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to President Arthur that he cut out,
the mean dirty whelp.n

the mean dirty whelp."
Scoville had a running fire with the
prosecution as his speech progressed.
His motive was not to shield Gui-
teau, but to save the American nation
and the judiciary from the disgrace Of
hanging an insane man. He denounced
Corkhill for gratuiously insulting DR..
North by asking him il he wa ever ar
rested for a crime.
Corkhill stated that he himself had
tried North in this court. Recess.
After recess Scoville continued his
review of the evidence, and claimed
that the prisoner had been free, frank
and outspoken in all things that he
had considered at the jail, with every
one that the prosecution sent there, and
always without reserve; and had he
been sane and playing q part he would
not have done so.
absence Of a motive on Guiteau's part,
Scoville said: You cannot find an in
stance In history, you cannot suppose a
case, where a man forty years Of age,
who has never before committed crime,
who has never for an hour associated
with criminals or bad people; who on
the contrary has always sought society,
not only Of the better class Of people
but of Christian people, you cannot
conceive of such a mans committing
such a crime without motive; nothing
but the theory Of insanity can possibly
account for such an act as Guiteau's.
ton that Guiteau might have been
actuated by a desire for revenge, and
argued the improbability of such as
sumption, from the fact that If any
ground for i'll will had existed on Gui-
teau's part, 1t was against Sec'y Blaine,
and according to the inexplicable laws
of the mind would have been executed
against him.
There cannot possibly be shown, said
Scoville, any i'll will on his part towar1
President Garfield.
Col. Corkhill: You seem to forget
that he killed him.
Without noticing this comment SEQ
vile next took up the hypothesis: Crime
was committed from an overpowering
desire for notoriety, and claimed that
history failed to point out a case where
such a crime was committed purely and
simply from such motive.
Looking up from his paper a few
minutes later, Guiteau called out with
a satisfied air: Porter is sick; l guess
the Lord is attending to him.
Scoville alluded to the taunt Of
the prosecution that the experts
for the defense had gone back on
them, and said in explanation, when
he reached Washington he did not
know the name of a single expert. He
knew Guiteau to be crazy, but how to
show it to the country and convince a
jury of his countrymen was the burden
that pressed him. Then came the letter
from DR.. Worcester; that little man
from the great state of Massachusetts,
the state that holds the Athens of
America; he wrote, if half what was
said Of Guiteau was true, he was crazy.
Scoville continued: Well, he came
here and he saw some one.
Guiteau: He saw CorkhiIl and he
bought him over.
Scoville: at any rate this great au-
thor on American insanity or or this
irst American author, whatever it be,
could not on the stand when asked to,
give me the title of his own book. SEQ
vile severely criticised the course of
DIR. Worcester and classed him with
the government eonspirators.
Adjourned until tomorrow.