Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-06-02
SECOND edition.
O'CLOCK p. N.
THE CONSPIRACY TRIALS.
Proceedings This Afternoon.

Proceedings This Afternoon.
The reading OF Wednesdays proceedings
were conciuded at five minutes past twelve.
TESTIMONY OF CHARLES BULGRR
(For the Accused.I .aE
Witness knows Ed Spsngler. He boarded
at same place as witness. Spangler continued
to board there after the assassination, until his
arrest
TESTIMONY OF JOHN GunrHRR.
(For the Accused
Witness is acquainted with the accused Ed
Spangler. Boarded at the same house with
him. Spanger boarded there OF and on for
six or even months. Witness saw Spangler
about the house for two or three days after the
assassination. Never knew him TO wear
BY Mr. Binxham:-Witness saw him there at
meal times.
TESTIMONY OF THOMAS j. RRYBoLD.
For the Accused.l
Witness has been in Washington December
one year; been employed at Ford's to take
chases for the use Of the house, and in the ab-
sence of the Messrs. Ford was in the box office.
During Mrs Bowers engagement in March,
Mr.. Merrick, of the National Hotel, asked to
have some seats reserved and he not coming
before the end OF the first act they were occu-
pied by others. Shortly after Mr. Merrick
came in with his party, and witness took them
to boxes Nos. and s presidents box and
found them locked, and witness kicked open
the door of box No. 8. This was on the eth of
March. These doors led into the box used by
the President on the Might OF the assassination.
Witness does not know il the box doors were
repaired after that. Witness never thought Of
the circumstance afterward, and did not report
the fact to Mr.. Clifford, the stage carpenter, to
whom q report OF such damage would be
properly made. These doors were usually
open, and it did not occur to him to report the
circumstance of the lock being off. The door
was locked at the time witness forced it in, and
witness after applying his shoulder to it with.
out effect kicked itin. Witness on several coca
sions after that entered the box without having
occasion to use Key. About two weeks prior
to the assassination Booth engaged box No
and afterwards changed it for box No. :. This
was the box with the hole bored In the door,
and is one Of the two boxes occupied By the
President Witness did not sell any box tickets
for the night of the nth of April, was not in
the box Office all the time, and does not know
If there were any applications for box seats
other than those for the Presidents party In.
formation that the President would be present
was received between 10 and II o'clock on the
day OF the assassination. Saw Booth that
this was before the Presidents messenger ar.
rived or not witness cannot say. Witness
placed the rocking chair IN the position it oc-
cupied ia the box on the night OF the assass,na-
ton, because in any other position the rockers
would be in the way. It was the same posi-.
zion in which witness placed the chair on other
occasions. Witness does not recollect seeing
Spangler on the morning after the assassina-
ton. Heard that Spangler was arrested at the
theater the morning after the assassination
Witness was here shown the rope found in
to that used to hang the flags ON at the Treas
ury Guards ball 1t is such rope as is used
behind the flies of theater for drawing up
borders. This piece Of rope has evidently been
used.
BY MIR. Bingham The proper place OF such
rope would be at the theater, and not in his
carpet bag. II was the inner or box door that
witness burst open, not the door to the CORR
dor. Box is next the stage. Witness sup
poses that he started off the keeper to the lock
in bursting the door in. Did not attempt to
force the door OF box :. Thinks there was no
lock on the corridor door. Witness was in the
box on the afternoon before the assassination
Did not see the mOrtice in the wall on that &C.
casion, nor on the next morning when witness
was there to look at the hole in the door Wit
ness judges from the color OF the rope found in
Spangler's carpet bag that it had been used.
BY Judge Holt:-You haven't much &C
quaintance with hemp. [Laughterl A. No
sir.
TESTIMONY OF HENRY z MERRIcK.
der the Accused.)
Witness is clerk at the National Hotel. He
took seats in the dress circle at Ford's theater
on one occasion, and on going to the theater
their seats being occupied he was put il the
bursted open by Mr.. Reybold as the box was
locked and the key could not be found. Wit
ness thinks the upper screws to the keeper
from the stage. John Mccullough left the
hotel on the 10th OF March, when he paid his
bill. illness does not know that Mr. McCul.
Tough was at the hotel after that period
BY Judge Blngham-It was the door of the
first box they came to that was bursted open;
the upper screw holding the keeper fell out,
and the keeper swung around on the lower
screw.
TESTIMONY OF JAMRS LAME.
For the Accused)
Witness was employed at Ferd's Theater rs
scene painter. Witness here examined the rope
found in Spapgler's carpet-bag, and stated
that he had seen ropes Of that description used
on the stage in suspending the borders. For
such ropes not less than eighty feet is used,
and these ropes are used for raising and low
ering the border. Witness thought the rope had
been used, but could not say that it had been
used for that purpose it was similar 10 ropes
used for the border. Forty or fifty OF such
ropes are used.
BY Judge Advocate Bingham Witness
knew Booth by sight, and never heard him
speak about the President.
BY Ny. Ewing:--Witness saw Spangler on
the day following the assassination at the thea.
ter several times
BY fudge Advocate Bingham-Spangler was
on the stage on Saturday about Il or O'Clock
when Maddox, Collins and witness were pres
ent; witness had not seen SpangIeT since