Show LATEST TELEeBAMS THE Tirll L GuUtean iaf > the Floor and is TeSliatT His Story Washington 29The crowd in and about the court this morning is greater than ever Immediately upon the open ing of court Guitteuu was called to the I witness stand He took bis place closely watched and guardei by the police and I court officers He was asked by Sco ville to give some incidents from his earliest recollections of his mother Guitte replied Am I here to ba put on as a regular witness today or only 10 identify some letters I suppose the latter I am not feeling at all well today to-day but shell be much better in a week or so ScovJlle have arranged to examine you today and there are no other witnesses wit-nesses present GuitteauYou should have had your witnesses on band I object to going on the stand when I am not feeling well lobe lo-be subjected to crossexamination by counsel for the prosecution I have got a good deal to say I want to go over the whole business carefully and scientifically scientific-ally so to speak and 1 want to be in good talking condition Scoville shall only ask you some simple questions < GuitteauI am willing to answer provided pro-vided the prosecution will not take advantage ad-vantage of my presence on the stand to force wr > to state my entire defense Juds i Porter of the prosecution suggest sug-gest a ant the papers and letters which were put in evideuce and identified yesterday yes-terday should be read as they must necessarily be at some stage of the I trial Scoville explEined that he had endeavored endeav-ored to arrange for the introduction of his evidence according to his ideaof propriety pro-priety and logical fitness He knew the prisoner was not feeling well today and he had expected that he would become tired or exhausted when he had proposed I to ask the indulgence of the court and i postpone furtber examination He did I desire however to ask the prisoner few questions today GuitteauI am perfectly willing to do that but I do not want the prosecution to take advantage of my presence here to crossexamine me today ScovilleTne court will relieve yoti if you feel ill GuiUeau = With that understanding I will go on Col Corkhill We cannot submit to any such arrangement as that bcovilla We do not ask your consent I shall appeal to the court Judge Cox stated that if the witness w rit on the bland to testify he must submit sub-mit to being crossexamined and if his examination as u witness was begun it could not be suspended oxcept by consent of counsel on the other side Guiteau nodding his head approvingly approv-ingly Thats the law judge as I understand I under-stand it After some further discussion Guitteau was removed from the stand and Scoville proceeded to read the letters They were all written by Guitteau to his father and other members of his family and covered period of 15 or 20 y irs As the Heading jaf the letters progressed I GuStleau occasionally commented upon them or suggested the proper word when Scoville hesitated While one from tbe Oneida community was bfingread Guit teau said Well you can see I was badly cranked about that time At another an-other time Scoville hesitated and said U Heres a word I cannot make out Civilization it the word prompted Guitteau4 You can see how badly mixed I got in that miserable community It makes rrt mad every lime I think of it 1 wish these letters were out of eJid once Scoville read from ODe of the letters I am in with a esus Ohriat and company and I am working for them That was my sentiment senti-ment said Guitteau and that has been my position ever since In another fetter addressed to his father the prisoner had requested two or three hundred dollars Guitteau oommented on this letter saying say-ing Father didnt send the money He always thought I was badly cranked Another lettet was rORd in which the writer criticized severely the Oneida community com-munity and referred to a circular in closed which also denounced the society and its practices Guitteau exclaimed Several of the New York dailies took up my circular and devoted editorial comments com-ments to it That was a little bit ofr revenge I had for living in than miserable society Im glad to know they are broken up now I was a virtuous vir-tuous man all tbe time I wai there though I want that understood The letters finished at noon and Guitteau resumed re-sumed the witness stand Scoville began to que = lion him in regard to his early life Guitteau responded promptly intelligently in-telligently and with perfect coolness for some minutes Apparently eiijying the situation and his freedom to talk Alluding Allu-ding to his fathera second marriage he said smilingly He went off ono day without consulting mo nt ell and got married I thought that was a funny way of doing business and got mad over it When e allusion was made o the Oneida community GuittcaU became very much excited and denounced the community and his fathers course in peruading him to go there < KWby do you blame your father asked Sc ville Because if ho had not been out of the way I never should have gone under the influence of that miserable fanaticism There never was such epiritual fanata cim in the world The amount of it all was to speak plainly noyes the sole idea of it was to get a chance to sleep with the young girls Nobody else could though all the time I was there 1 WES practically a shaker Ina glad the miserable stinking community is broken up and I hope the United States government govern-ment will break up that miserable Mormon Mor-mon community in Utah Guitteau gave his views on his fathers religious belief I and was asked if he had peculiar views i on healing diseases Ho replied Oh ye father was an awful crank on that subject f Y BUScovifle What d9YO mein by crank ouiiteau Well that 5 the s < boriiiw5y I of puling it when you want to say a man is pretty badly cranked Guitteau ti in reply to a question said he did not bo hove in any religion until his conversion thats the word they use you know which was in 1859 when he came under the influence of Beecher and Young Mens Christian Association Beecher up to that time was supposed to be a virtuous vir-tuous man Guitteau told the story of his connection with the Oneida his news paperexperience and Chicago legal adventures ad-ventures He was thirty days in the tombs in jail several times but never was indicted before In order to secure the Chicago InterOcean he offered to make one wealthy man governor of Illinois Illi-nois if he would advance the money He made no direct promise to anybody I else but consulted Charley Reed Heed put in 525 and Im sorry to say he hasnt got it yet Chicago 29 Tribunes Washington The testimony of Guiltetus brother made a marked impression and will have no small effect It was the main subject of talk during recess and is regarded re-garded by all as of great importance No doubt the prosecution will use it with telling