witness was three years Old.
She was sick very long time, at the
time that Charles was born; had been 5
told that her sickness at that time last
ed a year and half; remember seeing
her head shaved perfectly bald; this
was before Charles was born: her aunt /
had subsequently gwen her (anoug :
other keepsakes) the hair then shared
from her mothers head; after tn 1t
time her mother always wore II cap; =
never saw her mother walk in the
street after that; there were two cali
dren born subsequently: Luther TDeo-
dore, who died when he was two years =
old and who was bJrn wiSha crooked /
foot and limb, ana julia CatharlIe,
who ,,!el wnen twenty months Old, SIX j
weeks after her mothers death: her q
mothers sickness was ended with a
very severe pain in her heall and her t
hair never grew agtih; Ter first re-
collection Of Charles was that he was II
trOu blesome child because he was very
active and smart; he was sent to schOO.
quite young-whnn ak years old-to v
learn 70 talk; he could mak9 a ,oiS", l.
but could not talk; he used the
word ped" for ''come" AMI the b
word "raii" for "Iuail;" his father /
punished him tor it, but that made no
difference; she thought that he could v
not compreheudtNe difference; after his
mothers death he we'd for year Or 80 ,
with his grandfather and then came
back 10 his father; witness was married
in January, 1888, while Charles was liv- +,
ing with his grandfather; subsequently, o
when he was twelve years old, he lived I
with witness for year in Chicago,
W here he went to school, she recollect- p
ed nothing peculiar about him then eX- 4
rep. that lie WAS very atfectionate, and
.hs was very much attached to him; ;,
then he went to his father, and subsr. =,
aueuty, when he was sever taen years Il
sid, he came again to live with wltness
at Oak PARK, near Chicago; he attended N
school at Commercial College, Chicago, b
and after that he went back to Freeport,
and from there he went to Ann Arbor
10 attend schuol; she went to Ann Arbor IL IL
TO 800 him, as sne had been informed $,
that he was going on worse than her
Gather had ever done; she found that At
he had abandoned his studies and was o,
giving his whole time and attention o.
o the studying Of the Bertan and y
he publications. OF the Ooeida Com
nunity; she argued with him for IN
whole evening, appealing to him to 60 r
IN quietly like other young meu and to q
give up all that stuff, her appeals had
40 effect upon him, however, aud she a.
made up her mind that ho was crazy 81
,he told her uncle, who lived at Ann IL
Arbor, to pay no moro attention to hlm, p
,ut let him 20 his own way, a. he was
clear gone daft, she after~ard visited p
him at the Oneida Community, but !"
,ould hardly have any conversation I,
With him, as they were not left alone
together; she noticed that he
.ctsd like q person who had been be-
yildered, struck on the head or had
partly lost his mind; she could not
earn from him whether he wanted tOI