The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-01-19
Scoville Expects to Close His Ar
gument To-Day.
HE ATTACKS PRESIDENT ARTHUR,
GRANT AND CoNKLING.
And Holds Them Responsible for the
Murder Of the President.

| fident step, saluted his friends in passing and
| as soon as he had taken his seat turned to
Judge Cox and said, II presume your honor
will allow ne to address the jury when Scovile
| gets through?'
Judge Cox-we will consider that when
Scoville gets through.
Scoville in reply to an inquiry this morning
stated that he hardly expected to conclude his
! speech to-day.
| At ten minutes past ten Scoville resumed,
| taking up and discussing statistics of insane
| criminals which had been introduced in evil
| dence by the prosecution This evidence
| Scoville said, was of the greatest benefit to the
| defence and afforded instances of delusion and
| chronic mania precisely such as he claimed had
affected the prisoner. An exactly similar case
| in all its phases he thought had never existed
| He did not think the world had ever seen or
/ ever would see a second Guiteau. Insane peo
\ pie were peculiar and as erratic as meteors,
| each having an orbit peculiar to itself He
| had noticed that the tables produced here by
DR.. Gray omitted some essential features OF
| his reports.
| Col. Corkhill-Dr. Gray didn't prep
! tables especially for this trial
Scoville-Dr. Gray was hired to co
to help hang this man. He was one of the CO.
| conspirators in a conspiracy of which the dis
! trict attorney Yves chief, but fortunately he
| has left his foot prints here and before 1 get
| through L can contradict him out of his own
| mouth.
Mr. Scoville reviewed and analysed the de-
y
| delusions and mania. and endeavored to make
| an application to the case of the prisoner and
to point out in the condnct of Guiteau parallels
to the illustrations given by DR.. Gray. Against
| the assertion of some of the experts that Goi-
teau had been playing apart or feigning in
sanity, Scoville held that the prisoner had pur-
sued the very opposite course. He had said
| and done much to prejudice the theory of in
sanity. III he had been sane and playing in
sanity he would not have done it. "Whan
anything strikes him as wrong" said Scoville,
she says so at once, and here is the secret of
his just Recommendations of the district attorney,
the man who introduced spies into his cell to
obtain his secrets and II possible to convict
him. But thank God, they never obtained
one item of evidence which would operate
against him. You yourselves, gentlemen of
the jury, have seen how this honorable dis
trict attorney has wickedly suppressed and
destroyed evidence that would have aided the
prisoner"
Guiteau-That last is meant for sarcasm.
Scoville then adyerted to the cross-examin-
alton of the prisoner by Porter and his Won
derful quickness in reply His memory and
his intellectual acumen was remarked by
every one at the time. All this smartness of
the prisoner was due to his quick perceptions.
sit stops right there" said Scoville, HE can
| not take two consecutive steps in reasoning.
That is the inability that has prevented him
from doing anything in life successfully
Discussing the horrors of crime often
shown in the acts of insane criminals, Scoville
said
There is nothing in this act to compare with
some of these insane acts of insane criminals,
and, gentlemen of the jury, in my opinion if
there were not reasons and powerful ones back
of this prosecution this prisoner never would
| have been brought to trial. But I tell you,
gentlemen of the jury, back of this prosecu-
ton is an influence which / have felt, and
| which you may feel gentlemen, before this
trial is concluded. There are politicians who
seek to hide their own shame behind the dis
|
Scapegoat for their crime. did not intend,
| gentlemen of the jury, to take up this feature
OF the case, but when find the power and in
huence of this Government used against me in
| denying the small pittance that have asked
for a fair and impartial trial and the small ia
cilities needed for proper defence, do not
propose to keep quiet. l say that such men as
| Grant and Conklng and Arthur are morally
and intellectually responsible for this crime
Conkling shall not escape, shall not shirk the
responsibility OF the state OF things that led to
this act, and he shall not escape the condemna-
ton of the American people, if can help it,
for his share in this disgraceful scramble for
Office that led to the conflict with the chosen
ruler of this great nation and led this poor in
sane man to pass what they would have hail
ed with satisfaction, as wouldprobaby hundreds
of other politicians if otherwise than through
assassination, the removal of Garfield, who
stood in the way of their unrighteous and dis
graceful struggle for offices, could have oc-
CURED. Neither shall Grant escape that con-
demnaIion to which he is SO justly subjected,
when coming from Mexico with undue haste
to throw his name into this petty quarrel about
| small office in the Republican party he
sought to ferment the differences that had
| sprung up.
