The Portland daily press., 1882-01-14
Reed to Open for the Defence To- Day.

Fiuee Smlled, causing the inference that sucl
| would be the case.
Upon the opening of the court Guiteau said
In Justice to myself and Davidge, desire {,
| say that received letter Yesterday several,
denouncing Davidge and my remarks agains
him were based upon that. have found out
however, mat was mistaken and that Da
| yidge is high-toned Christian gentleman anf
sound lawyer. 1 desire therefore to with
draw anything | said against him still en-
terrain the same opinion of Corkhill however
I'm satisfied that was wrong about Davidge
but right about Corkhilni.' - ----s-s.~-----S
&ar. Daviuge resumed his argument and re-
| view OF the evidence. He showed by j. W
| GuIteaa and other witnesses for the defence
| the absurdity of ScovileS pet theory that the
| prisoner was an imbecile.
Soon after the opening of the court Sneaker
heifer and Assistant Attorney General Taft
entered and took seats upon the bench.
After his openine speech Guiteau remained
anls st,,r. sss Tsay feE On hqaf III audins
| to Guiteau, such as 'sThis unspeakable liar, y
| the prisoner retorted, 'Oh you are making all
| that fine talk for money" and followed it up
/ with frequent comments, "That happens to be
| FALSE THAT isn't true" and similar expires
| sions.
! Davidge passed to an examination of the
| prisoner himself, his appearance upon the
stand, what capacity of intellect he had shown
| proving conclusively that what had gone be-
| fore had all been a sham and hollow fraud
| Scoville had dilated upon his morality and had
| asserted that lack of intellect was his failing
| On the contrary he had shown upon the stand
| wonderful memory, logic, reason and intellec
/ tual ability. Likewise as the defence ha6
| claimed for him virtue and morality, the
| prosecution had awaited themselves of theil
| right to show the contrary, and what had beer
/ the result? He had bean shown to be such 8
| monster of corruption, deceit, depravity anG
| wickedness that the country looked on with 6
| shudder.
.sThat might have been the case,'' shouted
Guiteau, ''in July, but it isn't the case now
receiving, you would see that good many
| people think [ am one of the best and creates
men in the country"
Continuing, Davidge skilfully and with won
derful effect reviewed that portion of the testi
mony bearing upon the prisoners moral char
acter as evinced in his past life. Cali thi
time" said he, "no one accused him of insan.
| ity. In the estimation of his friends and fami
/ ly he was sane enough for all transactions o.
life. But when his hand is red with blood ant
| the outraged law claims him as . sacrifice or
the altar of JUSTICE we first hear of insanity
Abiding to Guiteau's schemes in relation t.
the Inter-Ocean, Davidge said, 1--WE have tt
| deal here simply with the plans of an auda
cious mind, but there is nothing in such {
| scheme to indicate insanity. 1t is fact,
understand that the stock of that paper oncs
| worth $75, 900 is now worth million dollars
| and it was by putting int successful operation
the plans first suggested by the prisoner"
eyes, shouted Guiteau, "the paper neve
| was anything until put some brains into it
and they have been running ever since on m,
| brains"
Summing up this incident Davidge said, 81
was no indication OF insanity; 1t was simply il
keeping with his idea that the great moving
brain and the one central figure of the da.
was that of Charles J. Guiteau."
THANK you, Davidge," called the prisoner
nm Io Won arr haOinnino fo think
great many other people think am the great
| est man of the day. But / don't care a snal
what they think. haven't got bit of ego
tism."
Mr.. Davidge alluded briefly to the testimon.
| of Mrs. Dunmire, the divorced wife of tn
| prisoner The prosecution were debarr ed from
| entering upon those condolences which exis
| between husband and wife. The defenc
could have done 80 but they did not. "Mrs
Dunmire did not HESITATE" said Davidge, st
testify emphatically that he was sane man
'She don't know anything about me" calle
out Guiteau. 81 haven't seen her for eigh
years.
