Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-30

1housHt 0ay necessary Iney couid apply 10 the
eve don't want to open the case IL your honor
please. 1nterlected the prisoner. 1--WE want a
chance TO refute some OF these false witnesses
JUDGE PoRTERs PROPOSITION.
Judge Porter suggested that the jury might be
separated by letting each go home attended by a
bailif. He remarked that 1t was an involuntary
Imprisonment to all engaged In the court, and
hlnted That 1t might result in death TO some.
'or insanity, Judge, observed Mr.. Dayidge.
REMARKS OF JUDGE cox.
Judge Cox said he thought the tendency of the
decisions was to allow the jury to separate. but
ne did not care to take the responsibility OF such
measure at this time.
JURYMAN SPEAKS.
MI Hamlfn. one of the jurors. rising in his seat,
said: "The jury don't desire to be parted at all"
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY REsESTs AN IMPUrATIoN
Mr.. Corkhill said that he did not think the jury
were so anxious to get home as they were to get
10 the end of the trial. AS district attorney he
would not like to risk having to go over the trial
again. He gave notice that the court would sit
tomorrow. The imputation cast upon the eX-
perts, that they had been meeting nightly and
Ng weaving meshes about the defendant, was dis
.'They testified to it themselves" broke in the
prisoner, 'every man there"
MANIFESTATIONS OF APPLAUSE.
he mad, the district attorney continued, woven
the meshes around himself He CNr. CorkhlD
OF the medical experts for the prosecution. The
only two men, he said, who dared to say this man
was sane were two spawnS Of the profession, who
were unable to say that they believed I'm God.
lsehSation and manifestations OF applause]
IheSe men are all high-tOned Christian men,"
broke In the prisoner; s'and good men, socially,
them.'
Judge Porter suggested that If this clamor was
continued that the court should remove tie dock
70 such distance from the jury that it would not
be annoying.
Judge Porter having made quite an Impressive
speech, the prisoner remarked: Do that again
Judge That's very sweet"
NR. SCovILLE REsENTs INVITATIONS
Mr. Scov1lle said it was unfair for the prosecu-
ton in this case to throw out imputations upon
the defence that they were unnecessarily pre-
longing the trial. He asked the prosecution to be
lair and courteous He said they had been six
weeks trying this case in order that the trial may
not pe disgrace to American Jurisprudence. The
deIe11e intended not to be hurried with an un-
see1nly haste In this matter.
when Mr. Scovlle sat down the prisoner ap-
piauded him, SayfIg: "That is a good speech"
The Government's Last Witness.
Dr. John P. Gray, OF Utica, N. Y, medical super
intendent Of the New York State Lunatic Asylum.
a position he has held for thirty-one years, was
then sworn. As the governments last witness
ne was asked the usual preliminary questions as
10 his experience, the meaning of the term in
sanity, hallucinatiOn. delusfon, &c. He had, he
said never formed or expressed an opinion OF the
prisoners mental condition before the trial.
Ihe witness having referred to a change in the
mna nass IN @ insanity, the prisoner said; That's my
easE; n shot nc the President M on the I'd OF July.
Wouldn't 90 1t again for 81. .0O0 Geo."
THE ABRAHAMIC CLASS
The witness having described in detail the vari-
Gus recognized forms OF insanity, the prisoner said
"You are very learned man, doctor, but you for
got the Abrahamic class. Give us something on
that. That is the class to which belong"
DEPRAvITY NOT INSANITY
Applications, the witness said, had often been
made to him to receive as patients persons of very
depraved lives, their friends believing that they
were insane. As their condition did not arise from
diseaSe they could not be considered insane The
witness said he had not for many years believed in
moral insanity. The term was intended to signify
condltOn or perverS1On OF the moral faculties
leaving the intellectual faculties still sound: the
WlCnesS could not conceive of any moral act with
out intellectual action. He could not dissever the
mental unity. No physical sickness could reflect
fact that man was an habitllai liar, an hab;tuai
cheat, migrate, &c, would not indicate insanity,
but deprayity. He knew of no form OF insanity
asylums. '1o
At 1925 the court took a recess till / O'clock
LIVELY SCENES DURING THE RECEsS
During the recess there were scenes of great
confusion in the court room owing to the desperate
struggle of the 'outs" to oust the ssinsn Deputy
Marshal Williams mounting the railing OF the bar
surveyed the tumultuous host and shouted out his
orders TO the various officers about the room
Some boys, seeking an eligible place, clambered
10 tne Top OF the little enclosure built around the
main entrance. They were quickly disOdged by
the officers and hustled forth. The officers had
much difficulty In keeping the space about the
prisoners dock clear.
DIR. GRAY FURTHER EXAMINED
when the court reconvened at one o'clock Dr.
Gray took his place On the stand, and District At
torney Corkhill continued his examination The
witness described in detail the examination he
made of the prisoner at the jail. The witness re-
counted at great length the interview between
himself and the prisoner at jail, in which the
prisoner went over his whole life.
GUITEAU COMPLIMENTS THE WITNESS
When the witness had been talking for about
half an hour, the prisoner, taking an advantage
of short pause while the window shades were
being drawn up, said: sits very Interesting
story, ! presume but ! suppose everybody has
repeated, though. The doctor is doing it very
well-putting in all the facts that gave him"
The witness said that he asked the prisoner II he
mad received the Paris cOnSulShip whether he
would have committed the crime He said that
that that would have prevented it, because he would
"That any time prior to the 1st Of June it would"
interrupted the prisoner; that after the 1st OF
June iwould have taken 1t. The making up OF
After that time wouldn't have taken the Paris
cOnsulship."
The prisoner told him, the witness said. that he
had resolved to do the crime on account of the
political situation.
GUITBAU AS HIS OWN LAWYER
"That kills the Paris cOnsulship idea" said the
prisoner, "and that kills the prosecution. They
never can con vict me OF murder in the world. as
they cannot show any malice"
The witness stated that Guiteau said his defence
was insanity, that he was legally insane.
"My defence Is that it was Gods act and not
mine, interrupted the prisoner.
The witness was about to read memoranda of
MS interviews, portions OF which, he said, he had
subsequently read to the prisoner
II nave no doubt that the doctor is man OF in
tegrfty," said the prisoner. sIf he happens to 20
thing"
Guiteau said {the witness continued) that he
considered the removal OF the President political
necessity; that he claimed to be legally insane,
&C. Witness asked him when he first thought of
this defence OF insanity, and the prisoner had re-
plied:-"I knew from the time conceived the act
that If could establish before the jury the fact
''1hat is substantially correct" broke in the
prisoner.
The witness further reported the prisoner as
saying :-sThat If the jury accepts my belief that
the removal was an inspired act, they bound to
Guiteau said (the witness continued) that he had
received no instruction, heard no voice of God,
saw no vision, but the thought or inspiration had
come into his mind.
The witness observed that the prisoner had told
him that he had never had anything to do with