Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1882-01-26
MONDAY. JAN. 16,

was not an orator and that all the defense asked
for was fair, candid and impartial weighing
of the evidence by fair and candid men.
I hold in my hand an Indictment for conspir-
! acy, which 1 hsve framed in my own mind and
| this object of tbs conspiracy was to hang the
prisoner. Scoville proceeded to name the con
| spirators, the district attorney, Judge Porter,
| Mr. Davidge and five of the government ex-
| perts, namely Drs Gray, Hamilton, Kempster,
| Mcdonald and Woorton The counts of this
| Indictment are twenty in number. First they
| have perverted the law in this CASE Scoville
in illustration or support of this count, alluded
cision OF Judge Davis. He said counsel upon
dated the suggestion tLat Judge Davis
! sat with Car1ozo Or Barnard, but have yet to
learn if either of them ever committed more
responsible act than that of Judge Davis
! Scoville warmed up with the subject and de-
nounced in severe language the extra Judicial
act of Judge Davis.
The prosecution state that if the prisoner
knew tho act was wrong on July 2, then he
should bang now. This is not by any means
| the whole Of Or q correct statement of the
law. The court has added in substance as fol-
lows: s'Yet, if in this act he was overpowered
by consciousness coming through his dis
eased mind that what he was doing was neces-
sary for the good Of the country and was spec
| yict him Of murder"
Continuing, Scoville said: ssThe second.
count in the indictment is perversion of testi-
mony and he proceeded to sustain this count by
reading from Davidge's speech comparing it
| with the testimony.
scoville attacked the theory of the prosecu
ton, it was the prisoners own innate or re-
| duired depravity that naturally led I'D to the
killing of the president and discussed at some
length the evidence introduced by them to show
| instances OF the prisoners meanness and de-:
pravity. fI7his evidence" said Scoyile, ''has
in almost every instance been perverted"
Scovl]e continued: Counsel parade here
the debts owed by prisoner, and attempt to
make much of them in this case They are
| weaving"
Guiteau-s:I owe about $1,000, and sup
pose that ought to hang a man. If these peo-
| pie will send in their bills now I'll give them
checks for them, and get them cut of the way
l suppose I've got some money now. I'll get
rid of these people and then I won't owe any
| body.
Scoville then alluded to the incident sworn to
by Shaw, of Guiteau's pawning a worthless
watch for $685. Scovile denounced Shaw He
! believed he lied, deliberately perjured himself
in this case, as also had the contemplate little
out out. 'l'' ~ ''[''' '''"A D'l' W D''p 'N""
Guiteau screamed 'sThis whole testimony
of Shaw is false and no decent man would be-
| lieve it for an instant"
As the court was about to adjourn Guiteau
called ont: 81 desire your honor to read my
speech tonight, so I can discuss with you to-
morrow"
TUESDAY, JAN. II.
Scoville, for the Defense arising to address
the jury began, ''Gentlemen Of the Jury"
when GuiEeau, who had been sitting very quiet
ly in the dock looking over the morning papers
said: ssSeoville, isn't this the best time to get
In that little statement" Scoville said he had
forgotten that little statement, but that he
thought it was as good time as any for it's pre-
sentation. He explained to Judge Cox thatit
was a statement about the assassins speech
which he had prepared and WAS
DESTROYS to read Judge Cox
w a o aSgS aohe SS iv s hs snssa assassin Th
began in heavy. tragedy voice a somewhat
suited appeal to the American judiciary, the
American people, and two or three other things.
to permit him to deliver his speech to the jury.
incidentally he took occasion to say that he was
not in accord with Reed and Scovile; that his
defense was not chronic insanity but transit
DRY mania, and that he based his hopes of &C
qu!ttal on the acquittal Of Sickies, Mcfarland
and Hiscock on the ground of transitory mania
as much as anything else.
Scovllle then took up his Indictment for COLI
splracy to hang Guiteau against Corkhill, Da-
Vluga, Porter, and the experts where he left of
yesterday and discussed the several remaini1e
counts in very much the same way, as on yes
terday. He devoted himself particularly to-
day to Corkllill and Porter. Corkhill, the &C
the prisoner, regardless Of his sanity or insani.
ty, despite the fact that as district attorney be
was an officer of the court, sworn to see that
Justice and not injustice was done He pic
he should have before his imagina
ton, day and night, a terrible Visions Black
form hanging by the neck with pinioned arms.
and should hear from under the black Cap COW
e e1 the shapeess head of the swinging shape,
ut was Gods act, not mine, Corkhill. in the
q l, I;o&n +l>:o
expected burst of eloquence with sheer on
his face, and at it's close thanked Sco7ille o.
tennously for his graphic fore cast of the fu-
ture. The anti-climax thus produced was so
ludlcrous that everybody but Scoville and the
Guiteaus laughed.
Having disposed of counsel for the prosecu.
ton, whose course he pronounced in some par
uculars disgrace to the bar Of America, Sco-
Vile stated that while the government had no
theory, the defense had, and announced that he
to have been such since he was nineteen years
old, and he proceeded to demonstrate it's cor
RICHNESS. He OF course insisted that the
monomania was the result of hereditary pre-
DISPOSITION, and incidentally attempted to prove
that the hereditary faint existed in the Guiteau
family. Adj.
WEDNESDAY,, JAN. 10.
Scoville occupied the whole day and did not
finish his argument for Guiteau Guiteau
avalle ed himself OF moments hesitation on
scovilles part 70 say: 81 presume your honor
intends to permit me to follow scoville," to
which Judge Cox replied: 's Pm considering
ne matter" Then Scoville took up his
Indictment for conspiracy where he lott
9f yesterday-at DR.. Gray of Utica.
r rather desultory way ScoYille reviewed
ne testimony which he gave in pursuance of
lis determination to aid the accomplishments
ne ne fell designs of his co-conspirator, Cork
ill, to-wit, the conviction Of Guiteau.
lie claimed that experts do not know accu-
'ateiy the condition Of the brain of any given
Individual. They ara sometimes mistaken in
heir diagnosis of a case. Though they were
VI paid by the government to swear away the