Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-09
GUITEAU'S BAD RECORD.
HE DENOUNCES A WITNESS.
THE GOVERNMENTS TESTIMONY
FREQUENT INTERRUPTIONS BY THE PRISONER.

FREQUENT INTERRUPTIONS BY THE PRISONER
1t was Just as usual at the court house this morn
1ng-a throng of men and women pushing and
showing at the doors, and a crowd In the Criminal
Court room, where the trial of Guitean ter the
murder of President Garfield Is In progress The
usual proportion OF ladies in the crowd was main.
ta1ned. despite predictions that owing to the Pc
culiar turn taken in the testimony last evening
there would be a diminution in their attendance.
Among the notables present this morning were
congressman Bliss, OF New York, and Klotz, OF
pennsylvania. The court was called to order
promptly at 10 O'Clock, the Judge having arrived,
contrary to the custom of the trial. before the
jury.
GUITEAU WANTS THE EVIDENCE AS TO HIS ExPUL-
SION FROM CHURCH STRICKEN OUT.
Dr. X. s. Macarthur was immediately recalled to
the stand. Mr.. Corkhill was about to proceed to
question the witness when the prisoner began to
eXpostulate loudly with Mr.. Scoville.
"Do it YOURSELF" said the prisoner. 'sIf you don't
do 1t am going to-"
Mr. Scovile, thus urged, rose and said that in the
was so free to talk not understanding the rules of
evidence, and therefore saying many things that
were inadmtssible and had nothing to do with the
condition of the mind OF the prisoner-his state
ments being calculated only to prejudice the jury
therefore he {Mr. Scovile) moved to exclude the
evidence referring to the charges brought against
eyes," shouted the prisoner as Mr.. Corkhill was
rS1ng TO reply ut Is purely tn the nature Of
Dr. Macarthur, who is good man, though he is
no lawyer, to come here and detail what said to
Mr.. Corkhfll said that the witness had stated
what he had to explain on what he based his judg-
ment @ as to the prisoners sanity.
me court said that ordinarily the objection
raised by Mr.. ScOvlle would be sound; but in this
case, when the prosecution were attempting to
snow that the prisoner was actuated by moral OBJ
tuSeneSS, 1t was admissible.
MI Scovil1e submitted to the ruling OF the court.
GUITEAU THINKS THE ''MoRAL DEPRAv1TY" TEsTI-
MONY ALI. NONSENSE
$50 1ar as moral deprayity is concerned, that is
all nonsense" said the prisoner. He then went
On with his usual defamation about the money
he owed and his intention to pay it.
The court remarked that it was unnecessary to
repeat that
81 want that to go out to the public" said the
prisoner.
Here's the little Republican comes out here and
prints it out 'Guteaus Rascaiity, and that is the
to reporter. "If he don't stop it viii go and
see Gorham about it."
The witness testified that he never thought the
prisoner or unSOund mind.
THE PRISONER TURNS ON MR.. CoRKHIIL
The prisoner, being excited, broke in again, say
ing to Mr. COrkhiIl: "You needn't drag up my
record; your record is as bad as mine. i UNDER
stand you are booked for removal. The President
Is only waiting to get this case of before he will
give you ticket OF leave"
The witness was sharply crOSs-eXamied by Mr.
Scoville, but nothing new was elected
Before DR.. Macarthur left the stand he produced
his church records, which were submitted In evi-
dence.
ANOTHER FREEPORT WITNESS
DR.. W. S. Colwel, of Freeport, was next called
and testified to attending L. W. Guiteau in his
final illness, Which was a type Of dropsy; he saw
no disturbance Of mind until near death, when he
had the ordinary delirium common to such cases,
caused by the poisoning OF the blood by the mac
ton Of the liver Upon cross-examfnation he said
he thought there would be more likelihood of men,
tal disturbances in such cases when there was
prediSpOSitiOn to insanity than when there was
not.
THE IRREPREssIBLE PRISONER BREAKS OUT AGAIN.
Geo. w. Plummer. young Chicago lawyer, was
next called.
81 owe Plumrner saO, said the prisoner: ut will
cost the government 500 to prove that fact" The
prisoner went on, In the midst OF confusion, with
harangue addressed to Mr.. Corkhill, winding up
with the statement: "You win make this trial cost
$2O,c00 or 0.000, the way you are doing it,"
The witness said he met the prisoner in Chicago
in 1874; he came from New York and rented desk
m ate; the prisoner seemed to be doing collec-
J; Gulteau," New York, and said bis Clients We're ere
''Thats true interrupted the prisoner.
"He said, also" the witness continued, "that he
was high-toned, too and he wanted his cards to be
in harmony with both his clients and himself"
Mr. Corkhill asked the witness ii he had had any
financial M II transactions al sac with the prisoner:
mer is a very good fellow"
The witness explained transaction in which
he & had had some trouble in getting pay for desk
paid, and that Guiteau owed him nothing. The
witness said the prisoner thought, he could do
better on theology and would leave law.
didn't fhpO1OrV IN 70 ~ In
terrupted the prisoner. 81 don't reccllect that
conversation. You must have made that up out
The witness described at some length the prfs-
oner's Inter- ocean scheme and was frequently in
terrupted by the prisoner, who once said: 1had
the brains, but not the money. II had had less
brains and more money would have gotten along
better"
LAUGH, IN WHICH GUTTEAU JOINED.
After the witness had been interrupted several
ttmes he turned to the prisoner and said: SIT
seems that your close relation with inspiration
and the Deity has corrupted your manners" This
raised laugh, in which the prisoner joined.
.That isn't very bad, though, for western pun,"
said the prisoner; that's pretty good"
- The witness said he never saw anything about
Gufteau that led him to believe he (the pTisOner)
was insane. 81 think, said the witness, he was
a man OF considerable ability, but somewhat con-
expected that" He said the prisoner was better
hammered then than now, and did not interrupt.
:" did not have you on the stand" said the pris-
ever did In my life before, because am after alb
bOlute truth. II man comes on this stand and
talks iot about me that amt true, am going to
The witness said, In answer to Mr. Scoville that
ne dld not think the IRteT-Ocean scheme was an
insane one, as such wild schemes were common.
WHAT SURPRISED Mr.. PLUMMER
Mr.. Plummer having related some facts regard
Ing Guteau's lecturing scheme, Mr. Scoville asked
what ne thought there was surprising in that.
ut isn't often," said the witness, .that q man
changes from law to theology SO Rapidly. There
are Two or three steps from law to religion. WAS
also somewhat surprised from the fact that when
GulIeau was with us he was not SO piOus.n
When the prisoner first came to their Office he
SAID ne had been consul at MarselleS
Ihe prisoner denounced this as false
A NEW YORK WITNESS.
SANFORD Hawse, OF the marine court In New
York, testified to seeing the prisoner In New York
In 1879, and renting desk room in his Office to him
with the usual result Of an unpaid bill; he occu-
pied desk room with witness for eight months and
during that time witness had never noticed any,
thing IN the prisoner that Indicated unsound mind
GUITEAu CALLS WITNESS LIAR AND PERJURER
stephen English, editor and proprietor OF the
Insurance Times, OF New York, was next called to
the stand
MI. English" said the prisoner, "was In Lud-
N~v vA An& &>S Ac