Show LATEST TELERAM8 I GUITTEU He I is Still on the Stand and Speaking His Pleeie Telling AbORt HSs IrsplrsSIe V Washington 30 Guitteaua recital yesterday of his varied experiences as a religious tramp and deadbeat seems to have whetted the interest in the case for despite the rain the crowd was as great as yesterday Upon the opening of the court Guitteaa was taken directly to the witness box The witness was asked by covi1Ie to identify some papers The i first shown him was a handbill announc ing a lecture at Evanston Ills Yes I said Guitteau turning it around to the jury and with an air of satisfaction that was an announcement of one of my lectures Shall I read it ScovilleNo I will put the papers in evidence Guitteau then gave his ideas concerning the religious tenets of the Oneida community com-munity Witness continuad to say 1868 instead of 1878 and his attention being called to it explained I dont feel very well today My brain dont work just right probably owing to the rain Guit teau then resumed his narrative of his experience in trying to lecture On one occasion he tried to lecture lec-ture against Bob Ingersoll who was to deliver a lecture against hell while he witness proposed to lecture on the existence of a hell While he found however people very ready to pay lifty cents to hear there was no hell they wouldnt pay a cent to hear there was a hell Witness was asked to identify s book handed him and said Oh yes that my revised I work called Truth a companion book to the Bible I have not eeen it since it was taken from me when I was arrested Witness then desired de-sired to read a passage and read a page or two deEcriptive of the trials of the apostle Paul in endeavoring to introduce Christianity That was just my case said Gait teau striking his fist on the desk HI strove to enlighten the world just as Paul did I had no money and no friends and I had just about as rough a time as Paul s II Witness went to New York on the steamer Stonington when she struck the Narragansett I thought his time had come then but it hadnt WHnew wrote his speech Garfield against Hancock Han-cock in the public library at Boston It waa originally intended for Grant as he witness supposed Grant would be bl nominated at Chicago j but after Garfield l was nominated it had to be all worked over When in New York witness called on General Arthur to offer his services in the campaign He also called at the republican re-publican headquarters i taw all the big men they were glad to see him He consulted with Governor Jewell General l Arthur and others They were very I friendly but told him they must have men of big reputation like Grant and Conklitg to do the speaking Witness added I was on free and easy terms With Arthur Jewell ana toe rest of them Witness made his firet application applica-tion for office soon after General Gar fields election He called on General Garfield at the White House After Garfield was at leisure he Bays I shook hands with him and handed him my speech on which was written the Paris consulships He knew me at once I left him reading the speech and that was the only interview 1 ever had with President Garfield I wish to state here hat my getting an office or not getting get-ting an office bad nothing whatever to do wilh my removing the President That was an act of an inspiration and was done as a political necessity Witness Wit-ness then related his experiences at the state department and his interviews with Secretary Blaine described as he termed it t the modus operandi of getting at the secretary of state Witness described his last interview with Blaine who rather hurt his feelings by his rather I abrupt manner which was so in contract with their previous cordiality Witness then determined to see the President and with considerable exhibition of excitement ex-citement related his efforts to see the President Witness continued The party was at log erhtads and I got very much worried over it I wrote several notes to the President telling him something must be done but he paid no attention to it I kept worrying over the political situa lion and I knew this nation was coming to grief Witness was then asked as to the inspiration in-spiration which he said impressed him to remove the President and replied The inspiration s I understand it is where a roans mind is taken possession of by the supreme power when he acts outside himself Witness then desired Ito read from a printed slip purporting to be an interview with the prisoner giving his theory on the suVject Counsel for the prosacution objected to the rending The court ruled against the use of the slip or to the use or it by witness to refresh re-fresh his memory and Gnittesu resumed Sudd ply on Wednesday evening after Ccnk inga resignation he thought if Presidcuw Grnrld were out Of the way all would go well He tried to shake it off bu it grew In a fortnights time it i hud become a fixed resolve He had never doubted since that time about the 1st of Jua that hew as inspired fle prayed and prayed asking God if Garfield Gar-field were not to be thus removed to get rid of him in some other way Bemoval 1 was necessary to save the nation from ruin I knew the Lord employed me because ho always employs the best material I felt the Lord wanted me to de it to advertise my book No allusion was made the immediate incidents o f the shooting Recess After recess Guitteau said he believe in special providence and