The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-11-29
TELEGRAMS
Continuation OF Scoville's Speech.

at the Criminal Court this morning was SEN
sibly diminished on account of = rain storm.
While Guitteau was taking breakfast at the
City Hall he expressed dissatisfaction at the
release of Jones on bail. When Court was
opened Scoville made a formal request for
the papers which were taken froih Guitteau
at the time of his arrest, stating that they
were material evidence for the defence, aud
since the prose c;itioa had not needed them
he could see 10 reason why they should be
withheld.
The District Attorney offered to furnish
copies OF these papers, but Scoville insisted
on his rights in the matter and asked for the
original.
Pending the discussion Guittesu insisted
on being he ard and said: 81 can throw light
upon this. At tho time of my arrest l had
forty or fifty additional slips showing the po-
litical situation in May and June. These
slips show the action and the forces which
impelled me to shoot the President. They
are very important as showing the gist of tn.
whole matter. They were forty or fifty slips
denouncing President Garfield. 1t was by lv-
ing on such ideas as that | was finally ina
PEELED on to shoot the President. With my
INSPIRATION"
Col. Corkhill interpossd again, saying: 'If
will favor you to get through to-day | will
send for them"
During a momentary lull in the proceed
ings Guitteau again tried to make a personal
explanation, saying that he had used the ex-
preston yesterday that Julius was toe sug-
gestive of the negro race, and for that reason
he had dropped it from his name. His pre-
JUDGE was begotten twenty years ago. He
meant no disresrect to any person or any
race, particularly not to the colored race, for
they were more highly thought of than the
white race nowadays.
Scoville continued by reading a letter
written by Guitteau to his father, in which
he spoke of having gotten into some trouble
and in which he asked for money.
Guitteau explained the letter, saying:
Zone Of my clients--a miserable little whelp
Lad NE arrested en- account OF a little diff
ference of twenty dollars between us. As
soon as the District Attorneys attention was
called to the matter | was released. never
OuSlJ 70 nave Htell 2TIeSteu. puI IL SOb lLLo
the papers aud did me a good deal Of harm.
| had been in the theology business some
time, and, a. usual, was out of money. Tat
is all there was in that"
After the reaiing Of the letter was con-
cluded, Guitteau asa'n interrupted, saying:
= never got much FROM my father. He got
down on me because | left the Oneida CON-
munity. We could never after that agree in
that miserabley SINKING community business.
Il kept me cut Of fellowship with my father
Up to the tine of his DEATH
Scovil e, ~lesuming, referred to Gu;tteau's
career as a politician aud drew the conclu-
s on that his intellect was deficient. This
aroused the prisoner al once, aud he began 4
series of Interruptions, protesting against
Scoville's conclusions a. false. When refer !
ence was made to his RAINING around from
one committee room to another seeking to be I
employed as q campaign speaker and his 4
failure to obtain recognition were men /.
toned, Guitteau shouted angrily: st was ,
not because | had no ability, but l was not c
known. l had ideas, but not reputation.
They wanted big guns like General Grant !
and Senator Conklng-men who would q.
draw 7
In direct contradiction to his couassl's
declaration to the jury yesterday that Cult g
team was a man who never made a joke in t
his life, he looked up with an amused smile 4
aud added. II presume l would draw now +
This provoked general laughter, which WAS !
ro~rtIu .,,prra.Ea5 NV +1n IuAun -bo Az !,
dssvored to disguise a smile on hi. own a
features. /
Scoville continued upon the same line and t
criticized Guitteau's speech - Garfield h
VS.. Hancock" He sad it was a mere jumble y
of ideas collected from newspapers and from -
the speeches Of others. Ne one but
= crazy man woRld have imagined as Quit
teau did that this speech possessed any merit.
became N sre and more restless and :.
in the most excited manner shouted, $500 {
vile, | object to your theory en- that score, o
and when you try lie make out I'm a fool, ] Il
am down on you. | wan't you to tell the y
truth, but you needn't try to make me out q "
fool. say the Deity inspired my act and t
he will take care of it. | war the truth,
aud that's all there is about it." +
Col. Corkhill arose to protest against the '
interruption of the prisoner, when Guitteau
waived his hand to him patroniz' .ly and |
said: at is not necessary to make any re- ,
Colonel. Just let the natter Drop /
Scoville was willing to agree to any measure |
the District Attorney might suggest to re- 1
strain the prisoner. ,
Davidge hoped SOM suggestion would be
made to prevent outbreaks. He attributed :