Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-04-10
Gufteau's Exceptions--The Points SEQ
willie has to Argue.

GufteaU'S EXcept1OnS--The Points Sc0s
willie has to Argue.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-The bill of excep-
tions taken in the case of Charles T. Guiteau
and signed by Judge Cox, of the criminal
court, have been printed, and make pam
phlet of thirty nine pages. There are thirty
two exceptions as to matters occurring up to
the time when the case was given to the
jury, and exceptions also to the rulings of
the court denying a new trial and overruling
the motion in arrest of judgment. They
may be summarized as follows:
/. On the ruling of the court in allowing
the government to put in testimony as to the
plea of insanity in rebuttal.
2. On the admission of R. S. Macarthur
testimony that the prisoner had obtained
$500 from him on note which he had not
been paid.
g. On the admission of the testimony of
| Charles Wehle that the prisoner in 1872 col
| lected over $500 for Emil Haas, client.
which he failed to pay over.
4. On the overruling of the defendant
objection to the testimony of Wehle as to
conversations he had had with the prisoner
after he had failed to pay over to Haas the
moneys collected for him.
5. On the overriding of defendants objec-
ton to the testimony of D. Mclean Shaw
detailing conversation he had with the prisoner
in 1872 or 1878, in which he (the prisoner
spoke of ''sticking' some one with brass
watch
6. On the admission of the testimony of
Shaw as to the prisoner speaking of borrow
ing money from DR. Macarthur.
7. In the admission of the following ques-
ton and answer in the examination of DIR.
Fordyce Baker, els the habit of Boosting
of intimacy with people holding high po-
sition and possessing influence and power,
when the fact is otherwise, any evidence, IN
your Judgment as a scientist of an insane
delusion?' A. 'It is not an evidence of a
delusion of an insane person, because it is
not the result of disease and insanity is di-
sease 1t Is result of vanity and self-con-
ceit and love of notoriety. These are vices
and not diseases"
S. In the admission of the testimony of
Henry NJ. Collyer that the prisoner in 1873
collected, as attorney for Ross Brothers &
Co., $175, which he refused to pay over.
8. In allowing j. M. Justice, witness, to
be asked his opinion of the prisoners power
to distinguish right from wrong, an exception
being taken also to the answer that he be-
lieved the prisoner to be able to distinguish
right from wrong.
10. In the admission of theletter addressed
to Colonel Corkhill, submitted December Is,
to which the defense objected, on the ground
| that it was incomplete, piece having been
cut out.
IL. To the admission of the testimony of
Annie Dunmire, formerly the wife of the
prisoner, that when she lived with him from
1869 to 1874 she never saw any hing that
would indicate that he was man of unsound
mind.
| u. To the admission of answer of DR.. A.
| Mel. Hamilton as to the prisoners sanity ::
| 81 believe the man to be sane, although &C.
centric, and to be able to distinguish the diff
L.
| know the consequences of any act he may be
| DOING
Is. To admission of answer of DIR. Hamil-
| ton that there are great many medically in
| sane people who do know the difference be-
tween right and wrong.
The 18th, 18th, 10th, 18th, 18th, 10th,
| oath, 25th, Goth, 9th, 2Sth and 29th excep-
tions relate to the admission of the hypo-
/ thetical questions of the government and the
| replies thereto of various experts.
| 20. To the admission in the testimony of
DIR. Stearns, who saw the prisoner on several
occasions in Jail and conversed with him, of
| the question if there was anything in the
| statements of the prisoner to indicate that he
| was under an insane delusion when he MUIR
| dered the President, and his answer thereto
| that he could not take his statement ''in it.
self and by itself as an evidence of insanity
| 81. 70 certain questions asked DIR. o.
| Everts, who, with other medical experts ex-
amined the prisoner, as to his opinion from
| that examination and his answers that he
| had an opinion, and it was that he was sane.
%. To allow DR.. A. E. Mcdonald to be
| asked, SIS an impulse successfully resisted
| for two or three weeks irresistible ?" And
| allowing the answer to be given, 81 should
not consider it 500
20. To allowing the statement of DR.. Nc
Donald to go to the jury, ''That the newspa-
| pers commenced to notice the fact that the
Interruptions are only given when the evil
dence was against him"
| 80. To the refusal of the court to strike
| out from the testimony of DR.. Kempster, 81
asked him whether he considered the Apos-
| ties insane. He evidently discovered the d.
| lemma he was in"
| 81. To the refusal of the court, while evil
dence in sur-rebuttal was being offered by
| defendant, to examine but one witness DANES
| Brooks) named in the affidavit of Mr.. Sco-
vile.
80. On the refusal of the court to allow
| DR.. George M. Beard, medical expert called
! by defendant in -rebuttal, to answer the
hypothetical questions. To the charge of
| Judge Cox no less than thirty-six clauses are
made the subjects of exception.
Mr.. Reed will argue the Guiteau bill of ex-
| captions alone. Mr.. scoville is unable to
get decent treatment from the prisoner, and
| being broken down in health declines to in
terest himsz If further The argument will
probably come off the first week in May.