The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-12-06

teau. on read the papers l. Know. Have
you noticed come of them say you are en-
deavoring to fegn insanity by your actions
in the court?
Yes, replied Guiteau, see some of them
have said SO. They are all wrong. They did
not seem to understand. This is not an Or
dinary case at all. | am not only defend
ant but appear as :.y own counsel as we'll and
it is only proper for me to see that we arrive
al the truth That is all want l am not
insane. am just as sane as you are. l am
not pretending to be insane because am not.
[ am only trying to get at the truth. Was it
the deity or myself that was responsible for
the shet?
l should not think you would be so anx-
ious for the trnth as to save your neck. Sup
pose you should be found guilty and be sem
fenced to be hung? We have not reached
that point yet, replied Guiteau.
Well, it may not be very far.
The Lord has saved my life so far. l am
in his hands. will be in the lecture field
within year and will have S5U, 900 then. |
will pay all these little debts owe.
Suppose the jury should find yon insane?
Then 1 should be taken to the Insane
Asylum, suppose, until should get out.
Suppose they shonld convict me would get
new trial. l don't know but we will take
care of it when we get to it.
He spoke as lightly as though he was dis
cussing the case of Russian Nihllist whom
he had never seen and in whom he felt no
particular interest.
You claim then that you are sane?
Yes do, he said with his idiot like smile.
In certain sense l was insane when fired
the shot because was not II free agent and
did not commit the>act of my own vollti0n. |
had no control and therefore was irrespons-
BILE. In that seuse was insane. All want
is the truth to be brought out and that is
when make these corrections as the tr al
proceeds.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 25.-Hessy Helf-
man was safely delivered Of daughter Last
Friday in easement of Troubets koi Bastien
in the fortress. Mother and child are we'll.
Hessy Will probably receive free pardon in
consideration of the confessions she has made.
These confessions agree with those of Lieut..
Tonkenof. The immediate result will be
that the number of persons figuring in the ap-
preaching great trial will be raised from
| twenty-seven to sixty-two, and possibly far
more, as not only Hessy Hoffman and Lieut.
| ronkenoff, bat also Trijonl made confess
sion. 1t is quite likely that 200 persons may
| be tried in a batch.
New YORK, Nov. 2S. The iibune',
Washington special says man calling him.
self Wm. Stewart Hubbard, or Albert Ly.
man, registered this morning at the Arlington
House and again this evening at the Eobit
House, claiming to be from New York. A
one was given him. Soon after he was foun,
stripped to the flesh and when asked for :
deposit turned over an empty purse. IL
said he had come here to save the world an,
was to a certain extent Gutteau. He sait
he could solve the Gardsld problem, but ha,
not time, and that his intentions were foie
when .e was placed behind The bare
CHICAGO, Nov. 25. so far from Mrs
Abraham Lincoln being short of funds d
alleged in recent New York dispatches, he
come Of $4,000 arising from her pension an
Sc, 900 per year from the interest on S6OO0
government bonds, which have recently bee
called in thus reiucing that sourc" OF revenu
| W
since she came back from Europe year an
a half ago she ha. saved $1,000 from her il
celn@.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 26. A youth, III
der pretence Of state business, obtained a
audience o-day at the Min istry of the Ii
terror with General Tohrrevinp, who presid,
over the commission for mitigating sentence
7 As soon as he was admitted he fired revo
I yer at tie General, but the ball passed harm
t leSsly between his arm and side. The Gel
eral secured aud disarmed tha youth, WI
. said he was merely the instrument of anoI IL
person.
1 NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-The Her0laS L0
: don special says at the next meeting of Il
grand lodge of English free masons on De
$ 7th, the Grand Master, Prince of Wales, W
$ move that the grand lodge agree to vote
). confidence with the widow and fa aiily
:. their late brother James A. CART IL, Pre-!
S dent of the United States OF America, "
> died the 1oth of Sen. last from wound
7, ceived from the hands of an assassin.
e WELLS POINT, NoT. :1.~-A special sn
o the jury in the case Of he State vs.. Mrs. Fl
Peacock, for the murder of her husband
poisoning, found verdict Of guilty ofinur,
in the first degree and sentenced her to /
5 penitenciary for life. Hr, Ball. hes accompli
t, who was convicted and sentenced to impl
1t onment for life at the recentfterm OF
a Court, escaped.
nr HALIFAN, n. S., Nov. 2S.-The bank