Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-15

urged Mr. Henry not 10 let the community be
uisgraced 6y the inability or unwiinGaess OF
me authorities to protect the prisoner. Mr.
Henry said the danger was not outside. but in
the courtroom. ard that he had distributed his
officers so as to protect the prisoner. He (Mr.
Scoviie) said that in his opinion the danger was
outside. If they had not sufficient officers they
should get them. Not getting any satisfaction
from Mr.. Henry. he went to District Attorney
Cefkhsli. and was told by Mr.. Corkhili that he
would do what he could to protect the man
That same afternoon. continued Mr. Scoylle as
the prisoner was being taken back to Jail. he
was shot at. distance Of four Or five inches
would have terminated Ills life and what he had
said TO the marshal would have been true"
= ain here continued Mr. ScOvle Ito see
that he has fair trial; to see that the evidence
for anu aZaiiist him Is properly presented ia the
court; 5ut | am not here with troop Of soldiers
to guard that prisoner; am not here to direct
tie police: | ain not here to instruct the court
officers; viii do my best to present the evil
dence. say to YOU. my fellow-citiZens say to
the public: / say to the authorities, that unless
some such precautions are taken as have not
Yet been taken. this man will not live to the end
OF the trial Let the responsibility rest where
IL may. i give this warning. fApplauSe.l 1t
was not SO much, the speaker said. for the life
OF this man that he made this statement; 1t was
because he wanted to see law and order pre-
vail. Applause He did not want the dis
grace to attach to this country that a man on
trial for his life was left to be assassinated like
dog before the trial ended. In order that they
might understand little more definitely his
idea OF the danger, he would say what he feared
HOW 1T MIGHT BE DONE.
Every day when the prisoner is taken out he
passes some fifty OF sixty feet through the crowd
to reach the van. Most of the people probably
were well disposed people. who wanted to see
how the prisoner looked and acted. It. was.
however. the easiest thing in the world for SIX
ten or twenty desperate men to get into that
crowd. rush in upon the officers. and for one to
stab the prisoner with dirk and drop the knife
upon the pavement. No one could know who
had done 1t. 1t was. on the ether hand. the
easiest thing i'm the world for two or three
policemen to keep that passage clear. In
Chicago. he knew if a crowd should collect on
the sidewalk like that which gathered in front
OF the courthouse, the police would make them
move along OF course the prisoner might be
shot at. even if the people we9e twenty OF thirty
feet away. but there was one source of danger
removed if the crowd was dispersed That
matter had been brought to the attention of the
authorities, yet they permitted such condition
OF affairs TO remain. lApplause.]
A Garfield Avenging Club.
Mr.. Scoville here read the following letter as
a sample of the threatening letters which he re-
ceived:
WASHINGTON. n. j., December 10, 1881.
Mr.. ScoriUe:
SIR: This is to inform you that represent the
president OF Garfield Avenging Club In this city,
and that, should you succeed in clearing Guiteau
our band, with others in this state, will deal JUS
tlce to yen and all concerned I'm court. Beware!
In revenge, DANIEL f. BEATTY,
Mayor, Washington, N. j.
Mr. Scoville said he attached little Importance
to such letters but there was remarkable COIN
cdence i'll the fact that all Of these writers
Claimed a designation similar to this OF the
" AVENGERS
ing Club
HIS OPINION OF JUDGE cox.
He could not pass. he said. without express
ing his sincere admiration Of Judge Cox. ZAP
plause. Il say it here" said Mr. Scoville.
because it would not be proper thing for me
to say i'll court. do not think more learned.
careful. conscientious judicial mind could be
found in the country" Judge Cox he said. had
been criticised extensively for his conduct in this
case, but in his CIR. ScOville's) opinion wholly
without cause. Here was man on trial whose
defence was insanity. The defence was true or
not true. Either Judge Cox had to PREJUDICE
the Case and assume that the prisoner was
sane, or else do just as he had done.
Surprising he was insane. would it
be proper for him to apply the same rules to the
prisoner as to a sane man? Gag an insane mani
What spectacle. Would not Judge Cox then
be ASSUMING that he was a sane man? Judge
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right judge ought to do. He could not order
the prisoner out of the court room; it would be
OF little avail if he should fine him or imprison
him tor contempt of court The speaker said he
was not defending Guitcau for his conduct in
the court room; he had done what he could to
keep him still: nothing had panied him more
during the trial than the reflections in the public
press upon Judge Cox. because he knew these
things We're unjust and uncalled for. Referring
10 9u'teans antecedents he said the family were
descel'ients from the French Huguenots driven
from Flance for their religious opinions
THE GCITEAU FAMILY
Mr. Scoville here gave rapid sketch of the
hegira OF the HuguenOts. and the part they have
played in this country. The services rendered
by that class of people in the Revolutionary war
he said. was very material. Bancroft said that
those French Protestant refugees had reason tn
be proud Of their lineage MFR. Scoville then gave
a short history of the immediate family ante
cedentS Of the prisoner The chief remark i'm
the brief history OF DR.. Francis Guiteau was that
he was Baptist. and exceedingly sensitive on
the subject of religion. His wife was Scotch
Irish woman, who very frequently forgot, in her
zeal Tor religion. the commonly accepted tokens
oil Christianlty-gentlene and meekness. She
was earnest. sincere and vigorous as a Christian
OF the ten children. at least four were insane,
and this grandchild. rs he claimed had inherit ed
this tant. This subject of insanity the sneaker
said was an interesting one. Since he had en-
tered upon the threshold of this science he had
become completely absorbed in it. and he won
dered that so little attention was paid to it.
Why. there are poor people wandering all over
the land whose brains were diseased Peopie
could not see that like they could bodily deform-
tiles. and gave little thought to it, In the early
stages of insanity it was almost uniformly cura-
Die. and statistics showed that seven or
eight out of every ten could be cured.
taken in hand early enough Il was
thought that if there was insanity i'm the family
there was a great dark spectre broodine over
the house. In the Guiteau family. for this
reason. the children were not told that there
was insanity in the family. daughter here of
one OF these sisters never heard. until she ar
rived in this city few days ago. that she had
an uncle who died in an insane asylum 1t
was kept from her
MR. SCOVH.LE DENIES 4 NEWSPAPER STORY
He received yesterday newspaper slip in
Chicago. stating that a woman servant, for
merry employed in his family, had asserted that
the assassination was talked over in the SEQ
vile family as long ago as last May. and giving
other details. indicating that the whole family
was iii aconspiracy. The fact was said Mr. SEQ
vile. that on Friday. the 1st of July his wife
and himself were in Wisconsin. and on that day
he received a dispatch from client in Chicago.
Mr.. Il. W. Gates. to immediately pO tn WaShinr-