| Show BY telegraph ajsa warm tt ulm AMERICAN washington 8 As soon as the criminal court opened this morning Guiteau shout ed As a crank in chicago says I 1 talked with him about this case I 1 dond dont know the inan and it is false faise col corkhill called as the first witness of the day mrs J M wilson of leadville col she she knew L W guiteau from her first recollections he was her uncle witness gave give a most affecting account of the life and character of her mother mrs mra maynard who as alleged by the defense had died in sane but who really died from pneumonia in 1876 her mother was not the deposition of mr turner was then read in which he said 1 I have heard her husband husbard say that she died Jn insane sane mrs wilson nilson the witness said mrs maynard was noted f r her blovely disposition and her christian character and her virtues are remembered and spoken of 10 to this day witness was her nurse nuree and constant attendant up to the hour of her death and never paw saw f aw faw the slightest indications of flightiness or insanity witness was questioned jn relation to the evidence of davis dor jor the defence davis testified that he was at one time in anu aou lik urh maynardd May Mayn ards narda room durin her last illness and she was very mighty flighty and incoherent and continually charged him davito daelto davis to look out for her husband and children for she feared they would go to the poor house louse the witness arg mrs wilson smiled incredulously while the I 1 question lu estion was being put and replied that she did not even remember the man davis D wa s witness was questioned in regard to it witness gel 1 I never heard of it scoville Bc oville objected to the reply and ii a lively discus ion ensued between judge porter and scoville Bc oville guiteau became enraged at judge porter borter and shouted now hold your thunder lii ill III you get to th the ejury jury judge you bre are doing this sort of thing too much judge porter without noticing vir kir he ou outbreak c continued in the most impressive manner to this point when guiteau broke in again im not a criminal and I 1 wont be till convicted and I 1 wont have that word you just hold your eloquence till you get at the jury scoville Scovil Je ex postulated but still be retorted in the mo most at vicious man ner shut up and mind your business JL J know what pm im doing witness was questioned in regard to various members oi 01 the family and stae positively that she never saw indications of insanity in any of them Sp eakim of the prisoners father ii W Guite gulte ati witness said uncle luther visited me fre and I 1 loved him with very tender affection and the tile whole family jamily were delighted with his lovely christian character and such a thought as that he might in in any degree be of unsound mind never entered my hea aea 1 i witness Vit ness nesa was subjected to a close and cr ical leal cross examination she IV asked if she entertained any prejudice against having hereditary insanity De anity alleged in this defense and ahe oabe phe re replied fled I 1 ob object act to any singular statement be being made ade upon that subject per t thapa ha for lor the sake of my children I 1 mi might ht dislike to have it set up for myself the facts can make no difference her evidence in chief remained unshaken and her beati mony produced a marked sensation at the conclusion of mrs wilona testimony monys moDys john W guiteau arose from bis seat next to the prisoner one raud rand and asked the court to rule out the question and answer relative to witness father having died of softening ening of the brain 1 1 I cannot see your hono bonor honoree rhe he continued guiteaux Guite Gulte aus occasion for dragging in people who have no bidou connection with the prisoner Jud judge geCox cox I 1 think the matter irrelevant Gulte guite guiteau ati mrs wilon wilson seems to be a very bright lady but she is opposed to having it appear that theres any insanity in the family thaes the matter with her testimony 11 I 1 scoville here arose trembling with excitement excitement and protested against mixing mixing john W guiteau in this case vase he is opposed to showing in sanity in the family sald said Scovil lebut ills his voice was lere here drowned frowned by the prisoner prisoner who struck his hand band violently t lyton pylon on the table and shout shouted edy eds sodo bodo so do 1 I he if e had better get leet back to boston he has got no business here just because he happens to be of the same name he thinks he will geta little notoriety out of this case care r I 1 known anything about the man for years all there la Is about him and I 1 want him to get right out of this case col Cork corkhill bill called geo C maynard maynird who verified ve rifled in several material points the testimony of the preceding witness the court was about to announce fhe the usual when john W guiteau Gul arose nrose ald nid aid ald said your honor I 1 greatly desire to make a personal explanation my father Is dead guiteau broke in interrupting him oh shut up and sit down you have been vindicated davidge objected to any more side scenes the prisoner had bad continually been allowed to interfere with t the fie proceedings edinga and at this rate the trial would bood become a farce judge cox I 1 see lee no 0 caslon