am not going to see the misdeeds of these
men high in power visited upon this poor in
| sane man if can help it. This clamor for
his blood is not for the purpose of avenging
| Garfield or satisfying justice. If it can be
shown that this was the act of sane man,
then these politicians in high places will say,
| "Of course we are not responsible for the act of
a sane man. To be sure, we had some differ
ences but then it never could have led a sane
| man to such an act"
But on the contrary, gentlemen of the jury,
what is the effect of your verdict if you acquit
| say tn some one is at fault. They will say,
"We will fix the blame upon the heads and
| the hearts OF these men who waged war upon
our poor dead President until it drove this
poor insane man from reading daily in the
papers what Grant says, what ConkliDg says,
and from constantly thinking upon it to his
insane act of killing the President" And
there are men in high places, the really culpa-
a stigma upon their names and the destation
of their countrymen fastened upon their mem
| cries.
| Recess.
Just as Scoville was about to resume his ar
gumont Guiteau broke out with considerable
| vehemence and shouted, 'Something has been
| said about polit cs and want to talk little
about politics too. There are two three
crank newspapers in the country to witt Red's
New York Tribune; to wit, Medill's Chicago
| Tribune; to w.t. Halsted's Cincinnati Com
mercial; to wit, Geo. William Curtis (the man
milliner of New York; Harper's Weekly. The
weather has been getting cool lately and those
fellows had better lie off under the trees and
cool off little The only cranks in the coun-
try are those fellows. They had better join
the Grant Guiteau-Ar thur combination and
get into good company and become good Re-
| publicans."
| been looking over the New York papers, called
out, 81 see the New York Court of Appeals has
just decided in favor OF our theory on the in
| sanity question; thank you Messrs judges.
Scoville discussed the conduct and action of
Guiteau at the time and Immediately after the
| shooting and contended they were entirely in
| keeping with their theory of insanity; that his
| GOODNESS and his quietly going to bed and
peacefully sleeping the night after the murder
| were characteristic incidents of a crime such
| as would be expected from an insane man and
| only an insane man.
| Guiteau called OUT 81 have never had any
| conception of his removal as a murder. My
| mind is perfect blank ON that question"
| Scoville read from the evidence of Gen. Rey-
| nolds what Guiteau had said to him Grey
| nolds) in Jail, 'That when his reasons were
| known to the people they would acquit him
| without trial and that he should then go
| to Europe for year or two"
Guiteau-All have got to say about that is
| / never said it.
Scovile continuing, said "This is not evil
dence manufactured by the defence. This evil
dence was offered by the prosecution. What
the prisoner said to Reynolds was said Hhder a
belief he was talking to a friend. He had no
reason to manufacture evidence them
Guiteau-"It was not manufactured. 1t was
| never said"
Scoyile continued, "And this, gentlemen, is
| evidence offered you by the prosecution.
| want you to take into consideration the mon
strous absurdity of such proposition coming
from sane man, as they would give you to be-
ieve he is, that he could kill the President of
the United States and then by simply giving
his reasons could go free without trial" SEQ
| Vile alluded to Guiteau's remark when told
by Gen. Reynolds that President Arthur and
| Mr.. ConkliDg and other stalwarts detested him
| and abhorred his crime
Guiteau interrupted saying, 81 did not say
any such thing when he spoke of Conkling and
| Arthur on the 4th of July. These men are my
friends today and don't you forget it,"
Scovie continued with review of the evil
dence and called attention to various incidents
in Guiteau's life, arguing his insanity as evil
| denced By an undoubted lack of something in
| his mental composition possessed by other men.