Show fELEGEAEHIG NEWS a Truck About Gaitteaa 1 W ashington 24 Mrs Drinmer Quifteaus divorced wifai has arrived from Colorado She has already expressed ex-pressed her disbelief in Guitteaua insanity in-sanity Senator Logan explains in an interview inter-view The first time I saw Guilteau was in Washington March last l when the man came to my house bareheaded with sandals on without stockings There was snow on the ground He excused his appearance by saying he lived close by He introduced himself and gave me a speech on Hancock vs Garfield He requested as a personal favor that 1 I would read it To get rid of him I sale I would Next day he called again anti after letting me know what a gnat and important man he was asked me what I thought of his speech I replied that 1 had not had time to read it This put him in a rage and at the same time opened my eyes to the fact that I was dealing with H crank To get rid of him I told him I would read the speech that very night I did not see him again for several weeks when he called and presented mp with a written application He said he intended to put it on file at the state department asking for the position of consul general at Paris He said he had shown It to Secretary Blaine and Blaine had promised prom-ised to give him the place if I would sign the application I refused to sign it on the ground that I knew nothing at all about the man This threw Guilteau into a rage again He drew himself into an oratorical flourish and told me heW he-W S Charles Guitteau lawyer and politi ciau aa intimate friend of all prominent republicans in tho party and for me not to know him was to argue myself unknown un-known He got so abusive that I finally ordered him out pf my rooms I gave orders not to let him enter again Washington 25 Counsel for government govern-ment will ask the judge to charge the jury among other things that the law as to the defense of insanity on criminal trials is as follows When the prisoner at the time of committing the offense is in such a state of mind as to know the act is unlawful and morally wrong he is responsibio The law doesnt recognize recog-nize the form of insanity in which the capacity of distinguishing right from wrong exists without the power of choosing choos-ing between them that the species which is induced by passion unless simmered down into a state of total derangement will not excuse the commission of crime j to acquit on the ground of insanity it is not enough that there he doubt as to the prisoners sanityhis insanity must be I affirmatively established j to establish I the defense of insanity it must bechown that the prisoner at the time of commit ting the crime was so far deprived of reason as to destroy the consciousness of distinction between right and wrong in reference to the act charged Marshall Henry yesterday received + the following Tho Western Reserve deplores de-plores that the last attempt on the lifd of our friend Guitteau failed My comrade missed his calculation a little My effort comes next end it cant fail My object in writing is this We dont want to hurt anyone but the miserable assassin and dont want to hurt a hair of any one else jut Mr Edelin and others must not display dis-play so much zeal in future or they will get hurt I had great difficulty in keep ing my squad from shooting Edelin and he driver last Saturday as they were pursuing the comrade Had they shot him neither Edelin nor the driver nor any one of the crowd would have reached the jail alive A little less zeal on their part will be better for them Dont bother that drunken farmer He is not the man you want Our man is in here Your friend OLD FORTYSECOND OHIO AVENGER The grand jury indicted Jones for assault as-sault with intent to kill Guitteau London 24 The News says it is to be hoped that for the sake of American justice jus-tice and public decency and good taste the trial of Guitteau will come to an end soon It will probably be acknowledged in America as in England that Guitteau has been allowed to carry his own conduct con-duct of the case too far It seems absolutely abso-lutely necessary in the interest of decency and justice that Guitteau be prevented from turning tne tragedy into a hideous burlesque and from attempting to prove his own insanity by demeanor which badly simulates or travesties madness a |