Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-12-10

| Witness was not 16eIlnB well, 30 ne u1Q not tTy
| to shoot the President that night.
| Judge Porter.-Did you think it would
| make you hotter to pull that trigger?
| Guiteau, (angrily and mimicking Judge
! Porter's manner of speaking. Now don't
| you put so much style on that trigger busi-
| ness.
In the course of the cross-examination wit
ness said Ihad to nerve myself up to it all
| the time.
Judge Porter.-Your conscience troubled
| Witness became very angry and excited and
retorted Conscience had nothing to do with
it, From the 1st of June 1 never had any
doubt of the necessity for the removal. The
act was the Dety's, and conscience has moth
ing to do with it.
Witness testified that he would never have
shot Garfield in the presence of Mrs. Garfield.
He did not wish to make a scene; did not
know what the effect would be on her, and 1T
would have been an indelicacy to the lady
Judge Porter.-Would this regard for Mrs.
Garfield have prevented you from obeying the
imperious mandate of the Deity.
Guiteau, with excitement. )-Ifyour head is
too thick to get this through, I'll pound it into
| your skull. ~
Guiteau then declined to answer further
and began to read newspaper, while there
was general laugh.
Being pressed for his reasons for wanting
| to go to Jail after killing the President, Gui-
| teau said, for my own personal protection. l
| didn't know what would be the effect upon
| the popular mind, and did not want to be
| exposed to a bowling mob. l thought they
would say, Oh, he's disappointed office
seeker, let's hang him up, and knew l would
have no time nor chance to make known my
motives and inspiration.
Judge Porter.-What is your theory of your
insanity?
Guiteau-I am not an expert let the jury
decide whether am insane. [Laughter.]
Judge Porter.-But you can give your own
statement.
Guiteau-My opinion is of no value am
not an expert, not iuryman, not the court.
l decline to discuss the matter. This subject
was pursued no further. The questions then
| turned upon the facts surrounding the assas-
sination.
Judge Porter.-You felt no more remorse
for shooting the President than you did for
breaking the leg of the puppy-dog, years ago.
| Guiteau-Why of course, SO far as l am
personally concerned feel a remorse-
Judge Porter.-( (solemnly) .-Remorse. My
| examination is done.
| Mr.. Scoville called for other witnesses, but
received no response, and court, at 2.3O, ad-
journed.
| WASHINGTON, DEC. 3.-The leading feature
of the Guiteau trial to-day was the evidence
of Hon. Emory A. Storrs, who testified that
| he had been acquainted with Guiteau for the
last eight or nine years, and saw him during
| the last presidential campaign in the rooms
of the Republican National Committee in New
York.
Odd YOU form any opinion as to his men,
| tai condition? A.-There was nothing in his
conversation about the headquarters in New
| York that would lead me to form an opinion.
Altogether had formed an opinion as to his
mental size. 2,
Q.-You can state what your conclusion
was? Al am not an expert on the subject
of insanity or any other medical topic. l have
stated about all have seen. I cannot express
an opinion as to his sanity or insanity. shall
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or insanity or as to the degree of any mental
difficulty under which he may have been
laboring. My impression was that he had an
| ill-balanced Judgment and an ill-baianced
mind, and did not have what the average man
would call good common sense.
Q.-You knew of the breach in the Repub-
| lican party which arose about the time of the
disagreement between the President and SEN
ator Conkling? Al knew of a disagreement
as to opinion am not prepared to recognize
the fact that there was breach.
Q.-State whether in that political differ
ence, there was an element that in your
opinion threatened positive and absolute
Fdisruption of the Republican party?
The Witness-I think the Republican party
is pretty difficult thing to disrupt and
while there was an element in that very de-
plorable controversy which would very seri-
ously affect it's success throughout the
country and its standing, my confidence in the
| good sense of the rank and file of that party
is so great that do not believe it would have
resulted in disruption. think it would have
| held together.
Mr.. Storrs was cross-examined by Mr.. Dav-
| idge as to the conclusion which he had formed
concerning Guiteaus mental condition. The
questions touching this point were objected to
by Mr.. Scoville, but were permitted by the
| court
Odd you see anything in his conduct to
indicate any want of capacity to determine be-
tween right and wrong? A.-No, sir. l have
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to believe that he could not distinguish be-
tween right and wrong.
Off you had missed your watch and had
reason to believe he took it. would you have
had him arrested? Al should have had
him arrested. l could not have got 1T any
other way-perhaps not then.
Q.-Nothing that came under your observa-
tion made you doubt the knowledge and appre-
citation of the prisoner for what is called
crime? Al never saw anything in the con-
duct of the prisoner that led me to Deneve
that he could not distinguish and did not know
the difference between guilt and innocence and
did not know what crime was
Mr.. Scoville took an exception to the ruling
of the court in admitting these answers as
testimony. He then resumed the redirect
examination, as follows:
| Odd you ever converse with the prisoner
on the subject of crime and its punishment?
A.-Never.
Q.-Or as to the right or wrong of any act
Al think we have talked about tne rlgnt OF
wrong of certain measures of politics.
think he talked about the democratic party
being right or wrong, and his views on that
subject conceded with mine.
Q.-Do you recollect conversation with me
in your Office in Chicago A.--Yes.
Q.-Do you remember telling me that you
considered him "off his base ?" A.--"Of his
nut"
Q.-what did you mean A.-That he had
an exceedingly ill-arranged and Unbalanced
mind, and lacked good sense.
Q.--Did you have any conversation with
him after April, 1881 A.--No, sir.
The witness then left the stand, and Mrs.
Scoville and j. Wilson Guiteau entered into
an excited coloquy, in which the former, in an
audible tone, declared that the witness had
perjured himself.
Honorable David Davis, of ILL.,, was called
his testimony was of political nature and
had no direct bearing on the insanity of the
prisoner, having never seen him nor knew
anything about him.
Other testimony given, the nature of which
has been given in previous testimony. The
trial seems to be lacking interest.