The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-20

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the shooting and subsequent arrest OF
Guiteau, his object being to show that the
prisoner was perfectly calm and cool.
ScoVille again complained that the prose-
cution had failed TO call Detective Neil.
fresh to the stand, whose evidence would
have been OF service to the prisoner.
Guiteau-They came to my cell and tried
to draw me out. talked to them little
and told them about the Deity and my in.
spiratiOn, and now they suppress all that
evidence. That shows the iniuuity in this
prosecution, and God Almighty will curse
every one on this prosecution, in my
opinion.
After short pause the prisoner added,
THAT reminds me to say that Judge Porter
has been pretending to be sick for two
days. ! hope it will be providential to keep
him sick. l hope the Lord will take him
down below quick, and then send for Cork.
kill"
AS Scoville proceeded, Corkhill made
frequent, and as 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 productions US evidence in this case OF
o letter written by the prisoner, and which
he (Corkhiftj had intercepted and mutila.
ted by cutting off the signature and such
portions Of it us he thought might benefit
the prisoner "a thing" said Scoyille
which was never before permitted in a
court OF justice, not even upon the trial OF
u civil suit"
Corkhill (sneeringly)-Thats your opin-
ion merely, Mr.. Scoville; it amounts to
nothing us fact.
Scoville-Well, let it be my opinion. I
presume l am entitled to one, and so is the
jury.
Guiteau with energy)-It was friend,
(by alluslon to President Arthur that he
cut out. Tie mean dirty whelp.
AS Scoville continued the counsel for the
prosecution frequently interrupted him,
and running fire was kept up between the
counsel for some time.
The speaker disclaimed Us his motive the
desire to shield the prisoner for the honor
OF the Guiteau family. His greatest desire
was to save the American nation and the
American judiciary from the disgrace OF
hurrying to the gibbet an insane man.
Abiding to the evidence of DR.. North, the
speaker charged that this was another in.
stance OF untAirneSs. The District Attorney,
without the slightest evidence or reason for
so doing, had asked the witness, "Wcre
you ever indicted for crimew and the
witness had responded quickly and frankly,
NO, sir; and never expect to be-"
Corkhill-I happened to know the man
well.
Scoville-All the more reason why YOU
should not thus gratuitously insult him:
Col. Corkhill-Well, l tried him in this
court; since remembered his face, when
he took the stand, and l found afterwards
that he was here on an appeal from tile
police court AS the audience laughed al
this point scored by the District Attorney,
Mrs. Scoville became very angry, and com
planned in audible tones Of the District At.
torney's meanness, as she termed it.
The hour for recess having arrived Mr..
Scoville conferred for moment with Judge
Cox as to how long the recess should be
ordered.
The audience began to arise, and Guiteau
impatiently called out: "Your Honor, VIC
are waiting on you. Amt YOU going to an.
nounce recess ~ At this the Crier raised a
laugh by calling out: "Well, come along;
we'll have recess"
After recess SCoville continued his re-
view Of the evidence, and claimed that the
prisoner had been trunk and outspoken in
@ll things, and that he had conversed Mt the
Jail with every one whom the prosecution
sent there, and always without reserve
Had he been sane and playing the part he
would not havedone so. Commenting upon
us he claimed, the absence Of motive on
Guiteau's part, Scoville said: "You can.
not find an instance in history, nor you
cannot suppose case, where man forty
years OF age, who has never for an hour as
soCiated with criminals or bad people, but
who, on the contrary, has always sought
the society not only Of better class o
people, but OF Christian people; you canno
conceive that such man committed suCl
crime withouta motive. Nothing but thu
theory ol insanity can possibly account fol
such an act as Guiteau's."
SCoville then discussed the assumption
that Guiteau might have been aCtuated By
desire for revenge, and argued the i'm
probability OF such an assumption, from
the fact, that il any ground for ill will ex
listed on Guiteau's part it was against See
retary Blaine, and according to the mex
orable law OF the mind, it would have beer
executed against him. "There cannot pos
sibly be shown" said Scoville, "any II
will on his part part toward President Gar
field"
Col. Corkhill-You seem to forget h,
killed him.
Without noticing this comment, Mr.. SEQ
vile next took up the hyphothesis that th
crime was committed from an oyerpoyer
ing desire for notoriety, and claimed tina
history failed to point out case wher
such a crime was committed, purely AM
simply from such a motive, and that it wa
incompatible with reason and impossible
for the human mind to conceive OF sucl
motive Us sufficient to induce any san
man to commit such an act. That he kille,
the President as q disappointed oftic
seeker, is more than improbable, said Sec
vile, "for had he brooded over som
wrong Of this kind, something Of his disar
pointment would have cropped out; Ii
would have said something in his intel
course with other people, indicating h
disappointment or bad temper on the sul
ject. Nothing would have been more M
, ural in the interval before be had made u
his mind to kill the President
Guiteau-"0h that's all bosh about n,
Q beinga disappointed ofIice-seeker. Att
Q the first Of June my whole mind was q
: the political situation, and l would n
I have taken a Cabinet position II 1t hi
y been offered me-"
!, Looking up from his paper few minut
It later Guiteap called out with satisfied a
9 Porter is sick. guess the Lord is atten
/ ing to him."
h scoyille alluded to the 'ttannt' OF 4
prosecution, that experts for the deien