caylon mr air Gul gui guiteau for any explanation on your part recess CHICAGO 5 A river biver falls minn special says mrs adolph a bohemian woma nhung herself in the pre presence of her five children yesterday morning her husband having gone to a neigh bors to work she he took some strips of cloth got on the stove tied the flips to the bare beams of the house above hers hery her and despite the most strenuous exertions of her oldest daughter aged 11 adjusted the rags about her neck stepped off the stove and strangled in a few minutes the husband was sent for but arrived too late mental depression was the coroners coroners verdict PR Misso missouri 8 TWO brothers hiram and valentine mercer in resisting arrest in decatur co county un t y iowa last november killed the deputy sheriff and fled to a farm of their brothers near here the officers laid for them and surrounding them while they were out hunting a fight ensued in which both outlaws were killed washington 8 after recess the prosecution wished to introduce a letter written to witness by the assassin but scoville objected judge cox overruled the objection and coville ri excepted to all evidence of this kind the letter was dated house june esth and asked for the prisoners book truth of which lie he was getting out a revised edition witness s in all his experience with guiteau never thought him insane guiteau expected that hia this witness was a methodist minister to whom he owed money and that therefore the he like him gul gui witness then gave the substance of conversations he had in boston with J W guiteau in which the latte latter rhad had said the disgrace of this crime was enough for the family to bear without endeavoring to prove hereditary insanity for there is no authenticated case casie on which to base it guiteau Gul gui greatly excited ou out t the way he feels and I 1 desire to repudiate him in this busi bus ness he has never been a brother to me in any sense and that is just the ridiculous view he takes on this insanity business A moment after he shouted angrily false there are two of my day cousins in the lunatic asylum now and where ill ull probably be very soon john palmer palmier of saratoga springs testified that guiteau boarded a week with him and had run away without paying his board guiteau well I 1 might have confessed that and saved the government the district attorney here sent judge cox a communication received by him from the president of the united states the judge after reading it sent it to scoville with the remark that the paper contained the presidents answers to his villes interrogatories prisoner I 1 had sent the president a note thiu thia afternoon requesting him not to appear in this case andray and say aay ing I 1 did no not twant want his answer to the interrogatories scoville then read the answer answers of president arthur to the interrogatories the president said he knew the prisoner and that that he has seen him at least ten times and possibly twenty times to the question as to whether he had ever conversed with him he replied no save to return the ordinary salutation of the day dayi and once or twice in answer to his request that he be employed in the campaign as a speaker by the republican state committee coli coil cittee of which I 1 was chairman to the question of what po lotical servIce pervice 4 the prisoner had rendered the republican party during the last presidential campaign the answer was not that I 1 know of the next question was whether there was anything in the prisoners relations to himself or general grant or senator con Can conkling kling or any other of the republican party especially connecting him with for supposing he would receive any political preferences the answer was no prisoner that thaes a matter of ion the last question was did you ever give him any reason to think he could have any political or personal lu influence fluence with you the answer is egl 1 I never did jid 11 prisoner he never had occasion to the president adds to his answer the following 1 I have bien requested by counsel for defense to I 1 reduce a letter written by the prisoner since his indictment thai that letter was received by mein me in october last and was not preserved I 1 do not recollect its ita contents particularly except that it contained some claim of his hid having rend rendered ered some important services to the republican party during the presidential campaign and appealed for a postponement of his trial to give him time to prepare for the defense PrIs prisoner voner that is all there was waa to it the next witness was rev bev A B R mcarthur TeArthur Is pastor of the chii calvary ry baptist church new york As soon as he be was sworn the prisoner remarked I 1 know dr mcarthur very well weli he is a nice fellow very high toned in every way I 1 owe him 95 witness then wen began to tell how guiteau got gut his sympathies when scoville oville dc objected as the matter was irrelevant guiteau broke in with it 1 is all interesting te an ana 1 important dr sic vic mcarthur is a very fine gentleman I 1 owe him 95 and I 1 am sorry I 1 can not pay him now then addressing the witness he said allow me to bay aay doctor there Is some possibility of my getting from james gordon bennett forthal for thau that merald herald disability matter and I 1 propose to