Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-27
Trial Of The COnSpiratOrS
Full Particulars Of TO.Duy's Proceedings

The Court met this morning at ten O'Clock. all
the members present, the ofieial reporters and
counsel for the prisoners. few minutes before
! ten the prisoners were brought In and seated In
the same order as yesterday, the guard occupy
I ing a scat by the side Of each prisoner. The
court room was not so crowded during the morn
| lug session as on yesterday, though alargs num-
her Of persons, many Of them ladies, occupied
seats In the room. At ten clock the reading Of
! the proceediug % Of yesterday was commenced By
Nj D. T. Murphy, who finished At twelve clock,
when
oEoRoE ,. RDHoNDs
witness for the 0oyernmant, testified that he
! lived iu Burlington, Vt, and Is a counsellor at
! law as such, appeared for the Government In
/ the 81. Adams raid case. ThomPsou, sanders,
| Clay, CCaFy, and others were In attendance at
! the court. They assumed that they were the de-
fcudcrs " the raiders for the Confederate States.
| Saw Thompson once, Clay almost daily, during
| ii 0 drBt Of the trial Sanders was constantly In
! attendance. Cleafy was on the stand as wit
| ness In that case, aud testified that the raid was
made with the sanction of the Confederate Gov
ernment
! Witness was hero shown a paper, which he
said was copy Of the original, purgortlng
! to be commission to q Lieuttnant Young,
! signed by the rebel Secretary u War, directing
him to proceed to the British provinces and
| nortbwaFd not exceeding twenty, and report to
| Clay aud Thomp,on for instructions. Young
was On trial ~ one Of the st. Albans raiders, and
| produced this paper for his defence,
COT. ". H. NEyIEs,
A witnca - for the Government, having been called
aud sworn, testified that he was In the city on
tho l2ih Of April, aud stopped ht the KiTkvoOd
House. Witness recognized MLerodt a. man
ho saw at tho house tho l2th Of April he
asked witness II he know the Vice President, aud
was b. in. Witness told him the Vice Presilon
wa, at dinner Aucrodt looked In tho dining.
room. Witness did not know whether or ~: he
went In. witnoss pointed out the room to AtIe-
rodt which was ON the lcft.hRnd side. Witness
pointed ont tho Vice President to AJorodt, who
wa sitting At the dinuer table IL was between
I aud Ia tho afternoon that witness saw AtLg
f0dt Witness had no doubt about AtEerodt
being the Pcrsou whom he saw at tho hotol.
LEFTY wAsHIEGT0N,
| a witness for the defence, having been sworn.
testified that she lived with Dr. samuel Mudd !
had been living there since the Monday after
Christmas, whore she had becn living ever since [;
was a siaVc before that; had been at DR.. Mudd's
al the time since the Monday after Christmas
never had been AwRx. from the house until she
caIuc 10 Washington 1Sa witness. Witness did
~, know that Dr. Mudd was away from home,
urly thrHc times, since witness had been living
tLrr": the lr-t time he aud his wife wont TO Il
party az Mr.. GaTdneT'S; ho lcft after sundown to
q To Ihc party and returned sometime during the
nlGht, the next tilnc he went away to buy some
hIrsCs: 1t was since Christmas,
Witness could not r"Incmh"r the month DR.
Mudd bad only been away those three times; b"
went one day aud returned the next; he was
away Two nlghlN aud tue part OF nlkht thhN ne
was ut the party, Latter part VI March no went
t. Washington; the other night ho wCnt ~ Gels
: bUrn' his brother went with HIN 10 Geisboro' :
he lon home In the morning aud rsturned the
noNt days Witness did not know who was with
hun when h" came to wAshington.i Witness did
not r"m"mber Of any one coming back with him
from Washington. Witness only saw HeIold
, 7 " I0n he CAME to tho house She was standing
a, the kitchen window and saw lIerOld going In
, the direction II the swamp no Que was with
him. 'rhrc" or four minute after DR.. hudd came
ont n the house to the Kitchen R9ycT saw HnrOld
thcrc before; did not soc Booth at all, Twitncss
was hero shown n photograph Of Booth. Said
she never sAw any person like tho picture; did
not recognize It. when tho doctor went to Gels
b.ro' hc was away one night, and when he went
10 Washington he was away one night
examined Witness did not know wher'
Goisbrro' wRs did not know whore he went
only what his wife said tho third time he went
E Wa. about ono or two weeks after be went n
G,i,h1ro': whom he cane back from 'lSborO
raid he missed tho day ~ tho sale.
| jerry r. Mt'pD
, having hren sworn, testified he was acquainted
with the hand writing Of Dr. Samuel Mudd rec
EguiIcd the hand d-writipg Of the accused oa th'
h"lr! rcgister Of The PoGnsylyRnLA house 1t wa
under Is aptS o. rnsSay, .Sy Doc ~ T,t1ssI ne & alc
' II nf stopping at, Witness was acquainted viii
Druicl J. Thomas, witness for tire GnVernment
{ hi. reputation is bRd In the n"ghh0rh rod wit
nc.t did not think he could believe him under hit
IN y.
? Cro,s.cxamincd Ills rcputOtou, from per
=, s,nu arg aaiHtnnce aud knowledge OF witness
was bad. Hh mnut1lLon Rs spgben Of by bis
r nrigl,DUrs was Ild Witness had heard seycra
unru speak oi his reputation for truth though
he hnd heard ten. Witness had heard DR. Geo
nudd sNeRk about hm two years ago, At th'
TIM CuDncl Birney was stationed at Benedict
II grew ont uf T'umas AAyinga man arrested
IN George Mudd was strong Onion man. Wit
? rcss' father wRs first cousin tr DR.. Mndd's father
Witness had served On the jurlcs In th" counties
D wh"rr he lived did not T'cOlleet Of ThomR
( IN, ing been q witness In court Mr.. ThUma
hus been very active In supporting the Gov ern
m"Ht, Many OF the persons In Charles cOunt!
were rcputcd dlsl0yaL
+ Witness had heard from Daniel Thomas tha
he was detective, bnt did not know u to be
. fact: he claimed TO be acting undsT Col Holland
, BnNSETT ,. GwrEH
10. tlded that no was not about DR.. Mudd . hOus
| .h-l summer In company with Capt. white, LienI
, i',rry and others; witness had not bncn N DR.
VI rdd - place sIuce NoyCmbsr 1881 Gu 1891 Ia
w.,- with his brother Andrew J. Gwynn. n
Jerry Dy"T's; Gen. S.rklcs then came In Mary
X laud ald witness went down TO Charles count!
u avoid arrest.
The Jrigr Advocate objected TO any more o
this statement Us 1t had nothing to do with th,
case.
, Mr.. Ewing said the Judge Advocate had intro
dUC,d Ic,IiInuny 10 show that Mudd was con
',nuliuc men IN tho robot service. Ho said tht
dCfrucr expected to show that the s"ryants wer,
r IL stuken ~ 10 the year, and the men who Dr.
Mldd sccrcled were not IN tho rebol service bu
mru " no were hiding TO avoid arrest
Judge Advocate Bingham said that this teSti,
mnny which was AS far barl As 1861 had nothing
10 10 with this ease. There was no charge
, In lsfl against MUdd
Tho Court sustained the objection Of the Judge
Advocate
, RI" commission, at ono o'clock took recrs,
. until two,
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