Mrs. Scoville, who had been busily writing
ali the morning, shook her head angrily ant
calculated, "She's liar any way"
Her brother whispered warning, but sh
repeated the comment still more emphatically
| Commenting upon the testimony OF DIR
Spitzka, Mr.. Davidge said Notwithstand
| ing some of his remarkable statements Spitzk'
| D6foI u6ul6u tu6 priSuucT leSdl responsibility
| Accepting all his evidence even Spitzk'
brought the prisoner within the reach of thu
| law and punishment"
Referring to DR.. Spitzka's testimony as t,
the prisoner having lop-sided smile. Mr.
| Davidge said:-"The massachusetts in TIL
| prisoners SOUL the asymmetry is IN his sou
| and heart and moral nature-in fact the Devl
| has taken possession of his SOUL"
The prisoner-"If you had as good a on
| you would be all right"
In abiding to DIR. Spitzka's statement tina
| the prisoners tongue devated to one side, Mr.
| Davidge related the fact that the medical ex
perts, at meeting at Wizards Hotel, exam
| ined each others tongues, and it was fonnt
that of half dozen present only two coult
put their tongues out straight.
The prsoner-Thev were all rather tonguey
Davidge (continuing)- we may say tina
those experts were sane men.
| Hardly" was the prisoners comment.
"What monstrous, miserable testimony,
continued Mr.. Davidge, twas necessary t,
bolster up this rotten, rotten, wretchedly rot
ten case"
The prisoner. The rotten business is a goot
comment on your side of it.
The court then, at IL o'clock, took a recess
for an hour.
After the recess Mr.. Davidge resumed will
review and discussion of the expert testi
mony. Never before had SO many men of EN-
inence appeared upon trial of this character
The treasury had been opened to secure the at
tendance of witnesses. More than tW enty ex
perts had been summoned for the defence
many of these men whose names were know
in every household. They came here, the,
watched the prisoner, they listened to his evi
dence, and what was the result? With tw'
exceptions they vanished from before the ligh
of the evidence like cloud before the wine
ard not one of them could come upon tn,
stand and swear that this man was legally in
sane. They met and compared notes and thel
could not testify then to his sanity with thu
exception OF the two "moral insanity" men
end, regret TO say it, neither OF them woult
or could admit that they believed in God
They vanished from before you and were per
mitted by the defence to withdraw withou
their testimony. Now what has been the re
salt of this evidence? This alleged fool ha
grown before yon to man OF more than ordi
nary intellect. We leave uncovered his mora
nature. We have shown him to be in religion
hypocrite, at law pettifogger, in all thing
| a svinder, denlzen of iails and a depravet
| and wicked wretch.
| In answer to the prisoners claim of divin,
inspiration, Mr.. Davidge read with impressive
| effect from the first chapter of the Epistle O
| James, 18th to 10Th verses inclusive.
The air of the room was very oppressive at
| ter recess and quite a ripple of excitement wa
| caused by sudden stir among the audience IL
l the rear of the room, and Judge Davidge sus
pended his remarks until the confusion ha(
| subsidized.
| LII q lew uluuLbo lHtOAAupbCus onOOA
ingly, you're putting it all wrong, Davidge
| you are talking for money now"
Without noticing the interruption Mr.. Dav
| idge adverted to the period of two weeks wher
| as he said the prisoner was making up his mint
| to commit the act.
II was praying to ind out the Lords Will,
| broke in the prisoner.
Davidge-(partially turning ito the Judge
| "Let him go on; will hang him on his ow 1
| evidence prediction, however, which APP
peared to have no terrors for Guiteau, for hii
| interruptions became more and more freqeunt
Allusion being made to his not paying bis
debts, he shouted, 81 am better man than
| Corkhil in that particular. ] always pay my
| debts when have money. He can't pay his
| when he has money in his pocket"
Reading from the evidence, Mr.. Davidge
quoted from Guiteau's own evidence, this
| sentence, II can't tell my business to every
body; keep my mouth shut"
Guiteau retorted, That's true, except here;
| 1 have to open it pretty often here" and in a
| few minutes he shouted in loud tones, CONFER
not with flesh and blood; that was Paul's
| idea and that's mine. get my advice from
the Deity not from flesh and blood, That's
L. In, and hot