The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

TRIAL OF SURRATT.

The Surratt trial was resumed on Wednesday, 31 Juno.
Charles 11. M. Wood, a coloured barber, was sworn, and
testified that ho had seen the prisoner before. "On the
morning of the assassination I saw him at Booker and
Stowart's barber shop. Surratt canto to the shop with
Booth, M'Laughlin, and another gentleman. They talked
about coming from Baltimore. I trimmed Booth's hair
that morning, and while I was waiting on Mr. Booth, Sur-
rutt was in the rear of me, and a small thick-set man,
whose name I did not know, was sitting near the glass.
When I was done waiting
on Booth he got out of
the chair and went to the back part of
hex
shop,
where McLaughlin was, standing at the glasand
disguising himself with false hair. Surratt had by this
time taken the chair vacated by Booth, and told me to clean
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scar on Booth's neck, and said that it was caused by a gun-
shot wound. I shaved Surratt clean that morning, all but
his moustache. This was About 9 o'clock a.m., for I had
had my breakfast and had been up to Mr. Seward and
shaved him. The cross-oxamination developed nothing
now.
Charles Russell, of Boston, and a member of the third
Massachusetts cavalry, testified to having soon a man on
horsback on the road to Fort Bunker Hill the next morn-
ing after the assassination, whom he thinks resembled
Surratt.
Frank M. Heaton was sworn and said—On the night of
the assassination I was standing in front of tho theatre
when the President's carriage drew up. When the car-
riage came up half a dozen persons from the restaurant
came out, and I recognise the prisoner as ono of the men.
Theodore Benjamin Rhodos sworn— I was in the theatre
on the day Mr. Lincoln was assassinated. I wont in about
half an hour beforo noon to look at the theatre, and saw
ono of the boxes open, and wishing to see the stage from
that point went down there. The person who was in the
box walked away, and after a time came up again and
spoke to me, saying that he was connected with the
theatre. Ho had a piece of wood in his hand, about eight
feet long and two inches wide, and remarked that the Pre-
sident would bo there that night, and ho was going to fix
the box so that the President could not be disturbed. 110
then placed the stick, which was of oak or pine, against
the door, and in the niche in the wall, and adjusted it,
asking me if I thought it would hold. I heard some one
hammering behind tho stage curtain, and this mat iintno
diately went away, and a short thick-sot man came in.
Subsequently ;mother party came, and they proceeded to
fix up the box. The prisoner went out before these parties
rime to the stage.
On the cross-examination the witness distinctly recog-
nised Surratt as the man with whom ho the
t con
ofver-
sation in the box, and said that ho
had no doub his
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whoseuls, two
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identity.
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In
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Mexico. There are 15 British consular offices in the United
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