St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-01-21

they may acquit." Mr.. Davidge addressed
the jury on the 18th. At the close OF his re-
marks highly sensational scene was en-
acted. The District-AttorneJ made most
violent speech against the assassin being al
lowed to again address the court from the
counsel table, as is proposed in his closing
argument, in his own defense. This set the
prisoner off in clamor, Mrs! scoville into
tears and loud sobs, and the audience into
applause. Guteau was finally heard shout'
sng through the DIM
"The American people will read my speech,
and they are greater than this Court. The
American people are trying this case. II you
undertake to put ON gag.law. the cours IN
e eis columns and it reads ike an Grafton of
Cicero. 1t will go laundering down the ages,
and don't you forget it; and rs for you, Cork.
hill, President Arthur VIII soon dispose OF
you"
JOHN MULLINS, witness in a muir
der trial at Mount Vernon, KY, was fined
for contempt of Court, but ran out, followed
bv two Deputy Sheriffs, upon whom he fired
without effect. After short chase he
was captured and brought to the court
room. He was accompanied by his father,
| Champ Mullins, who was also intoxicated.
John was ordered to Jail by Judge Brady.
When the jailer and the posse started with
| Iohn to the jiil the prisoner and his father
resisted, and scene ensued which =? beggars
description. The large crowd in the court
room broke into the widest disorder; men
were knocked down, pistols drawn, guards
rushed in with shot-guns, and the rush for
the doors and windows was tremendous.
The Mullinses and officers fought their way
out of the courtroom and down stairs into
the street. Judge Brady left the bench
and shouted: II call ON every man in this
house to help arrest thesa men, and will
assist myself" the men we're overpowered,
and lodged in Jail, the jwymen were dis
charged, and the case continued till next
term.
THE Springer bill defining the law of
insanity in criminal cases provides that no
person indicted in United States Courts
shall be acquitted on the ground of insanity,
idiocy, lunacy, or other unsoundneSs OF
mind, except upon prod that a. the time
of committing the offeme he was laboring
under such defect of reason as either not to
know the nature and qualify of the acthe was
doing or not to know thatit was unlawful or
wrong. A morbid propensity to commit
prohibited acts existing in the mind of a
person who is not shown to have been in
capable of knowing thu unlawfulness or
wrongfuness of such acts shall form no de-
Tense to prosecution Therefor.
SOME seventy opentors have been
thrown out of work by the burning of a
wool mill at Charlottesville, Va. The Adj
rondack Springs House, Whitehall, N. Y.
q burned. W. FL. Collin, a fireman, was
killed.
CHARLES REvELL was found dead in
hut near Des Moines, Dwa, where he had
lived in hermit secusior many years, very
poor. Entries in Bibleshow that he was
born in the Isle of jersey October 81, 1917;
raised near Gainesborovgh, Lincolnshire,
and left England in 1851
4 A LARGE portionof he.Maltby mines,
near Wyoming, Pa, hasbeen flooded. The
water gained such headway that it will
take several weeks to repair damages.