send you a check for 1200 the moment I 1 get it frank bartlett of chicago and mrs florence bartlett his wife testified to having seen guiteau and having always considered him sane they told several instances of his peculiar disposition but all tended to show III his sanity guiteau was very indignant that corkhill should waste government money by bringing such witnesses here howard dunham of boston took the stand but guiteau forestalled his evidence by shouting I 1 had a desk in a room with that man a few weeks in boston and thata all he knows about it it has cost government to get him here els bis evidence merely showed guiteau to be a dead beat gen sherman and the executive committee of the garfield memorial hospital project have received most encouraging reports from abroad of the interest taken everywhere in the enterprise committees are formed in many of the principal cities of europe and even in cairo egypt to collect money as a test testimonial of love and respect for the late president assistant postmaster general hatton has issued a cir eulav cular letter to all postmasters commending to their attention the theo 0 eject sought and inviting unofficially their co operation cooperation in their respective localities gen sherman and trea surer gilfillan have addressed letters on the sui sul jeet to many prominent men through ut the country and geri gerl generous erous responses are being daily received in the meantime senator windom ha has prepared a bill bin to provide a special charter for the proposed hospital and thus make it a national organization the lady of the white house will be mrs john davis r of ex senator and future secretary of state freila freling huysen and wife of president arthurs private secretary sheia Shela she is regarded as a very ac comi comy woman and well qualified for her new now duties secretary blaine to day said he would retire from the state department next wednesday by which date the senate will be ready to confirm washington 9 the criminal 4 court opened promptly at 10 this morning dr mcarthur again took the stand guiteau shouted outpour your four honor scoville keep still please guiteau well then you state it at once if you dont I 1 will scoville then the C court ourt and objected to the character of the evidence which was given by the witness on the ground that evidence as to any other crimes could not be introduced when the prisoner is on trial for this particular offense he desired all such evidence stricken out guiteau here hero broke in excitedly and shouted out it is purely in the nature of a confessional mcarthur is not an expert or a lawyer and I 1 object to him telling the jury and the american people facts which I 1 told him years agu ago in regard to my history the court ruled that the evidence could be admitted aa as tending to show the general character cf if the prisoner I 1 Cork bill did you ever see anything in the prisoner to indicate insanity answer no sir air I 1 never did guiteau here broke in with one of his noisy nolby harangues and despite the caution of the court and eions of counsel proceeded to express his life opinion of dr mcarthur in terms not delicate turning to the reporters table he declaimed for some minutes against t tte tie te rean scan dalous ais reports of his character and ng out the reporter of the republican shook his fist at him threateningly the witness continued relating how guiteau and wife were received into his church and the latter got from him leaving a promis ory note he then went into politics and neglected the church he wanted a mission to chill he was rt rut into jail for cheating a hotel in the meantime it carne came to the knowledge of the officers of the church that he be had ben hi en guilty of gross immorality guiteau to witness that was the time I 1 committed adultery so I 1 might get a divorce that was all there was in it I 1 was not goine going to live all my life with a woman I 1 did not like I 1 did not want to marry her at all 31 3 1 ignoring the interruptions flon fion and about the of april 1875 he be wat wa t summoned to appear before the advisory committee to answer the charge of gross immorality there were three counts to the charge first he took money which his wife wire earned by working at a hotel in the country which was remitted him for his support prisoner interrupting thais absolutely false doctor I 1 never heard that before witness still ignoring interruption t and ad spent it in improper relations with other women prisoner with excitement that is false if my wife told you that she told you a lie witness continued his narrative the second count was in being guilty of frequent acts of violation of his mar marriage riago vows prisoner again breaking in I 1 only married that woman on 10 hours notice and reason enough why I 1 could not live with her scoville cross examined the witness and guiteau became very angry and much excited at some of his re plies the testimony in chief was not shaken W S caldwell physician treated L W guiteau during his last liness but never detected any evidence of mental unsoundness unsound ness nesa geo W plummer was balled called when gul gui guiteau immediately shouted I 1 owe this man twenty dollars but it has cost the government zoo JOO to get him here 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