The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-01-18

| box, without regard to. race, color,
lsex or previous condition OF servi-
tude. A Jam was mild name for
lit. Making big long stretch ofmy
neck and crawling up OF some
good natured fellows back to attract
attention, / caught the eagle eye Of
one of the city detectives who found
q way for me to get inside the bar
| through rear entrance. l was
passed off as an expert, the "mem-
/ Der Of the barr business having
played itself out the first week Of
the trial. By little inspiration"
of the aforesaid detective | brought
sufficient pressure" to bear on the
bailiff who had custody Of Gui-
teau TO let me squeeze in beside
him near the dock. 1T was one Of
| the experts duties to watch the an
/ tics Of the assassin and then give an
opinion, sane or insane, what say
YOU 1 viii tell you, my dear
readers, in . very brief manner,
what [ think Of him, and it did not
take long to make up mind about
it either. Guiteau Is o regular old
! Washington crank" seifconceited,
and Just the kind Of & looking man
you don't want to meet on q lonely
street on Q dark night I firmly be-
lieYe, and / am not the only Peron
who went to see The villain. who
hes since changed his mind in re-
gard to the mans rgsponsi biiity
/ that he is crazy. If he is playing
| off, rs some Of tAe exr arts testified
( to, he certainly misse. lis calling.
He should nave been actor. not
q lawyer. Ills apP5as .ee IS bad,
forehead low, and head crooked,
, and his hair stauds straig out
like a porcupine's. Iii yes i:s.enI
like FIRE whea he gets g. I his
/ temper equals that OF iG- SIC
Ginnis Of Sand Patch. His tongue
ratles ike threshing machine and
his fist comes down on the table oc-
easionally, when excited. with such
bang that the officers Of the court
wake UP and cry out 'order," and
then subside until he raises a
racket again. Poor Scoville; he has
had hard time with the defendant,
and Col. Corkhill, the District Al
/ torney, lost his temper on several
occasions when the prisoner put in
his lip where he had no business to.
Judge Cox has been tried very hard
in this case. and only resisted from
gagging Guiteau, on the personal
application Of the Government coun
sci, who desired the medical ex-
perts to have every opportunity and
chance To watch the prisoner, and
study his actions, so that they could
give an opinion as to his mental
condition, when upon the stand to
testify for the Government. Catch
ing a good opportunity, I attracted |
the prisoners attention by pulling
my note book out of my pocket, |
and the fool, thinking I wanted his
autompI, yelled out, loud enough |
to be heard all over the court room, |
II guess I viii now accommodate
the people who are all on my side
with my autograph, while you ar
que that point, Scoville; it has
nothing 70 do with the case, any
how. am not crazy now; the only
question is whether or not | was
sane on the second Of July: that's
the point Tor the jury to decide
Getting his ear ! asked him
what he had done with the |
Christmas gift sent him BY the Gar
field and Arthur Club Of Meyers
dale.
"0h, yes" drawing back, says he,
Il see what you are after, you are
one of those 'cranks, l suppose that
would like to hang rae. Just wait
until I'get out Of this trouble, ] VIII /
pay you half breeds" UP for your
freshness. I am Q 'stalwart, and |
don't want anything TO do with you
hali-bree6ls, up there in the noun
tains. All you are good for is to
sup whiskey, and run Illicit distil-
leries. The Deity viii protect NE
from your ropes.
Turing TO the bailif, Guiteau said
he once stopped at this place, (Mey-
ersdale) where the notorious rope !
came from, and he found more
'cranks' loa1ing around the stores
and taverns there, than any otheri
place of its size he had ever visit /
ed.
He evidently did not appreciate /
your generous gilt Mr.. ~Cranks.
Put your guns down, purity.
Gen. A. II Cof1roth has been to
Washington lately, trying to mend |
his fences" They say here he is TO
be the Democratic candidate for
Governor, next year. He was OBJ
severed or the floor of the House, a
few days since, conversing very
pleasantly with the members. | no.
ticed be looked quite longingly at
his old seat, on the Democratic
side, now occnpied by the Hon.
Dan Ermentrout, Of Berk's county.
This would seem quite natural ~
anyone who has been there before.
Colonel Campbell, his distinguished
successor, of course has his seat on
the other side amongst the Republic
can members. I nave not seen him
yet, but hope TO, quite frequently,
this winter. Colonel Jake" was
made chairman of the committee on
manufactures, by Speaker Keller.
His immediate predecessor, Hon.
Morgan Wise, of Greene, filed that
position last congress.
Mr.. John Hoffman is here, closing
up the pension work Of the late
committee, which was so well pre-
sided over by our late member.
Yesterday the new committee Or
ganized and appointed Mr.. A Van
Center, of Indiana, its clerk, vice
Hoffman resigned. This was natu-
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