Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-06
THE GUITEAU CASE.
scoyirIc and Reed ffata 40 wsrs. nee
Not Sanguine OF Success.

Not Sanguine OF Success.
WASHINGTON, January 5-Scovillc and
Col Reed will be engaged all day upon the
preparation of the law points which they
will, Saturday, present the court for its
ruling. Neither of these gentlemen appear
at all sanguine Of obtaining q verdict favor
able to their client, yet both stoutly main.
tain not only that Guiteau was legally ire
sponsible for his act, but at this moment
an insane man. his own assertion To the
contrary Notwithstanding.
Scoville was greatly disappointed AT his
failure 10 get before the jury, yesterday,
additional expert evidence with which he
had expected 10 rebuke the testimony OF
goternmcnt experts.
WASHINGTON, January 5-Thc counsel
for the defense in the Guiteau case will pre-.
sent their law points 10 Judge Cox to-mor.
row morning. His honor will rule upon
them Saturday immediately after opening
OF court. Dayidge will then make the open.
ing argument for the prosecution which
will probably occupy the entire day.
Scoville will reply for the defence on
Monday, and will he followed bv Col. Reed
and Guiteau, who will be permitted TO ad.
dress tie Jury ii he desires 10 do so. Judge
Porter will make the closing argument u
the jury.
Scoyiile remarked this morning he didn't
think the arguments would consume more
than four days. Ii this expectation Is re-
allied, the case will probably go to the jury
not later than Thursday next.
Paying tho Witnesses.
Disbursements for witness fees and mile.
age by the marshal places the cost of the
government OF witnesses in the Guiteau
trial q, 800. and the witness for the defense
at S2,2i9 The bills of many witnesses are
not yet paid.
WASHINGTON January 5.-At the jail, the
orders are, no admittance to visitors, who
call 10 see Guiteau. His brother and sis
ter are the only persons who will be per.
mittcd to visit him" said the warden. This
rule, the warden explained, was strictly in
accordance with the wishes o. thc.prison-
ers counsel, and added, "it quite agrees
with mine" For time the prisoner was
no, allowed TO see any person, to read any
newspaper, or learn anything in regard to
the condition Of his victim, ana this course
which was rather the Withholding OF in
dulgencc, discretionary with the warden,
than the application of the unusual rigor
was made the subject Of vast
Amount OfCriticisn.
Upon the arrival OF Scoville, the prisoner
was allowed to receive visitors and read the
papers. and as he Is quite ready 10 talk, and
at times has not been in accord with SEQ.
Vile, he has doubtless said and written a
great many things to which his friends
have taken exception. IL has been, how
ever, to the people who would never have
been admitted but for the request OF
Friends and Counsel.
$50 many correspondents added the
warden, draw upon, their imaginatioDs
entirely, and describe rs realities what
exist only as fgment Of their own brains,
that am quite disposed TO be pleased with
the proposition not TO allow Guiteau to be
interviewed any more. Why. day or two
ago one of the correspondents wrote up, In
vivid portraiture, an account OF what he
termed Guiteau's New Years reception;
that two or three hundred people, the ma
iority ladies. called upon the prisoner,
brought him flowers and delicarics, chatted
with him in short, Guiteau was permitted
te hold
Regular Leyee
in the corridor. As O matter OF fact how
ever. not above twenty or thirty persons
saw him New Years day, and then only in
cidentally, rs they would see any OF the
prisoners who are permitted to be seen on
days when visitors are admitted. Upon
Christmas and New Years the friends OF
the prisoners are allowed to visit them and
bring little presents or dclicacics. IL Is
not q matter simply entrusted 10 the dis
cretion Of the warden, but he IL obliged 10
admit visitors upon these occasions. II is
my opinion, also. that large majority OF
visitors at the court room daily, are
strangers from abroad. who take in the
Guiteau trial as one OF the sights OF the
Capital.
Arrangements for the Closing scenes.
Judge Cox has issued thefollowing direc-
tions, as 10 the management during the
argument OF the case VI Guitean " the
Jury: No visitors will be allowed to stand
in the northeast corner Of the room-the
Jury Is in this corner;-no visitors TO enter
there utter the argument il commenced
each day, so as 10 pass between the counsel
and Jury, though visitors may be admitted
who are invited 10 seats on the bench.
All persons leaving the court room dur-
ing the argument must pass out through
the south door, to avoid passing between
the counsel and the jury, and for that OBJ
ject passage way is 10 be left between the
trial table and the audience.
The south passage way Is to bc kept sum
GENTLY clear 20 allow passing in and out
and a space before the Jury 10 be kept clear.
The Marshal is charged with the execution
Of the foregoing directions.
No Truth IN the Report.
cAsToS, January 5.-The rumor In re.
gard TO the purchase OF the Cleveland d
Marietta Railroad by the Valley Railway
(,ornr,anv has not grown out of any action