Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1881-11-25
TRIAL OF RE ASSASSIN.
Wednesdays Testimony = Guiteau's
Former Insanity Discussed -
Guiteau Dlsgusted.

Guiteau Dlsgusted.
WASHINGTON. November 23.-John A.
Rice OF wiscopsin,a practicing physician
Of twenty-six years, testified that he
examined the prisoner in 1876 and came
to the conclusion that be was insane.
His insanity was emotional. rather than
intellectual. There appeared to DO an
impairment Of judgment. but NOT much.
IL any. impairment Of intellect. He
told Guitsau's friends that 10 should be
secluded. Witness treated Guitsau's
father. he did not consider him insane.
He did not see Guiteau after he had
run away from Beaver Lake, Wisconsin.
The prisonsr-I returned to Chicago
and opened o law Office. ! did not run
away.
Frank L. Union Of Boston, testified
to hiring Guitsau Investigator Hall. His
bills proclaimed: "Do not fail TO hear
Hon. Charles ]. Guitsau. the Little
Giant OF the West. He will show that
two-thirds Of the race are going down to
psrditisn."
The prisoner - That Is liberalism.
Laughter.
witn.ss-Thsre were about city per.
o n ut the lecture. At the end Of halt
m hour the lecturer evidently became
disguised with himself and LETT the hall
in q great hurry.
The pr~isonsr-I was Disguised with
the audience.
witness-Aftsr hs had gone the audi.
sncs agreed that the man was crazy.
Guiteau came the next day and asked
for the hall. and he said he was not
crazy. but inspired; that God was the
father and direct counselor. and be did
nothing wrong. he said in q serious
manner that he belonged to the firm Of
Jesus Christ & Co. BE was sure he
(tbs witnsss) was doomed. (Lauehtsr.
He said he knew the way to heaven and
hell and II 10 (ths witness) did what he
told him he would 60 to heaven; II not,
to hell.
Norwood Damon. Of Boston, who at.
tended the lecture In Investigator Hall,
said that all no could understand from
the lecture was that tho people OF Bos.
ton and the rest OF mankind generally
would 60 down to perditOn. I supposed
the man. was insane.
George w. Weeds. OF Michigan. testi-
fed to Mrs. Scoville's charging Guiteau
with being crazy, saying that be had at
tempted to kill her. and asking witness
to put him of the place. Witness re-
lated how Guiteau rooted hickory trees.
insisting that they were fruit trees, and
how. when wedding. he pulled up more
strawberries and turnips than weeds.
Tho prisouer-I think We have had
enough OF this kind OF talk. Ito Sco-
Vile, who tried to keep him quist)-
Keep quiet yourself. Ito the Court)-
The fact Is, during the fall OF 1875 l
spent several months trying to get hold
OF tho Chicago Inter OCEAN. I exhausted
myself on them. and along In the spring
I had not much business. Mrs. Sooville
had o very fus farm and country seat In
Wisconsin. and I went out there in the
summer OF 1873 to spend Q couple Of
months. I did try to do some farming
work to pay for my board. That Is all
there Is to that kind OF talk. went
back to Chicago and opened . law Office
and did we'll there. ! always did we'll
With the law when I stuck to my bust
ness.
TopAY's PROCEEDINGS.
WASHINGTON, November 25. The
criminal court was crowded, mostly BY
ladies representing the fashionable cir.
clss.
Scovills stated that Guitsa u desired to
make Q statement. Nc objection being
made. Guiisau read from manuscri pit
substantially as follows:
"I propose to have oil the facts bear
ing on this case to 60 TO the Court and
jury, and TO de this I have been forced
to interrupt the counsel and witnesses
who were mistaken as to supposed facts.
I meant no discourtesy to them or any
0ne. Any iact In my career bearing on
the question as TO who fred that shot,
the Deity or myself, Is Of vital import.
auce in this case, and ! propose to have
It 90 to the Jury, that my personal, po.
lltical and theological record may DO de-
veloped.
am glad ysur Honor aud opposing
counsel are disposed to give historical
review to my lie. and I ask the press
and public to do likewise. All I want IL
absolute justice and I shall not permit
n crooked work. / have M idea that
my counsel want crooked work, but
they are often mistaken on supposed
facts aud I shall have to correct them.
Last spring certain newspapers In New
York and Washington were bitterly do.
nouncipg the President for breaking up
the Republican party by improper ap-
pointments. I would like those news
papers to reprint those editorials, and
how would they look and sound now 2
In attempting to remove the President
I only did what the papers said ought
to be done. Since July I'd they have
been defying the President and do.
nounoing me for doing the very thing
they said ought to be done. I want the
newspapers and doctors who actually
killed the President 10 share with me
the odium Of his death. / never would
have shot him Of my own volition, not
withstanding those newspapers, II I had
net been commissioned by the Deity to
do the deed; but this fact does not
relieve the newspapers from the sup
posed disRraso Of the P~rssident's death.
II he had been properly treated he would
have been alive today. It has been pub.
lished that I Am In fear Of death. It 10
false. / have always been q religious
man and an active worker for God.
Some people think I Am . murderer. but
the Lord does not, for he inspired the
act, as in the case Of Abraham and 0
score OF other cases In the Bible. The
assault made upon me on Saturday last
by q crank has been condemned by the
press. The eyes Of the civilized world