Show TRIAL the Fri prisoner prides himself on a promise of the presidency his hi s responsibility is repeatedly re affirmed baw bev U to he the liers id i washington dec IlIce 30 atio at 10 guiteau was led into court bythe by alic baili fl As lio ho passed pa sed ho the table at which his counsel bat lie paused a moment and whispered to scoville if you will ill only keep quiet today to day I will laugh this raso case out of court As soon as ho lie readied reached the dock he lie shouted out some leading papers in america consider me tile lie the greatest fellow 10 11 they 11 bavo met net I for some time at 11 last night I received a telegram which I will read for the edification of the audience and american people ar chaij ahm jr euilean Gu ilean washington I all ml boston sympathizes with you you ought to be president signed A HOST OF pausing a moment lie branched off into a rambling harangue quoting scripture and comparing con g himself to the meek and wid lowly jesus us who used PI plain I in language tb though ug sometimes ome ae vere I have been accused of using too barsh language ho he added but I ta tako comy my pattern from the sa savior vior of mankind unkind I dball submit my name to the next 11 te publican convention I shall expect to be before it there are only two men in tho the country who want me hiie hung one is judge porter who expects to get from the goic government rement if I am ain convicted and the other Or corkhill khill who expects to get et bounced and who knows I am the t ie cause of it the counsel for the prosecution having entered dr kempster took tile stand and scoville Sc resu resumed nied his cross examination the witness witness did not believe in temporary t emp insanity ins in lie sense eliat persons Z could bo be insane and wholly recover from it in an hour the witness was asked if lie believed sickles was sane or insane when ho lie shot key kev and replied I think lie was sane e sir guiteau the jury did not agree aith with you sir they thought lie was insane upon the witness leaving leavin the th stand estand corkhill announced that he lie had but one more witness to introduce on the part of the government he ile would eart like ike to hear from scoville Sc as to how low ell time he lie might mig ht want to consume upon the sur rebuttal so that some idea might be had bad how much longer this long drawn out trial would continue scoville Scovil lc replied wo have some witnesses whose names have been arc presented anted since we closed our case and ind I shall ask the court to permit us to have them sworn and ind our reason will be upon the ground of newly dis covered evidence material to the case I shall only ask your honor to allow me m to ask a few questions of these witnesses relative to independent facts riot e known t to me ne corkhill we would like to know what yon it ex expect act to prove scoville I ile we ve have evidence t offer relative to tile state of the prisoners mind just before the shooting davidge da could you give us an idea how muc much ii time you will want upon rebuttal scoville several days probably all of next week davidge we must object your honor to reopening his case scoville insisted ho lie did not desire to delay the trial or consume the time of the tile court but the tile prosecution had consumed weeks with these expert witnesses meeting with them nightly and conferring with them in the preparation of this case and ho bo did not riot propose to bo ile cut short in the matter of time ho ile would renew however his proposition that the tile jury be allowed to separate parate Ee and go to their homes relying upon their honor lionor and find integrity guitrau said I agree with that too your honor they arc are high toned honorable men and I aint afraid to trust them anywhere the tile american americ an people dont want mo me hung anyhow and th the best eliest thin tiling this prosecution can call do is to dismiss the indictment and let us all go homo home judge porter turning towards the dock called the attention to the outbursts of the prisoner and intimated if they were to continue he lie must request the dock to bo be moved to a farther corner of the room where at least the prisoner could not disturb the jury I do n not nt t ask 11 ho he added for im immediate action your honor oh oil you dont mr judge I porter ter lc I wish judge porter would make his motions when ho he desires action upon them and not be continually making his little speeches to the jury scoville replied to corkhill cork hill and surprised everyone by making one of the tile best and most impressive speech es that have been heard in the courtroom since the opening of the trial in eu earnest irnest language lie vindicated tho tile conduct of tile defense and kind severely rebuked the course of the tile district attorney in his anse unseemly e I e efforts f to muzzle and drive the dm defense elen from the court soine manifestation of applause followed the conclusion sion of his speech but it was quickly checked by bv the court dr john P gray medical superintendent odthe of tho kew new york lunatic As asylum took the tile stand the witness had made the study of insanity his business since 1850 and in ili that time had bad treated or investigated twelve thousand cases of insanity he ile had never st seen sten en a single instance where the tile only indication of insanity was an all exhibition of immorality or wickedness he ile did not believe in what had been ean called moral insanity it was impossible to discover the mental ill unity ity so as to locate an in lip impairment of the moral nature that was not riot accompanied compa nied by an intellectual deterioration insanity in itself had no more tendency to excite tho tile crime than neuralgia or any other disease it puts nothing new into a mans nature iton it only y perverts i what I hat is already al ready there the witness at some length classified the various groups of insanity that had come coine under his observation and described the various phases and peculiarities e of each he ile did not believe belove elove any type type of insanity I exists outside of assy aesy fuma ams lit that lias has not its pho totsye in an ilece Ile cess ss |