Show 11 J TELEGRAPHIC NEWS GUITTEAU The Trial Dragging Its Slow Length Alone More Interruptions by the Prisoner i = f J Mrs Seovllle on the tts > aid Washington 25H Bamerling a lawyer of Williamsport Pa who formerly for-merly lived ia Freeport Ills testified to the peculiarities of Luther W I Guitteau The crossexamination proved to be very amusing he being rather pry and de Birioua to give explanations of his answers an-swers Daridge questioned witness searchingly in regard to letter which bis son at his request had written to Freeport to Mr Oiler making inquiries as to the strange action of Luther M Guittoau Witness replied that he had told his son to write such a letter not cut I of any love for Charles J Guitteauf but out of respect for the family i loved L W Guitteau J1 said witness dramatically dramatic-ally leS I did my own brother You have been a sort of consulting counsel in this case I gave ScoviJle all the assistance I could I prepared a brief on the question oi insanity I dont want to disguise nothing I assisted Scoville in every way manner man-ner acd ferny ia the case I have no love for the prisoner none whatever because as I say to youI thought he was terribly wrong in shooting shoot-ing the President and I thick so to day He had no acquaintance with the prisoner pris-oner but subsequently said the prisoner had made atkreat against him h Why broke in the prisoner I never saw you before in my life till you came to the jail last Saturday Scbville then questioned ques-tioned the witness as to the threats Well began the witness we fad a lyceum atj reeport we had debated on the question of the taxation of national na-tional bonds I cannot fir the time The prisoner 11 have not been in Freeport Free-port for twenty years It must have been when I was a boy Witness I was not talking to you sir PrisonerBut I was biking to you Witness You are not fit to talk to the witness Said at the debate there was a coffin and Guitteau on one side and himself and Dexter Nolan on the other Witness said a good deal and wound up the debale by saying the old I gentleman was the best qualified to fill a position with an apron from his chin to his toes with a knife in his hands in the kitchen of the Oneida community peeling peel-ing potatoes The whole court was convulsed con-vulsed with the grave mannor of the witness and enjoyment of the way in I which he pitched into the old gentleman Witness continued The prisoner afterwards after-wards said witness ought to have been killed for aggravating the old man Guitteaus father but that God had decreed otherwise Witness told Guitteaus father of this and the father said notto mind whatGuit said The conversation took place at Chicago The prisoner excitedly denied that there was a word of truth in the story The simplicity nonchalance and solemnity solem-nity of the witness caused the greatest merriment The prisoner dismissed him saying he seemed to be a good fellow but he never knew 111 m before Thomas North of Chicago formerly of Freeport testified that Luther Guit teau was not of right mind The prisoner pri-soner was an exaggerated fac simile of his father Ho never saw anything hypocritical hy-pocritical or dishonest in the prisoner His father was an intensely sincere man tie related the peculiar mode of saying grace at the table of the elder Guitteau which included the use of the words I confess Christ within me with thankful thank-ful heart for this food thank Christ for this dinner etc On one of these occasions after grace had been said Charles Guitteau or Julius as they called tam then came to the table late and was Spoken to by his father in a peremptory and offensive tone Charles passing behind his fathers chair struck his father on the back of the neck His father at once jumped from the chair the two clinched and struggled until finally Charles surrendered and then hey withdrew from the table by themselves them-selves talked the matter over came back and went on with their meal l This was a sudden outburst on both sides The PrisonerMy mother died when I was 7 years old and my father remained re-mained a widower until I was 12 During Dur-ing these years we were exceedingly intimate timate After he married there was more or less alienation between ua Witness wanted to speak of the Oneida community Luther Guilteau was a thorough believer in the tenets of the Oneida community and desired hs family fam-ily to join the community His wife however did not like her children to join it and objected to going there herself The Prisoner That was my stepmother step-mother My mother had been dead a I good many years If she had been alive I never would have behaved in that way Witness related how at a religious and social circle the old gentleman related hw himself and wife were ready to join the Oneida community but were violently vio-lently opposed from so doing by a eon of 20 or 25 years Luther Guitteau jumped from his seat and exclaimed Take a knife and slay him as Abraham did Isaac His manner was so exceedingly shocking that it paralyzed the tongues of every one present Luther attended church occasionally sometimes the Presbyterian church and sometimes the Methodist The Prisoner Hi idea i was that ha was so good he did not need to go to church Ho was a church unto himself him-self Witness i spoke of the prisoner when an office boy He noticed an offensive egotism as though he desired to do more than he was really capable of doing Be wished to usurp the duties of the deputy clerk His greated quality seemed to be egotism He was 15 or 16 years of age when he commenced working in the office I always felt when I was in contact with him like porcupine quills were coming out f r The PrisonerYou and I did not agree very well at that time That was the reason I Jid not like you then I like you now better tha n I ever did in my lifeThe The witness went on to testify about Abraham Guitteau Luthers brother He said his condition of mind was so weak that it was not safe to trust him with business Davidge questioned him as to the religious circle to which witness wit-ness had alluded It came out that this circle was the I Oneida community withtut particular i orfwiz tion and fritnecs thought Ute to Oneida idea of marriage might be realized lompwhere in the indefinite future The prisoner wound up the session ses-sion by saying Noye theory was that this religion WM his first and then came socialism He laid 110an had the right to touch socialism until he was associated with the Savior Adjourned Washington 26Upon opening the Criminal Court Scoville read a telegram tele-gram from Emory AStorrs of Chicago saying hecould not possibly at present owing to professional engagements come to Washington to testify Scoville laid under the circumstances he would not insist upon an attachment for Storra Davidge speaking for the presecution was willing to have Storrs put upon the stand any time daring the progress of the trial and this understanding was accepted by all parties Thou North thenreiumed the witness stand and was crossexamined very closely and at great lengthby Davidge Guitteau interrupting at the very outset and protested there was no truth In witness wit-ness story in regard to the fight between Goitteau and his father He had a good memory and could remember most everything but did not recollect any sucri seene Just as witness was released from the strnd Ouitteau improved the momentary mo-mentary lull to make his first speech of the dsy I notice my friend Henry Ward Beecher is doing some cranky work in this case I used to attend his church and prayer meetings and if your honor knew him as well as I do you would not pay any attention to him There are a good many people who think he is badly cranked socially and have no doubt Mrs Tilton told the truth and that he lied about it and I tell him so publicly lOh well well prisoner that will do for you said Davidge Guitteau was apparently satisfied and nodded with a smile saying Thats all right judge I have had my say on Beecher Im sat isfied General John A Logan then took the stand and was asked Do you know the prisoner Ohl yes of course you do General broke In Guitteau You know me very well Im very happy to meet you againWitness Witness had frequently been besieged by Guitteau to endorse hill application for office but had invariably declined for the reason that the prisoner did not seem to be such a man as he would care to recommend for any office He had never known him in Chicago The first time he oversaw him was when Guitteau called upon him to secure his endorsement endorse-ment The genoral impression he formed of Guilteau was that there was something wrong about his mental arrangements ar-rangements Edmund E Smith employed in the republican national committee rooms during the late presidents campaign thought Guitteau very peculiar flighty and rambling in conversation Guitteau here interrupted in his customary manner man-ner this gentleman wasnt in a position posi-tion to know about matters there He was only a clerk Anyhow Governor Jewell exSenator Dorsey and the rest of us boys were the ones that did the work there John A Morsecoloredattorneyat law saw Guitteau at the White House during March and April took him to be a crazy man Mrs Scoville then took the stand and gave a biographical sketch of Guitteaus life commencing with his early childhood child-hood While the direct examination of witness was still in progress the court adjourned until Monday |