effect in their closing arguments and will urge the jury to accept his lifelong opinion as to his brothers mental men-tal and moral responsibility against any theory which he may have formed when his brother was arraigned on a criminal charge and when nature asserted itself and he was bending every energy to save his brothers life and the family fame The appearance 6f Guitteau as a wit nass in his own defense of course made a great stir He had a scared look and seemed quite mild not to ay cringing He cast timid glances around the room as if conscious that he sat in a conspicuous conspicu-ous place where he could be available asa as-a target for avengers Washington 29 Guitteau said today in testifying This idea of buying the InterOcean was to make it the great organ of the west to get the advertising patronage of the Tribune lie suggested it to some firstclass newspaper men who said it was a brilliant idea and thought I I it feasible I consulted with several parties and all thought it a grand scheme but would not put money intoit so it fell throuh Among others I applied to Mr Adams President Pres-ident of the Second National Bank of Freeport supposed to be worth 500000 I told him I would make him governor of Illinois and he said I he did not want to be governor He had been state state senator and was a man of reputation and character but he did not pan out very well after my interview with him He did not have any political i aspirations I wanted to get hold i of those fellows who had both aspirations aspi-rations and money they were the Kind of fellows to help me Adams didnt seem to care anything about being governor He was 60 years of age and he preferred his old simple way of living and didnt care about I going into politics I also consulted my old friend Charlie Reed on the I matter I believe he put 825 into it which he has not got back yet i laughing I went into theology after that and that was worse than I thenewspaper business The idea I of publishing the New York Herald simultaneously in Chicago was part I of the InterOcean scheme I lopked about buildings and presses r consulted con-sulted the manager of the Western Union Telegraph company and also the manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Pa-cific The latter was just starting at this time and its manager was an active young fellow who wanted to get business I said I proposed to duplicate the New York Herald dispatches and he thought it an immense im-mense thing and so it was We wrote to Jas Gordon Bennet about the dispatches I thins I told him if he helped me out in the matter I would consider the Herald suit I tit an end After you gave up the newspaper enterprise in Chicago what did you I do GuitteauThat brought me down to the winter and spring of 1S7G I tried to pick up the law business again which I had neglected but the law business was sparce and I found it hard to get any Then I went to your place in Wisconsin and worked around the housestudied theology and the New Testament read papers and soaped trees and that hind of tiling In October 187G I was in Chic go during the Moody and Sankey meetings I attended at-tended the pfciyer meetings and services ser-vices regularly day nightduring three months Moody was there from October to January during all that time I was with Moody and bore an active part I was assisting and helped around in general way I spoke at prayer meetings frequently fre-quently Some time in November during the Moody work I heard lKittridge a Chicago pastor of the Third Presbyterian church say in reference to the text If I will meaning John tarry till I come what is that to thee V Brethren I have to confess as a man of God that I know not what that means At that time there was much expectation ex-pectation in the public mind that the Savior might soon appear and the idea has pervaded peoples mind ever since That set my brain whirling and I began to investigate it I went to work in the Chicago public library and dug out my lecture on the second sec-ond coming as a result of that investigation in-vestigation I went to work and wrote my lecture My idea of that lecture is briefly thus That the second coming of Christ occurred on the destruction of Jerusalem in the clouds directly over Jerusalem that it was in the very spirit of the word and that the destruction of Jerusalem was he outward sign of This r doming I hold thafrm all these eighteen centuries the churches o have all been in eriorsupposlDgthe i d 1 F tiIo 7 second coming of Christ to be in the future That is the proposition on which my lecture was written and that was the result of three or four years investigation on that subject Witness then went on to relate his various failures in delivering his j r lectures in Chicago JacksonRacine Kalamazoo Ann Arbor Detroit 1 Ypsilanti Toledo Cleveland Buf 1 falo Washington Rochester Syracuse Syra-cuse Albany Troy and elsewhere He frequently laughed as he repeated some humorous incidents of his failures At various times he was n mf ofrTrailroad trains for not pay ing his fare and arrested for not paying his board bills At other j times he grew excited in asserting that in all he did he was like St Paul engaged in the services of God and that God was therefore responsible for his board bills On iL i L this latter point he said I did not give up lecturing because of my repeated failures I stuck to my work My idea was that as I was working for the Lord I would do my duty and let him take care of me as he felt disposed I went into that whole business to serve the Lord i not to make money Success or failure fail-ure was nothing me I considered = that the Lords affair My duty was to continue with my work Paulhad no success because I he had new ideas on theology I kept thinking of Paul all the time and he stuck to his theology all the time On my T way from Baltimore to Washington avoided the conductor who had ordered me to gefc off at the relay house and so managed to get on to Washington The most curious thing about it was that after I had changed my seat a man came along and said to me My friend are you going to Washington I said Yes He said Would you like a good boarding house I said Yes and he said he could take me to u 1 one Now I had been pray ing I would get a boarding board-ing house as I did not want to go to a hotel and had no sooner got the prayer out when this man came along and was just as free and i easy with me as if he had known me 20 years Now that Icall prov idence Ihaye had hundreds of that kind of experiences where direct answer to prayer has be friended me While the prisoner was giving his testimony he was watched most attentively by all the medical experts present and with great cnriosity by every person in the the crwoded courtroom At times he showed his exhaustion by lowering his voice and it was inconsequence in-consequence of these signs that the court adjourned early |