The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-12-29
NUMBER l8.

lost patience with scoville, called him stupid
fool, !" aud congratulated himself and The court
on the probable Accession Of Charley Reed 70
the cs6e on the morrow.
While the court waited for Corkhill's witness
who was to confirm all that Shaw said,
Guiteau held forth on what he termed "the
%. R lie Sf the 1.Ss9 tho story a Of b.
for you, Corkhill. That was worth $5,O ,OOO
Did you get that much, Shaw? You ought to
have at least that. That ia tho most outrageous
lie ever heard" In the midst of his v;tupera-
lions the court adjourned until tomorrow,
Corkhill's witness not being forth coming.
FRIDAY, DEC %.
Two moro experts summoned by the defense
and placed on the stand by the government tes-
titled to-day in tho gloomy old courtroom that
Guiteau IL sane and responsible and WAS sane
and responsible on the day that he shot the
tendept Of IN asylum for the insane 1T Middle
town, n T., and DR.. Henry B. Stearns, ,superin-
tendent OF the Hartford institute for the Insane.
Hartford, Conn. testified that after careful
personal examination At tho jail and careful
personal obsel vAtions in the court room, they
had reached the conclusion that he was sare
and responsible, and in reply to the hypotheti-
leved him to have been perfectly sane and re-
sponsible IN tho I'd Of July. A severe cross
examination did not affec. the testimony Of
either. The prisoner saw, - every one elee
did, what holes were seut in tbs fabric Of his
case by such : broadside snd endeavored fire.
about his mind anyhow. He would not give =
snap Of his fingers for the testimony Of 800
experts. Az q last desperate resort he said:
The Lord will protect me. He will sec that
got justice. 1t may take All act of God TO 40 it.
One OF these mea may have to be taken od the
panel. Tho wife Of one OF them, am very
cory to say, hiss died It was very sad oc-
currenco. But another juror may have to be
tax en- OF by IN act of COD before l get justice;
but he'll see that eetit.
One other witness was examined, William A.
Edwards: law clerk from New York, = nor
'! you' ID aifl'dent lent, man, easily sonfr7,d. gho,
Of Chicago twho had been Introduced by Gui-
teau aa associate counsel with Scovtle) Slrned
out to be ono Of the most Q tertsining witness-
es put on the st and since Oficer Carney tes'i-
fed Csskhill cav as soon as the cro.s-ex. mi
nation bcgan that he had blundered in placing
NIT, without explanation, ,hstD. McIIeoa Shaw,
whose clerk he was and wloee testimony he
was called to corrobora'e, had been
indicted and tried for perjury; that Shaw
swors falsely when he SSH, in detailing the
conversation in his ofios ten years ago, wherein
GuteAu SAID ne prepOsed to win hotOrlety II
he bad to initiate Will es Booth; that Gu,teau
and he we're alone; that Shaw hsd ex ggeratad
the strength Of Guiteau's conversation; tn It
neither Shaw nor himself attat he'd any import
ance to the assertions Of Gni1eau, ard that
both Of them considered him @strang:"
Guiteau was ivelier than usual He talked
almost necessarily, 30 that but little progress
was made in tho trial
Tho following 10 fair specimen Of numer-
Gus Interruptions by Guiteau: Corkhill was
about to call wituees, when Guiteau broke
ont excitedly: s'There's vast amount of
rubbish getting into this case tnat has nothing
to do With It would like to know what this
has to do with my condition of mind on the
I'd Of July? You cant tell what is going on
now In that foreman's mind or Judge Cox's
How can You tell what was going on in mine on
tho I'd Of July! All this nonsense about
whether I'm insane now or was five years ago
has nothing Whatever to do with this case.