Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1882-01-26

great nation. and led a poor insane man of
encompass what they would hail with satisfatc-
ton, as would probably hundreds of other pol
iticians if it could have occurred other than
through assassination removal of Garfield
who stood in the way OF their unrighteous and
disgraceful struggle for Office Why, the peo-
pie will say some one is at fault. They will
say we will fix the blame upon the heads of
dead president until it drove this poor insane
man-from the daily papers ''what Grant says"
s'what Conkling says and from constantly
thinking upon ito his insane act of killing
the president. And there are men in high
places, the really culpable ones, who will 60
names and the detestation of their countrymen
fastened upon their memories. Fiji. .
Scovile alluded to Guiteau's remark when
told by Gen. Reynolds that Arthur and Conk-
ling and other stalwarts abhored his crime, and
Guiteau interrupted, saying:
did not say any such thing when he spoke
of Oonkling on July 4. Those friends
are my friends to-day; and don't you forget it.
Scoville continued with his 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.
THURSDAY, JAN. 10.
Mr.. Scoville talked the whole of another day.
He appeared tn be ready to proceed when he
arose, Dut he waited a moment to enable Gui-
teau to read carefully prepared impromptu in
Of New York. that in cases similar to his the
jury must find the assassin sane beyond rea-
sonable doubt. He thanked the judges for
their decision in the name, as usual of Justice,
the American people and American
then subsidized. The whole drift
of Scovilles argument was to prove that
Guiteau, at the time Of the commission of the
act was calm and that throughout his life from
the tune ne was nineteen years old until to day
those persons who had no Oppol tunity If OBJ
serving him believed hi1n to be insane He
aimed to show that Guiteau acted in the mat
ter Of the shooting just as an insane man
would act and that the evidence of those per-
sons men and women who saw him during
that period OF his career which he
mad marked of from the rest as to
his oddities and eccentricities,
proved him to be insane His argument was
of that ingenious kind which is apt to leave at
least doubt in the mind Of the ordinary aud
1tor. he rehearaed the testimony bearing on
the appea rance OF the assassin lust after the
shooting, which he aimed to show was calm, the
natural appearance of a lunatjc under such cir
cumstances, and that going to show that through
life ne was regarded by people who mot him as
crazy. From these premises he deduced tho
conclusion that he was crazy. He Waxed elo-
quent only once:
81 am here" said he, in an eloquent strain,
'not So much to save this mans life, not SC
much 10 DO my duty to the wife of my bosom,
not 90 much TO Inaintain the honorad name of
the Guiteau family, III which there is not and
never has been criminal, not so much for
these purposes IS to prevent an injustice being
done here that will stain forever the name Of
America, lasting disgrace to our jurispru..
dence''
He appealed to the jury in impassioned tones
to stand as barrier between the mob spirit
which Dayidge has lauded 80 highly and the
poor being against whom it's vengeance was d.
rected
Tt is understood that the defense will, at the
conclusion of Scoville's speech, renew the mo-
ton to allow the prisoner to be heard The Of
feet of this, if permitted by court, will be to
consume another day. Allowing two days for
Judge Porter, and it is more than probable that
he will require three, the case will hardly get to
the jury before Wednesday next, tho 10Th.