Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-05

Prominent Witnesses Vice President Davis and Emory storrs Testify i'm the
 Guiteau Trial-The Prisoner Spends
 One Quiet Day in Court.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Guiteau made little
 demonstration during yesterdays proceed
 ings, the effect of Judge Porter's terrible
 cross-examination showing itself in his list
 less and dispirited attitude. It seemed as
 though, for the first time since the commis-
 sion of his dastardly crime, the shadow of
 the gallows loomed in conscious vision over
 his head. In his manner toward Porter on
 Thursday and Friday, shaking his bony fore-
 finger at the gray-haired lawyer, his small
 eyes snapping with unsuppressed wrath, his
 teeth gleaming like an animals between half
 opened lips, it could hardly be doubted, had
 pistol been within the grasp of that threat ening hand, he could not have controlled
 himself from making second victim. Yes terday he shamb1ed into the court room, his
 head bent forward and his eyes bent on the floor. He held up his hands mechanically
 to be unshackled, but did not afterward, as
 always hitherto, hustle about among his pa
 pers or demand the attention of the court with strident insistence. Nor even when one
 of the witnesses quoted some previous re-
 mark, that he was crazy fool, did the pris-
 oners overweening vanity prompt him to au
 indignant protest. He did not raise his eyes,
 nor was there an expression on his evil face
 It was only when the questioning touched
 upon the political rancors of last spring and
 summer which he has claimed first suggested his crime, that he showed interest in what
 was going on. Then he was in quick atten- tion. His eyes gleamed as before, and he in- terr upted the proceedings. ''That's the way they talked then," he said. ''That shows
 that Garfield was trying to crush out the Stalwarts," and the like. He was again building up for himself structure of ex- cuses for the murder.
 The first two witnesses were called yester- day by MT. Scoville to show that Guiteaus mother was confirmed invalid at the time of his birth. He asked them particularly, why he did not make evident whether she wore white cap at that period of her life. Emory A. Storrs, the Chicago lawyer, who has been named for Cabinet position, was next called. He is the type of a shrewd
 lawyer, and told his story as though he were reading from brief At one point he de- scribed the prisoner as 'soff his nut,'' slang expression which he did not seem to repent of, but explained that it meant the prisoner had an extraordinary i'll balanced mind and | lacked common sense. He had known Gui- | teau as young lawyer in Chicago and saw much of him during the campaign while l they were both frequently al. Republican headquarters in New York and in Washing ! ton. About the middle of April Guiteau met him in Washington on the street, and \ would have importuned hina, he thought, for | his influence, had he (the witness) not fore stalled that by assuring Guiteau of his own bad odor with Secretary Blaine. After that | he said Guiteau took no pains to seek him | out. His answers to Mir. Scoville's interrog ! atories on political matters were listened to ! with great attention by the audience, but | Guiteau was still inert and apparently un. \ needing. To the leading question by MT. ! Davidge, whether he thought Guiteau re | sponsible for his act-whether if he stole | MT. Storrs' watch Mir. Storrs would have him arrested-the witness promptly replied ! that he would. Mir. Storrs had evidently | prepared beforehand what he said as to the \ political situation prior to President Gar. ! fields death His references to the conflict | within the party were uttered with great de liberation. He thought the Republican par. \ ty very difficult thing to disrupt, and while | he recognized.an clement in the unfortunate controversy that existed in the party, priol ! to and during the campaign, that would very seriously affect it's success throughout the \ country, his confidence in the good sense oi the rank and file of the party was so great
 that he did not believe it would result in dis ruption.
 1 The next witness created a sensation as he 1 took the stand. His eyes shone from within cavernous sockets, his hair was long and black and his complexion was the yellow pal | Tor of death. This was Edward Daniels, who | seems to be well known character in Wash. ington. He had paid no attention to the