The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-22
DR.. GUYS TRIAL IS FINISHED
HIS TIE STIMONY IN HIS OWN DE-
FENCE rs WEAK.
Tells OF ms Drunkenness on the Afternoon
OF His wife's Murder Pathetic At
tempt to Protect Daughter From Dis
e-Verdict 10 Expected To-day.

grace-Verdict 10 Expected To-day.
DR.. Samuel s. Guy, the Far Rookaway
dentist who has been on trial since Monday
before Justice Jayoox in the Supreme
Court at Flushing, charged with having
murdered his wife, may know his fate
within twenty-four hours. When court
adjourned at $50 o'clock last evening
the evidence for both the prosecution and
defence was all in and both sides rested.
DIR. Guy in his own behalf took the wit
ness stand in the afternoon. But for he
fact that the prisoner was being tried for
his life his story was dull and m~onotonous.
1t was shorn Of dramatic incidents and
was given in a mumbling tone that made
frequent repetitions necessary. When
spoken to concerning his wife he buried
his face in his hands. His sobs were not
audible, but it was some time before he
regained his composure sufficiently to
resume his testimony. 4
Perhaps only once through the entire
examination did q spark Of pity 60 out from
the crowded court room to the hapless
witness. II was when he was asked con-
corning the children by his first marriage.
He testified that he had only one child by
that marriage, Arthur Guy, who served
during the Spanish-American War in the
Seventy-frst Regiment. New York National
Guard, and then enlisted three years in the
Regular army and was sent TO the Philip
pines,
On the cross examination District Attor-
ney Darrin made him repeat his statement
that he had but one child by his first mar
riage, his son Arthur.
did you not have a daughter too?'
demanded the District Attorney.
The witness hesitated and finally appealed
to the Court. He didn't want to answer
the question,
you must answer the question: replied
the Court. !
Yes" replied the witness pathetically,
Il have a daughter by my FIRST wife, but
wanted tosleave her out Of this. Oh. |
didn't want her dragged into this He
was excused from answering further ques-
ions on this subject.
DR.. Guy began his testimony by stating
that he was IS years old, that he had been
educated in the Adelphi Academy. Brook
lyn, and that he married his first wife either
in 1873 or 1879. He has one son by his pee
ond wife. Harold. who attends school in New
Hampshire.
Contrary to the testimony OF the wit
nesses for the prosecution. he said that his
relations with his wife were always most
loving and cordial. The week previous to
her death he had taken her to the circus In
Manhattan md the Saturday night pre-
vious to the Monday evening when she was
shot they had gone TO a Brooklyn theatre
together.
we're then shown to him He identified
four Of them as belonging to him, but the
fifth weapon, which the servant Annie
Hansen and Policeman Farley found in his
bureau dra wer upstairs with three freshly
emptied shells in the weapon, he said he
had never seen until 1t was exhibited in
court
Then he got down TO the details OF his
the day and evening OF the
shooting, and shorn Of the seriousness Of its
surroundings II was a weak, pititul story.
He admitted he was under the influence OF
drink that evening when he started home
in company with Albert E. Hague, a car
penter whom he wanted TO repair the outside
steps leading into the kitchen. When they
got near the kitchen door he saw Policeman
Albert T.. Berry coming out, and IN reply
turned a hammer he had borrowed TO fix
a fence. 1t appears that Berry, although
a attached to the police force and on duty
at Far Rocka way was interested in a livery
business and his horses were stabbed in a
barn at the rear OF the Guy home, which
belonged to Mrs. Guy.
DR.. Guy said that he was sober enough
to know what he was doing and he told
Berry that he didn't believe the hammer
story. He said Berry had been in to see
further told Berry he wanted him to stay
away. and Will that Berry left and Guy
entered the house. Meeting the servant
in the kitchen, he says he also told her to
keep the policemen away from his house
or pack her trunk and get out. He remem-
bered hat the servant said thai was the
second time he had insulted her, and Mrs.
Guy came in and told the servant not TO
mind him.
"You see what condition he is in. witness
alleges his wife said TO the servant.
He went INTO the dining room with his
wife. he said, and from there went into
his Office in the front Of the building, too
of his overcoat and hat and lay down on
a couch in the Office and fell asleep. when
he was suddenly awakened by something.
he didn't know what. He sat on the side
of his couch collecting his senses and then
not finding any cigar in his pockets put
on his overcoat and hat and started out
TO get some cigars, when he was arrested
by Policeman Nussbaum at the foot Of the
driveway and taken back into the kitchen
and confronted by the dead body of his
wife.
His composure was considerably shaken
when he reached this stage Of his testimony
and when in completing the examination
Mr.. Mathot asked: Did you love your
wife. doctor?" he buried his face in his
hands.
yes" he managed to say between his
suppressed sobs.
did you kill herr was the next question.
1t came with such startling audiences
that the witness did not seem TO catch
the words at first and the question was
repeated twice; then, choking, the witness
mo, sir"
The first question District Attorney
Darrin asked him on cross-eXamination
was il he had ever been convicted Of a crime.
He replied hat he had been convicted OF
a misdemeanor and after some w~Tangling
the witness said that he was convicted in
the Court OF Special Sessions i'm Jamaica
Of tampering with an electric light meter
by which his home was lighted and was
fined $50. which was paid. Next came
the questions about his children by his
first marriage and at the conclusion OF
this questioning DR.. Guy said his daughter
had been adopted. He was not required
TO tell her present name or ADDRESS.
In the morning session a number Of ed-
witnesses who had seen DIR. Guy
out Of the house Immediately fol-
the alarm over the shooting were
introduced and when the prosecution rested
the jury was excused from the room while
Mathot made a motion TO dismiss,
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