Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-12-02

look of embarrassment as well as humor pass
ed over the dark face.
There can be no question that the pris-
oner has the most effective counsel possible
Mr.. Scoville has yet to make the first mis-
take in his conduct of the case. He is mod
est, unassuming and makes no pretensions to
skill in criminal proceedings. His peculiar
situation wins for him sympathy, where the
smartest criminal lawyer would have to incur
odium from his connection with the case
Then, too he has been shrewd enough TO
confine the defense TO one issue, the only one
that can have any weight. The attention of
the jury is not distracted. He discards all
legal quibbling, and shows that in his appre-
citation of the enormity of the crime, and
sorrow for the results, he is in full sympathy
with the American people. If Guteau is not
insane and therefore irresponsible for the
deed, he would be the first to bid the hanging
God speed. 1t is because he believes the
prisoner insane, and the responsibility for the
crime lies back on the state of politics that
wrought upon his diseased brain, that he
stands in court in his present relations; and
such marks does he bear about him of the
, sincerity of his belief, that it cannot fail TO
have weight with the jury. The reporters
have not done Justice to the effectiveness OF
, the closing passage of his opening address.
Col Corkhill read his speech from manu-
script, in a manner characteristic of the aver
" age pulpit orator. As consequence 1t ap
peared TO full advantage in print. But SEQ
:, Vile spoke in a rambling, conversational way
u with no attempt at oratory, giving opportun
y ity from time to time to address few earnes
!, |, words of personal appeal, sensible, truthful
IL and fitting with such an accent of convictio
10 as to produce effects secured only by the higf
u est oratorical skill. The applause which TO
90 lowed, from spectators detesting his COZ
~ temptible client, gave indication of his lnti'
-, ence with the jury.
20 Curiously enough, the Judge and MIR. Sc
willie bear striking resemblance to each 9TH
''' in the shape OF the head aud face and the C
'Se of the beard. The latter, however, bea
-. "a marks of age in his gray hair and Shiskei
'i- and were it not for the badness of the Jud
~ might readily pass for his father. Col. Cor
M hill is rotuud jolly-looking individual in t
LUG prime of life. Mr. Davidge is gray hare
Ai bulet-headed, smooth-faced parsonage, W
~" talks as though his mouth was full OF CO
n"' pudding, and conducts the cross-examinati
uP9 with free indulgence of sarcasm and kt
sur persistency and unfair inuendo, that often
US cures sympathy for the witness. He has
Lcn- good sense not to spoil telling point wi
arb !, -, a.. ,.;,,ass and often deoli
Ane to cross-examine. When he does see ut
4~' follow a witness up, he works for dram
I III effects with skill which shows him an ado
. 10 Judge Porter has yet spoken only once,
ione then in few words of protest against the
'eeH terruptions of the prisoner.
ninB The trial is undoubtedly an important
rom and attracts great interest; but the occa
n 10 of it is so thoroughly Insignificant as to
KING gest wonder at the vast issues that turn u
VI microscopic agencies.
his g. II MERRu.