The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-01-14
The Trial.

W ASSv1 S011s xOs0O kOul tII(
opening Of Court, Guiteau said: "In
justice to myself and Davidge. desire
to say that received letter Yesterday
severely denOuncing Davidge, and nv
relnarks against him were based upOn
that. l have found out, however. that
! was mistaken, and that Davi.lyt. is n
high toned Christian gentleman and q
sound lawyer. desire. therefore, to
withdraw anything said against him.
Sill! entertain the same opinion of
!CorkhlIl, however. am satisfied I
was wrong about Davidge, but right on
DAvldge resumed his argument and
reviewed the evidence. He showed by
the evidence Ut J. W. Guiteau and the
witnesses for the defense the f,llacy oi
ScOville,s theory that the prisoner was
insane. Soon after the opening Of court
Speaker Keifer and cx-Attorney Gener-
81 TAFT entered and took seats upOn the
floor. After his opening speech Guitcau
remained quiet listener for an hour.
Davidge having used some pretty strong
lang!lagc in allutling to Guiteau such ~
This unslHakable liar" the prisoner r.
torted, "Oh you are making all this fine
talk for money" Following up with frr-
quent comments THAT happens to be
false," that is not true" and similar
expressions. Davi.lge passed to the ex-
a'hinatian of the prisoner himself: his
appearance. on the stand; what he had
said and what capacity of intellect hr
had shown; proving he sail COZ elusive
~ that what had gone before had III;
been show an'l hollow fraud. Scovillc
had dilated upon morality and had :.>-
serted that the lack Of intellect was his
L.. L.,
upon the stand wOnucrful memory.
logic, reason and intellectua! aLiiity' F;
likewise as the defense had claimed for |
him virtue and morality. The prose-
cution had availetl themselves ot their
right 10 show the contrary and
what had been the result: H.
had been shown to ls such
= monster of corruption. dirt,
depravity AMI wicke.incss that the
country looked on with Il shl,dtirr.
"That might have been the ease" !
shouted Guitcau, "in July, but I ask |
the Court now, ii you could see some Of |
the letters ] have been receiving YOU
would see that great many people
think | am one of tn. best and greatest |
men that ever lived"
Davidgc continued, ki!lfillly and with |
effect. and reviewed that |
portion Of the testimony bearing u,wn
the prisoners mora! character a. evil
dencetl in his past lie. All this time,
ssist the cCunsal. no one accused him ",
insanity. In the estimation Of his
friends and family he was sane enough,
for all transactions Of life, Du: when hi-
hand is rcd with blood, and outraged
law claim. him az sacrifice
Dn the altar of justice We first hear of
insanity. (-Alluding to Guitcau'- course
in regard to the L"tt1-Occun>, IE,vidgc
said; We have t" deal here simply with
the plans Of AN nl'l:,t 'ious mind, but
here is nothing in s:lch u scheme to in
ticate insanity. 1t is u fact, l under
stand, that the stock Of that paper was
''ce worth $71j, ,MU. /, is now worth
'ne million, anI it was hy putting in
successful operation such plan. SIM
lar to ti"se suggested by the
prisoner, that it attained il, value.
summing up this incident Davi,igc
aid 1t was no indication ri insanity.
1t was simply in Keeping with Ills itic:.
hat one great moving brain ami one
xntr:i figure Of the day was that OF
'har!r, }. Euiteau. "'rilank YOU la
.ilgr," >,rcastic:siiy called out the pri-
oncr. PIN glad you are beginning to
hink 80. A great 'aany other people
hink IN the greatest l,l,n OF the day
'ut don't care Il snap what they Trims.
havn't g"t 4 lit Of egoti>E.'