The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-27
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GUITTEAU.

Guitteau trial, gave additional tes-
timony to this effect A question
was put, From what you saw of the
prisoner on those occasions, and
from what was said and done by
him, did you form an opinion as to
his mental soundness or unsound-
ness :?
Witness am not an expert. and
do not know whether [ should an
swer this question.
The COurt-Hou may give an
opinion in accordance with your OBJ
servatien.
Witness thou5ht there was
some arrangement in his mental
organization but to what extent
could not say. When 1 went down
to breakfast that morning, l saw
him at the table as a boarder.
called to 1.-THE landladyR and asked
her if she knew that gentleman.
She mentioned his name and said
he had told her he was a constitu-
emit of mine.
What was your expression of
opinion to the landlady that time
/ said this: I don't think he is a
proper person to have
in your boarding house
She asked why, and l said think he
is q little of in his head; or some
language of that kind. She asked
he what l meant, and l said ]
thought he was a little crazy, and
she had better not have him in her
boarding house. That is about the
conversation at that time. The
crosS-eXamination was very brief
and no new points were developed
In the course of Mrs Sceville's ties.
timony the following occurs
When Charles was twelve years
old, he lived with the witness q
year, in Chicago, where he
went to school. She recollected
nothing special about him then
except that he was very affection.
ate and she was much attached tC
him. Five or six years later, he
went to Ann Arbor to school. She
went to Ann ArbOr to see him, as
she had been informed he was going
on worse than his father evel
had done. She found he haG
abandoned his studies anG
was giving his whole time
and attention to studying the
publications of the Oneida com.
munity. She argued with him fol-
a whole evening, appealing to him
to go on quietly, to live as othel
young men, and give up that stuff
Her appeals had no effect upon him
however, and she made up hel
mind that he was crazy. She told
her uncle, who lived at Anr
Arbor, to pay no more atten
ton, but to let him go his
own way, as he was clear gone daft
She afterwards visited him at tht
Oneida community, but had hardly
any conversation with him, as they
were not left alone a moment to
gether. She noticed that he acted
like a person who had been be
reaved, struck on the head, or who
had fairly lost his mind.
The Prisoner-I had been there
three years at that time, and was
right in the heart of their fanati
cism.
The witness went on to relate
the prisoners history, including his
admission to the bar, at " hich she
was very much surprised; his mar
riage and his separation from his
wife down to the time he visited
her in Wisconsin in 1875. She no
ticed then a great change in his per
sonal appearance. He was also
very hard to get along with, aud
used to get in a hifolutin state. He
seemed willing to do anything he
was told, but got very much be-
logged and could not do it. She re-
lated an incident of his attacking
her with an ak. She had given him
no provocatiOn, but had got out OF
patience with him. 1t was not the
axe that frightened her so much as
the look of his face. He looked Ike
q wild criminal