The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-01-05
THE july HEARD FROM
GUITEAU MAKES HIS USUAL
MORNING SPEECH.
HE is STILL AFRAID OF THE
CRANKS.
AN NJ. ID. AGAIN SITS DOWN
ON HIM.
THE " HYPOTHETICAL CASE"
BUSINESS.
BOB INGERSOLLS HEAD EN-
HIBITED IN COURT.
THE PRISONER HAS THE LAST
THE HYPOTHETICAL CASE"
BUSINESS.
THE PRISONER HAS THE LAST
SAY.

WASHINGTON, December 20. -
News is current that the Guiteau
Jury, with one exception, are salts
Ted of the guilt and legal response
bility of the prisoner. The twelfth
juror, it is said, steadily maintains
that Guiteau is as crazy rs n March
hare.
When the court opened this
morning some delay i'll the proceed
ings ensued, and Guiteau made his
usual mornings speech. He COM
planned that the usual police guard
had been withdrawn from the
prison, and that there is more dan
ger of his being shot while riding
to and from the Jail than at any
other time. He requested the judge
10 order the usual guard of police
TO accompany him. 1t would only
take one crank now to shoot him
while in the van, and the only dan.
ger he expected now was from
cranks.
DIR. Collander was called.
Judge Cox said, as the statement
had been made yesterday, that the
court had surrounded the prisoner
with unusual guards aud protection,
he would state that the prisoner
was in custody of the marshal and
not the court, and what extra guard
had been furnished had been sup
piled by the marshal.
Guiteau -"Your honor, if the
marshal won't do his duty L appeal
TO the court. II tho marshal will not
furnish guards, kick him out, and
let's have new one"
Judge Cox-"I have no doubt he
Will do his duty in this connection"
Mr.. Scoville read to the witness a
letter written by Guiteau, about ten
days ago, to Secretary Don Came
ron, asking for five hundred dollars,
and asked for his opinion, whether
such letter, to man he did not
know, does not indicate insanity
of mind ?
Answer-T don't think it indi-
Gates unsoundness of the mind.
1t seems 10 mo consistent with the
character and habit throughout the
life of the prisoner to solicit from
sources. where he had not any reason
to expect it,"
Mr.. Scoville then read TO DIR. Col
lender the hypothetical case of the
defense, and the witness replied,
upon that hypothesis his insanity
is a self-evident proposition"
DR.. Walter Dempster, superin-
tendent of the Woonsocket state
hospital for the insane, had devoted
his attention to the study of insanity
for the past fifteen years. The wit
ness was familiar with the process
of taking the conformity of the
head, and did not believe that, as
rule, much importance could be at
tached to the shape of the head in
determining sanity or insanity. The
witness exhibited a number of slips,
showing the shapes, as taken by con-
formity, of the heads Of number
of prominent men, including Treas
urer Gilfillan, Colonel Ingersoll,
Judge Golfer and Colonel Corkhill.
! Considerable amusement was Gre
ated by the illustrations of the wit
ness and the running comments of
Guiteau. Not single diagram dis
closed a symmetrical head. The
witness remarked that, possibly,
not single perfectly sym
metrical head might be found in
the court room. "In the case of ln-.
gersoll," the witness remarked,
pointing with his finger, "this side
appears fat as compared with the
other"
Mr.. Davidge-"It bulges on the
wrong side"
Witness-"Yes; some would say
so."
Guiteau-"That shows that Bob
and are both cracked in the same
direction"
"Colonel Corkhill," said the wit
ness, chad depression on one side"
Guiteau Qnterrupting)-"I'll bet
you, you could put your loot in the
depression in his head"
Witness (cOntinuing)-"The de.
preston is very similar to that no
ticed in the prisoners head"
I(Laughter.) |
Guiteau sob! he's cracked q
great deal worse than am"
Witness was then asked if he had
ever seen case where person COM
mitted crime and claimed divine in
spiration, and If so, how such per-
sons deported themselves before and
after the act? He replied, that in
such cases delusion or inspiration,
as they claim it to be, came sud-
denly and with intense pressure, and
such persons act quickly and upon
sudden impulse, delaying neither to
consider opportunity nor weapons
that it wonld be impossible to con-
ceive, without actually witnessing
its impetuosity and determination
with which persons act under an in
sane delusion carry out their pro-
posals. Witness did not believe in
the distinct type of insanity which
could be called moral insanity, il
was simply a convenient term which
had been invented to excuse the com.
mission of henious crimes. Witness
had never seen a case where an in.
sane man, after committing crime
l boosted his insanity and urged il az
an excuse for the crime. Insane mur.
derers do not parade their acts, but
on the contrary, rarely will allude
to them unless great ingenuity il
used to draw them out. The wit
ness, until be entered this court
room, had never heard of case ol
inspiration that form within, always
such persons claim to have heard the
will of God or seen His image, OF
something of the sort. Such in
spiration is nearer conviction arriv.
ed at after mature reflection on the
part of the person who is affected
The witness was asked if he believed
, with the prisoners father
l.. w. Guiteau, that the dis
ease could be cured by
prayer should be taken as any evil
dence of insanity, and replied
"By no means. We all know that
thousands and thousands of sane
people prayed daily for the saliva
ton of President Garfield's life this
summer. They would hardly have
done SO if they had not tolerated
some belief in the efficacy of prayer
Guiteau-aIt shows that the lord
J and some people don't agree on thii
!: business. People are beginning 10
/. come over to my side and the Lords
) too"
Mr.. Corkhill then read the hypo
thetical questions of the prosecution
ard the witness replied to each