Connecticut western news., 1881-12-07
THE TRIAL OF GUITEAu.
Incidents of the Case and Testimony
 Given.


 Incidents of the Case and Testimony
 Given.
 Senator John A. Logan, of Illinois, was sworn. As he was sworn the pris- oner greeted him with s'How are you, Senator. am glad to see you." but his greeting met with no response.
 The witness detailed two interviews which he had with the prisoner. The first was about the 18th or the 18th of March last, in the morning. The pris- oner came to his room, uninvited. The first thing that the prisoner did was to pull pamphlet out of his pocket and hand 1t to the witness, saying that it was speech which he had delivered in the recent canvass and asking witness to read it. Witness declined to read it at the time, but said that he would take pleasure in reading it afterward. It was speech entitled "Garfeid against Hancock" The prisoner then said :: t'That speech elected MT. Garfield Pres ident of the United States" He then commenced talking about 6 position that he desired, saying that he had the promise of an appointment as Consul General to France. He said he had seen the Secretary of State, who had prom ised him this appointment provided he could get Senator Logan's recom- mendation. Witness said : ssI do not know you and cannot recommend you.
 s.He did not strike me as 8 person whom would recommend for an office of that character or any other eftice. I treated him as kindly and politely as I could, but was very desirous of getting rid of him; did not want to be annoyed with him. He was rather peculiarly clad for the season, there being snow on the street at the time. He had On his feet a pair of sandals, or rubbers or something of that kind. He had no stockings. He wore light pair of panta- looms and 8 common, ordinary coat. A day or two afterward he came again to my room uninvited. He still insisted on my signing his recommendation reiterating the same statement as before, of his having a promise of the place if I would recommend him. I declined. I had in the meantime, out of curiosity, read the speech. He was little more excited at the second interview than at the first. The second was very short interview, for I tried to dispose of the matter as quickly as possible. I said to him: The first time see the Secretary of State l will mention your case to h1m.' I did not say that I would recommend him, but simply that I would mention his case; and I intended to do So, but probably in different way from what he supposed I would. I thought there was some Arrangement of his mental organization, but to what extent I could mot say. When I went down to breakfast that morning I saw himiat the table as boarder. I called the landlady and asked her if she knew that gentleman. She mentioned his name and said he had told her that he was constituent of mine. I said: T think he is little s'off in his head, "' or something of that kind. She asked me what I meant and I said I thought he was kind of crazy, and that she had better not have him in her boarding house. That is about the conversation we had at that time."
 Cross-examination-Q. When did this conversation take place? A. I think it was about the 18th or 18th of March. .11 Mrs. Frances Scoville, sister to the prisoner, and wife to his counsel, gave her age as forty-five. She said the pris- -oner is forty years old. He was about seven years old when her mother died. Her first recollection of Charles was that he was troublesome child because he was very active and smart. He was sent to school when quite young-about six years old. His father punished him because he could not learn to talk, but that made no difference. After his mothers death he lived for year or so with his grandfather, and then came back to his father. Charles, when he was twelve years old, lived with witness for year in Chicago. where he went to school. She recollected nothing peculiar about him then except that he was very affectionate, and she was very much attached to him. Then he went to his father, and subsequently,, when he was seventeen years old, he came again to live with witness, near Chicago. He attended. school at the Commercial College, Chicago, and after that he went back to Freeport, and from there he went to Ann Arbor to attend school. She went to Ann Ar Dor to see him, as she had been informed that he was going on worse than her father had ever done. She found that he had abandoned his studies and was giving his whole time and atten- tion to studying the publications of the Oneida Community. She argued with him for whole evening, appealing to him to go on quietly like other young men and to give up all that stuff. Her appeals had no effect upon him, how ever, and she made up her mind that he was crazy. She told her uncle, who lived at Ann Arbor, to pay no more at- tention to him, but let him go his own way, as he was "clear gone daft" She afterward visited him at the Oneida Community, but could hardly have any conversation with him as they were not left alone moment together. She noticed that he acted like person who had been bewildered, struck on the head, or had partly lost his mind. She could not learn from him whether he wanted to leave the Oneida Community or to stay there.
 Guiteau's sister, Guiteau's brother, and Guiteau himself were on the wit ness stand in the trial Monday.
 John w. Guiteau said that for years he has not been on good terms with the assassin, and he once struck his brother and drove him from his office. Guiteau interrupted the witness to deny that any blow had been struck.
 Contrary to what Mir. Scoville has been trying to prove,- however, the witness asserted that his father was not insane. -----
 Several other witnesses testified con- cerning incidents in Gu1teau's life, and gave their opinions of his sanity. One said -Guiteau was either fool or crazy; :; another thought that his mind was cracked. Fernando Jones of Chicago, who had been one of the trustees of an insane asylum, testified that Guiteau' s m1nd was unsound when he knew him in 1878.