The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-12-15
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THE ASSASSIN'S TRIAL.
The Great CUES tion of Guiteau's Sanity Now
Under Consideration by the Court
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Under Confederation BY the Court
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Guiteau 10 Playing tho Insanity Dodge Tor
All Is Worth.
Testimony Showing that He Has Deen =
| Hard Citizen. Lunatis or Otherwise.
| MONDAY, DEG 8.
| Guiteau was late in Iarriving at the court
house. An immense crowd lined the sidewalks,
and upon alighting from the van the assassin
eviRo ed unusual trepidaton, and begged the
officers to take him around to the back entrance.
trembling steps he quietly shuffled through the
angry crowd.
Dr.. Ksnnon, managing editor of the Chicago
| Medical Review, gave his opinion that Guiteau
was insane The witness based his judgement
Of Guiteau's insanity upon hereditary taint
and upon inspirations, which also include 4
| motive. Tho witness admitted that when q
| man committed . crime while acting under .
delusion Of divine inspiration and then conduct
| ed himself precisely 40 q criminal would do, it
would be presumptive against his insanity.
Guiteau (angrily)cYou are going too fast in
this matter. We want facts, not your Judge
ment The witness had stated the thing right
The lord injects into the spirit and then tells q
! man..to use his own judgement to work it 1t out
That's just in my caee That's the way got
! to do his work. He gets the best material.
Guiteau suddenly interrupted the examina-
ton, and despite Scoville's efforts to restrain
him, broke out in severe oenunciation Of his
| wife, saying he had just noticed discourse
| from her which was full of mis-statements,
and if she came into court to testify against
him he would show her ND.
Richard J. Hinton, editor of the Washington
| Gazette, had seen the prisoner at the repnbli-
can headquarters in New York, and formed tho
balanced and egotistic. The witness resumed
by saying that the prisoner seemed to be per-
feet nuisance about the rooms, but was inter
rupted by Guiteau, who retorted:. 'sYou we're
. nuisance yourself I'd rather be hung as
any more of this kind Of evidence">
DR.. Chas. A. Nicholas, Of Bloomdale asylum,
replied to hypothetical question proposed by
Scoville: 'lf the evidence to which have lis
tened is correct, should say the prisoner is
insane"
DR.. Folsom, of Boston, thought if the hypo-
thetical proposition put by Scoville WIS correct
in all particulars, the prisoner was ins ane when
he shot President Garfield.
DR.. Samuel Worcester, of Salem, declined to
express an opinion until counsel explained
what he me ant by the term 'inspirafional.
| Guiteau, impatiently -"When it is au inspira-
ton by the Deity on my mind Of thought and
| power foreign to my own will and mind
That's what's meant I've told you dozen
! times"
Witness was finally told by Scoville to stand
| aside
DR.. VIM. ". Godding, Of the government
asylum for the insane at Washington, thought
that at the time get forth in the hypothetical
question, if it were true, the prisoner was un-
doubleday insane.
DR.. James Il. Mcbride, of Milwaukee. and
| DR.: Charming, of Brookine, Mass, also thought,
taking all the hypothetical propositions to be
=: 81: y; + Fisher, 81 Boston would dislike to
in the hypothetical questions, but if compelled
to answer he would say he should Judge
| the prisoner was insane. Witness was informed
by the prosecution they would want him as
| witness.
Scoville announced that he had no moro
or three more before closing the case.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6.
Charles B. Farwell, member Of congress
from Chicago, related how Guiteau called upon
him and wanted money to buy the Inter Ocean,
and told the witness if he would loan him
$1,000 ! he would s. make him president Of
out emphstical!y '*rhat is faisel
osition. ' I asked him to invest some money og
In the enterprise, but he eaid he had already
put 81 900 in the Inter Ocean and would not
the prisoner = cans nan. Farwell was asked
whether Guiteaa eeuld distinguish between
| right and wronG. e2a amidst protests from &c.,
vile and Guiteau, - answered: ''There were
grades Of insanity ,snd did not think the prisoner
so insane but that he could distinguish between
exception. Guiteau cried excitedly, II W ant
this understood right here. / will put atop
to all this irrelevant nonsense. acted from
inspiration. Judge Cox, well that will do?"
Judge Cox replied to the prisoner, ''You have
said that MANY times, and you were not to in
terrupt the court again"
| George Gorhsm, editor of the Republican
| took the stand. A discussion ensued between
counsel upon the form Of a question in which
Gu1tesu insisted on taking part: Turning 70
cracked yourself on this subject. won't have
| your line Of defense. It's altogether too mar
| row." Gorham was told to step down when
Guiteau shouted out, "Come back. Gorham
| was relieved for the present The prisoner be-
| came involved in an angry alteration with
violent and denounced him as No politician and
no lawyer. s'You insinuated yourself upon the
| defense just because you happened to be my
brother law" Judge Porter undertook Ia
address the court, when Guiteau shouted i'm
Judge Porter. You are altogether too taltatiVt
| this morning." Scoyille stated that he desired
to have President Arthur testify in the case, and
also Grant and Conkling. The rest Of the time
was occupied in reading Guiteau's booh
truth"
WEDNESDAY, DEC. z.
The assassin was brought in as usual. look.
Ing very much as he did yesterday, an odd little
wretch dark suit, wl,ito shirt and etanGine
collar encircled by an eminently respectable
black necktie carefully tied. Above tho black
tour, with rough ekin, pimpled on the fore.
head, and close cut hair: He is eninently re-
pulsive in appearance at all times. When he lie
angry he becomes snarling brute
He addressed the court as soon as his hand.
cuffs had been placed In the drawer Of the
counsel table, on the old subject The ques-
ton, the principal question, was as to his a.
phcatlons OF last summer; and yet Scoville,
laundering along on another theory, had sum.
moned none Of the great leaders Of the repub.
ioan party to testify respecting it He wanted
the court to issue the subpenas he asked for
yesterday. OF course the court again declined,
and Guiteau, changing his pleading tone to
one OF determination, fercely demanded an OK
ceptiOn to the ruling
John Wilson Guiteau was in tears when his
brother concluded the story of his suffering
and privations during his tour. he could
scarcely command his voice when he spoke to
him, but the hard hearted assassin half sneered
1t him as he snorted out: 'And what are you
crying at now"
Gen: Sherman was called to identify the let
ter written by Guiteau.
As he left the stand Guiteau said, sI thank
you, general, for having ordered out the troops
IT Chat DAY: II It hadn't been for you wouldn'y
be here to-day: I owe my life to the protection
which you and MIR. Croker gave me during
that period when the mob spirit was rife" AT
this the general smiled grimly E. P. Barton.
lawyer, A. L. Green and G. W, Londe, all Of
Freeport. Ill, testified that they knew the
Guiteau family and considered them all cane
DR.. North was the most positive witness in.
troduced by the defense, and by his showing
the entire Guiteau family were more or less in
| sane
THURSDAY, DEoElDR 8.
Az soon % the criminal court opened thil
morning, 6uiteau shouted out: "a Drank il
Chicago says talked with him about this case
I don't knew the man. Il is false" Col
| RQckHa1l called "A the first Rifnaaa Of tho IA.