The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-04
GUITEAU SITUATION.
Fact. and Fare,es In tn. Cas-

Jacksonville, ILL.,, 2.-Dr. Andrew Nc
Fsrland, prominent exprrt in in ane
matter, has been subposnsed to testify in
the Guitrau cnse, End started epst this
morning
Wa hinKton The snt,-Ioom at the
jail was file, 10 d'y with pc pie patient
" waiting to be conducted to Guiiesu' IS
cell. In accordance with his own re-
quest only thore whom the jail officers
knew were taken to The cell. He gave
his autograph TO almost every visitor.
In reference to recent publications con-
corning the question Of Jurisdiction, the
prisoner remarked, 1.-The Lord had a
special object in lifting the president
down so easy from Long Branch instead
Of Washington" Come visitor remark
ing that the court might move the dock
to the basement he said. +" / don't care
where they put me, have q good voice"
a new arrangement has been made by
which Gulteau has TO subsist on ordinary
fare. Heretofore when meat has been
sent to the prison from the outside il was
the ttrlct rue of the jail officers not to
touch them in any way. Had anything
happened to the prisoner the jail officials
could not have been held accountable.
Scoville has now thrown the RESPONSE
bility of the food aud of visitors upon
the warden of the jail. He no longer
issues pas es or requests to OH ters TO ad
NIT parties to the Jail. Guitesu is not TO
receive his letters any more aud is not 10
be supplied with newspapers. o
Guiteau's gNnity and love of notority
have been we'll fed the last few days.
He has had great number of callers at
the Jail, the minority of whom are gig
Cling women, VINO seem to have silly ad-
mirntion for this strocious wretch, who
apparently. has not the slightest rcaliza-
ton of the situation he is in, al d the fact
that be hiss bat short time to live
Mr.. Scoyille knows the situation, and his
refusal, yesterday, to send any more let
ters shows that ne does not mean to be
responsible for the fellow any further.
John Guitesu, in an interview to-day.
said the prisoner received about
800 letters day. They are no longer
sent 10 him. We have not time to read
them. There are many other important
things to do. II would not be proper, of
course, to send them to him. Allowing
him to hold levees, read papers, see let
tiers, send out letters, and things OF that
sort, is not right in principle. A prisoner
SO situated might get up conspiracy
Of ceurse, there is nothing Of that kind
to be feared in this case. lH1
What is your opinion as to the result
of the trial?
1 believe the jury will convict him.
sane or insane. l have always told our
people So The tendency of this expert
testimony has been very strong against
him. These gentlemen have the theory
that there cannot be insanity without dis
ease. All knew SIS soon as they came
here and began to ask whether he had
been sick or not, what their testimony
would be. These gentlemen sre honest
in their theory, but their theory is wrong.
They are partisan defenders of new
idea. When sharp lawyers began to
gain acquittals on the ground of emo
tional insanity and monomp mia, experts
get together and decided that the brain
must be found 10 be diseased in order to
establish insanity. 1t is theory.
Washington, st is understood that
the defense in the Guiteau case will
shortly introduce the new feature Of go
called ''cranks," numbering between
forty and fifty. arrested here since Quit
eau shot the President. Most of them
were sent to St. Elizabeth Insane Asy-
lum on physicians certificates. The
physicians in each case will, it is said, be
subj enaed for the purpose of comparing
those cases with Guitean. with tie view
of demonstrating that if the commit
ments referred to were justly made,
Guiteau must be likewise insane.