Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-12-07
GENERAL NEWS.
Congressional Doings Of To-
Day.
Frelinshuysen's Name to be Sent in
Next Monday.
The Cult eau Trial Commands a
Portion Of the Attention
of the Public.
Tho Trial OF Guiteau.
MONDAYS TEsTIMONy.

managing editor of the Chicago Medical
Review, testified. He believed the pris.
oner insane.
at length.
Davidge having stated that John w.
Guiteau had sworn positively that the
prisoners father was sane, Guiteau said:
1--WE will show by all reports that he was
insane. Everybody knows he was badly |
cranked on religion"
Davidge continued-Though good |
many witnesses believed in moral insan-
ity in certain rare cases rendering man
irresponsible, he based Guiteau's lnsani.
ty on the hereditary faint, impairment
OF Judgment or inspiration, which also |
included motive. OF course when man
committed crime under delusion, and |
then acted precisely as criminal would |
do it woald be presumptive evidence
against insanity.
Guiteau (excitedly)-Nothing of that
kind in this case. (Angrily to Davidge):
You are going too fast in this matter.
We want facts not your judgment. The
witness had stated one thing right. The
Lord injects inspiration and then lets
out. That's the way get my inspira-
ton.
Davidge then put hypothetical case,
using term like a common vulgar
criminal,
Guiteau turned to Davidge, and with
an air of immense superiority, said:
"There is nothing vulgar about this case.
1t ,s all high-toned." Laughter, quick
ly suppressed by the court.
Guiteau suddenly interrupted the
examination, and despite Scoville's ef-
forts to restrain him, broke out IN severe
denunciation of his late wife, saying he
had Just noticed discourse from her
which was full of misstatements, and that
if she came into court to testify against
him, he would show her up. He ratified
on for some minutes, but finally quieted
down.
The witness was about to be dismissed,
when Guiteau detained him and said,
with an air Of great seriousness: doctor.
want to ask you where the hereditary
nilnbus of the brain exists. Won't
man show it whenever there is cause 2"
The witness responded in the affir-
NATIVE.
"rhat will do" said Guiteau, with the
air of lawyer who had made a decided
point.
| Recess.
Prof. J. W. splerely, the true Messiah.
arrived here Thursday and Immediately
in the Guiteau trial that Guteau's al
demanded to be put on the stand to con.
front Guiteau and tell the court where
and how to find this awful Deity of the
republican party. He was sent to the
insane asylum to-day.
il Richard Hinton a1ifor of tha Wash
ington Gazette, had seen the prisoner al
the republican headquarters in New
York and formed the opinion that he
was exceedingly lily balanced and ego
tivtical.
Witness was asked what he thought o
the spe ech Garfield We. Hancock and re
piled that he thought it ridiculous
disjointed affair.
Guiteau, much incensed, shonted
swell it wasn't anything of the kind
You don't know what you are talking
about. NV speech received the endorse
ment of the best men of the country"
Witness said the prisoner seemed tt
be perfect nuisance sbout the room.
1 Guiteau retorted: "You were nui
sance yourself. I'd rather be hung as
man than acquitted as fool, and
won't have any more of this kind of evi
dence."
Witness added that he was Laughing
stock rs far as he could see.
Guiteau, greatly enraged, turned t,
: Scoville and said: IF you put an,
9 more OF such cranky fellows on the stan'
{ l will square you again; it was grea
piece Of impertinance Oh your part t
put Judge Davis on the sta.d without
consulting me. I'm no fool and won
allow you to make me out one"
DIR. Chas. II. Nicholas of the Bloom
ington asylum replied to hypothetict
question propounded by Scoville:.
the evidence to which have listened
correct, should say the prisoner is il
sane. Some discussion arose in relatio
to the form of the questions propose
. touching the responsibility of the pri
oner, and witness was allowed to retil
for the present.
al DR.. Folsom Of Boston thought that
= the hypothetical proposition put b
Scoville was correct in all particular
the prisoner was insane when he sh
the president.
Mr. Samuel Worcester of Salem d
. clined to express an opinion until II
4 counsel explained more definitely Il
term inspirational.
fulteuu (lIupbtlcuC1yJ-V Vuys Suc
( terpretation by the Deity into my mil
y of a thought or power foreign to my oy
will and mind; that's what's meant. l.
told dozen times.
DR.. VIM. w. Giddings of the COVER
4 ment asylum for the insane Mt Washin
ton thought that if the theory put for
in the hypothetical question true t
prisoner was undoubtedly insane.
DIR. J. Mcbride of Milwaukee and ]
Charming of Brooklyn, Mass, had t
same opinion.
n's Dr..Iheodore Fisher, of Boston, wou
ira dislike to be confined to statement
lice facts contained in the hypothetical qu
ton, but if compelled to answer wor
. say he should judge that the prisoner
, insane.
The witness was informed by the pr
ecutlon that they would want him as
witness.
Scoyille announced that he Ind
more witnesses present and would int
duce but two or three more before cl
ing the case.
as- Guiteau. intcrrupting. demanded a
pnnas for Gen. Grant, Senator Consh
Jewett and others.
The prisoner not being suppress
then delivered an incoherent harrauug
while his counsel smiled approvingly
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