Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-20

present moment, desire to call attention
| 10 it. 1t comes with great grace from the
Empire State, from that grand old State Of
| the Republic, the State that sends both the
brains, the money and the commerce OF
the na.Sn 1 iS srfis s,ss rssTa u
been that the burden of proof was
On the Defendant,
but the Cour: of Appeals, with grand
magnanimity, says that the burden of proof
is on this prosecution to prove thar man
not only committed the act, but also that
he was sane at the time he committed il.
In the name of Justice, and in the name of
the American people, and in the name Of
the American judiciary, desire to thank
/ those gentlemen of the Court of Apeals OF
New York.
Scoville Immediately resumed his argu.
ment, reading from the evidence Of several
witnesses who were at the depot and saw
the shooting and subsequent arrest of
Guiteau, his object being to show the pris
oner was
Perfectly Calm and Cool.
and in condition as to nerves and intellect
at variance with the hypothesis of insanity
under such circumstances.
Scoville again complained the proSecu-
ton had failed to call Detective McEltresh
to the stand, whose evidence would have
been OF service to the prisoner.
Guiteau-Thcy came to my cell and tried
TO draw me out. talked with them little
and told them about the Deity and my in
piration, and now they suppress all that
evidence. That shows the iniquity in this
prosecution and God Almighty will curse
everyone on this prosecution, in my opin-
ion. After short pause, the prisoner
added-That reminds me to say that Judge
Porter has been pretending to be sick for
two days. hope il will be providential to
keep him sick. hope the Lord will
Take Him Down Below
Quick. and then send for COrkhill.
As Scovillc proceeded Corkhill made fire.
Quen;, and rs the speaker evidently
thought, sighting comments, until finally,
becoming irritated he turned upon the
District Attorney and denounced. in scath-
ing terms, his unfair conduct and instanced
his production as evidence in this case, OF
letter written by the prisoner, and which
he (Corkhill had intercepted and mutilated
by cutting Off the signature and such por-
ton as he thought might benefit the pris-
oner-"a thing" said Scoyille, (which was
never before permitted in court OF just
ice, not even upon the trial
ora Civil Suit.
Corkhill, SneerinGly: That's merely
your opinion, Mr.. Scovillc; it amounts 10
nothing rs q fact.
Scoville-Well. let it be my opinion. |
presume am entitled TO one, and So is this
jury.
Guiteau. with energy-It was n friend
" alusion to President Arthur, that he
cut out, the mean, dirty whelp.
AS Scoville continued, the counsel 6er
the prosecution frequently interrupted
him, and a running fire was kept up be-
t,,aa,, th. cannsala for soma. ttu,e The
speaker disclaimed as his motive the desire
to shield the prisoner for the honor of the
Guiteaulfamily. His greatest desire was
to save the American nation and the
American Judiciary from the disgrace OF
hurrying
An Insane Man.
Abiding to the evidence Of DR.. North,
the speaker charged that this was another
instance of unfairnCss. The District At
torney. without the slightest evidence or
reason for so doing. had asked the witness,
were YOU ever indicted for crime? and the
witness had responded quickly and frankly,
no. sir; and never expect TO be.
Corkhill-l happened to know the man
we'll.
Scovillc-All the more reason who you
should not thus gratuitiously insult him.
Corkhill-Well | tried him in this court.
| remembered his face when lie took the
stand. and found afterwards that he was
here on an appeal from the Police Court.
As the audience laughed at this point
scored by the District Attorney, Mrs. SEQ
Vile became very angry and complained,
in audible tones, of the
District Attorneys Meanness.
rs she termed it.
The hour of recess having arrived, SEQ
Vile conferred for Il moment with Judge
Cox. as to how long the recess should be
ordered The audience began TO arise and
Guitcau, impatientiy called ont, Your
Honor, we're waiting on you. Amt you
going 10 announce recess2" At this the
crier raised n laugh by calling out well,
come along we'll have recess.
After Recess.
Scoville continued his review of the evil
dencc. and claimed the prisoner had been
frank and outspoken in all things. That
he had conversed at Jail with
every one the prosecution sent there,
an always without the least reserve.
Had he been sane and playing part, he
would not have done so. Commenting
upon. as he claimed, the absence of a mo-
tive on Guitcau's part, Scoyille said: You
cannot find an instance in history; you
cannot suppose a case, where man forty
wears of age, who has never before COM
associated with criminal or bad people;
who. on the contrary, has always sought
the society not only Of the better class OF
people. but of Christian people; you can
not conceive Of such mans committing
such crime
without Motive.
Nothing but the theory OF insanity can
possibly account for such an act as
Guiteau's."
ScovilIe then discussed the assumption
| that Guiteau might have been actuated by
| desire for revenge, and argued the inn
probability of such an assumption from the
! fact that If any ground for i'll will existed
| on Guiteau's part, il was against Secretary
| Blaine. and according to the inexorble Laws
| of mind. il would have been executed
| against him. There cannot possibly be
| shown, said Scoville, any i'll will on his
part toward President Garfield.
Col. Corkhill-You seem TO forget he
| killed him.
| Without noticing this comment ScoTille
| next took up the hypothesis that the crime
was committed from an oyerpowernS
Desire for Sotoriety,.
and claimed that history failed to. point ont
| a case where such crime was committed.
| purely and simply from such motive, and
| that il was incompatible with reason and
| impossible for the human Inindto conceive
/ Of such a motive @ sufficient
TO induce any sane man 20. commit such
| crime. That he killed the President as a
| disappointed otsee seeker, Is more than
improbable, SAID scoyille, for had he brood
ed over some wrong Of this kind, some
thing of his lisappointnent would have
cropped out He would have said some
thing in his intercourse with other people
indicating his disappointment or bad tenn
per on ths subject Nothing would have
been more natural in the interval before
me had made up his mind
To XIII the President.
| Guiteau-Oh, that ali bosh about me be
ing disappointed ofice seeker. After the
IsI OF June my whole mind was on thu
political situation. and | wouldn't hay,
tsken a Cabinet position II il had been OF
fered me.
Z Yo,or Cuftaayt calied nut with a satisfied