Show TRIAL the court Cor cordially dillY compliments the criminals counsel but refuses somo evidence offered ia in Gur rebuttal and the tedious trial adjourns till thursday caw to the Illers ld washington jan L guitrau kept quiet today to day and awde a inerio of it in in a speed speech i scoville Sc read nn an affidavit fl telling etting forth that he lie is the prisoners eole sole counsel that the prisoner has been beell in euch buell a state of mind that he lie has been unable to assist or sug surest gest any witnesses and that the counsel sine since e the tile dosing closing of the tile case learned of certain material witnesses witness es lie gave a their names natues and ind what I he to would r prove borove corkhill said nothing bo be rai said d on the motion to introduce this evidence col reed addressed the court in faivor of the motion he ile felt sure truit tnt the tile american people is mould not be grud gruppo cc t this il is justi justice CO ho he complimented scoville davidge denied that there was a precedent for reo reopening penin the case and said it would be scandalous scoville replied at great length ind detailed tho the bard hardships sips and difficulties under which the defense had labored in the preparation of their case it was almost impossible to get witnesses to come corno here tho the experts for the defense were compelled to bo be satisfied with diem the tile regular witness fee while the experts for fur tho the government bame here it is supposed I leaving great triin tr iii behind them and slid remained for six weeks and every one efthem plainly showed chov ed by their evidence that they expected full pay for their ker services vices and all knew what that meant and these experts said scoville are still balting rai val ting here to see the result of their evidence in hanging hanzing this prisoner but fortunately forthe for the cause of justice your honor and this jury stand between him and the callows gallows col corl bill could not at this sta staso o allow these rein remarks arks of the counsel to go unanswered lie ile said mid yesterday and would repeat it today to day that lie would not object to the introduction of any new fact material to the defense the only objection tobe to be made by the prosecution had already been mentioned by davidge there had hever never been a trial in this district gitlic rc re so much liberty had been chown by the government Guite guiteau att insisted on being befit hoard heard tile bailiff tried to silence him but was met with an ail angry let or I will slap vou you in tho tile mouth guitrau called out your honor all I want is to show that I tol told d these men on the way to jail that it was the toli political situation and the pressure of inspiration that caused me to remove the president judge cos said the counsel dortho for tho defense came hero a stranger to the courts odthe of tho district and even to the prisoner himself and found himself environed with difficulties from the outset the most cerious difficulty y was that the odium attaching to the assassination made witnesses unwilling g even to allow their names to be an known own to the defense appreciating all these difficulties which embarrassed barr assed the de defense fenee he Judge cos cox had felt disposed to offset this ON 11 with equal latitude arnd more than ordinary a equa y fairness a aness the evidence of insanity could not bo be offered in in his opinion the proof of insanity y should be limited to the evidence in the chief ebie of the defense and rebutting evidence evidelle e of the prosecution he there therefore forc must exclude the evidence of dr mcfarland who scoville scovill P baw would testify to the prisoner s insani insanity alio testimony however of these witnesses by winch which tho the defense expected to prove that the prisoner asserted upon the day of the assassination and and upon the day lay after t the lie motive for liis ills act the court held should be admitted as evidence in J J brooks chief of the treasury secret service was called by scoville he ile had visited the prisoner on oil the nig nighton litof the shooting guiteau was very angry at tho the witness for distauro ing his rest at night alie witness reproved him as a murderer and the tile prisoner eaid said no murderer buta but a christian gentleman n the act wasa was a political necessity for the good bf tho the country adding that the witness being a stalwart could appreciate why he lie did it guiteau said further that lie had thought over and prayed over the matter for six weeks and became convinced eliat the president mustio must go by his hand scoville Bc oville introduced a letter written by villes father which expressed that the prisoner was insane guiteau sneeringly and insultingly reproved scoville Sc for introducing this threatened the bailiff baili fr and said he could get plenty of experts to testify ho lie was as crazy as a loon loan but ho he give a cent for a bucketful of f expert testimony dr beard board was called but ruled on out t and exception noted adjourned |