had no concern con-cern about personal safety He felt the Lord aud government would take care of i him The Lord he added is no fool He uses the best means for hia work anc L he has provided all the guards the court and the jury ScaviHe Have you distinct recollection recollec-tion of the incidents of the 2d of July Guitteau smilingly Off yes certainly Witness then briefly recited leis arrest with the least possible feeling When I was finally lodged in jail I felt happ y and said Thank God It is all over with After a few questions he broke out I want to define my position on this one point I believe General Ar thur is a friend of mine He ought to be for I am the man that made him or my inspiration did but I have never yet asked a favor of him and I dont suppose sup-pose I ever shall Guitteaucontinued A few weeks ago I addressed Bennett a note suggesting sug-gesting that he send me 5000 and I think it very likeljr that he will send it I owe probably 1000 and that is every cent I do owe in the world and if Bennett sends me the money I shall pay off my boarding bills He said he did me a great deal of damage in 1874 but Bennett is a goodhearted fellow I have had the idea in my head for twenty years that I should be President of the United States I suppose the people think I have been badly cranked about that I had that idea in the Oneida community I west to Boston with the distinct feel ing that I s was on the way to the White House and I shall make it yet Laughter spread through the audience at this pre diction If I am ever President continued the witness it will be by the act of God I shall get the nomination nomi-nation as Lincoln and Garfield did and I shall be elected as they were I 1 anticipate a decided change of public opinion in regard to me I edid not want to get the Herald down on me that is the reason why I did not press my suit against it I dont care now the snap of my finger about being President I dont care anything about it I dont know if I should take it if 1 was actually nominated and elected The witness related the story of his personal inviting correspondence with view to matrimony and said I want to say a word in reference to my divorced wife The courtNo not now The prisonerI do not know any thing about her nor have I known for years past but she had no business to come here for the prosecutionHewas questioned about the revised edition of Truth The witness answered There is no money in that business in any way shape or manner and never has been When Col Corkhill came tome to-me in July and talked about some great lot of money and some great men backing me with money and all that nonsense I told him about my circumstances and convinced himl had no money S Judge Porter now began the cross examination The prisoner bore the examination examina-tion with considerable selfposses sion although he occasionally got flurried and excited Question You determined to kill General Garfield did you not An swerl decline to answer that That is a very strong way to put it with some excitement I consider myself the agent of the Deity in the matter I had no personal volition in the matter QDid you say to Officer Scott on leaving the depot after the murder mur-der of the President General Arthur Ar-thur is now President AI decline de-cline to answer that Q1Vhy do you object answering that AI suppose I did say that Then he added excitedly I want it distinctly understood I did not do that of my own personal volition but on the inspiration of the Deity I never would have shot the President Presi-dent on my own personal account The Deity inspired the act and the Deity will take care of it The Deity furnished me the money with which I bought the pistol I was an agent the Deity inspired me to i remove the President and I had to resort to my own mind to accomplish accom-plish the Deitys will QThe only inspiration you had was to use a pistol on the President I AThe inspiration consisted in try ng to remove the President for the good of the American people and emphatically all these details are nothing to the case The whole matter was in the hands of the Deity and emphatically I do not want to discuss it any further I appreciate the fact of the Presidents Presi-dents long sickness as much as any person in the world but that is avery a-very narrow view to take of the matter QDid you contemplate his removal re-moval otherwise than by murder ANo sir petulantly I do not like the word murder I do not recollect the actual facts in that matter excitedly If 1 had shot the President of the United States on my own personal account no I punishment would betoo severe nor too quick for me but acting as the agent of the Deity that puts an entirely en-tirely different construction on the act and thats what I want put to the court and the jury and to the opposing counsel I say that the removal of the President was an act of necessity from the situation and for the good of the American people That is the idea want you to entertain and not to settle down on the coldblooded ideaof murder because I never had the first concep tion of murder in the matter QWere you aware it was against t human law The prisoner I felt the Deity would take care of me I never en I tertained the idea of murder the I whole matter I never had any I conception of the matter as murder My mind is perfectly blank on tha subject and has been The cross examination will be continued tomorrow to-morrow 5 I |