The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1865-06-17
The Conspiracy Trials.
Continuation Of the Evidence

Washington, y,ln, THE record Of the previou.
day wes read The Commission then vent into &C.
eret session, ana after short time, the door wore
re-opened. Aftsr considerable delay In cop,oque
Of the non-attcndknce of witnesses the testimony
proceeded AS folows
TLsTINoSYoF BLIZZARD EDWARD SKINNER tcoLoERpJ.
BY Mr.. Ewing live IN Charlie. county, Maryland,
and have been the slave OF Mr.. Ihomas, mother Of
Daniel J. Thomas, whom | have tnovn for thirty
years HE reputation AZ truth-teler !. lai, but |
could nol say that ] would not believe hum on his
oath when the var broke out he WIS not loyal
man since then ne hs. been chanseabe. By A.sis-
tAnt Judge Advocate BinghNn-l have not since the
commencement Of the present trial heard Nnv one
rpeak OF Thomas ~ man not to be believed on oath
did mo- hear any sent enan cay that be was not to
b. believed on oath IN Court Of Justice.
Nj. living then moved that the translation Of the
OF Morehssd CITY n c. he stricken IRON he record,
for the two-fold reason that II bore uIon iis face
evidence that It vac hct tious, and hst upon the
paine,t rules Of evidence 1t wholly inadni,,ab e.
innmueh AZ the letter was In cipher, and the hand
shown have been addressed TO, or teen in the poe
sessn OF anybodv connected with or CHARGED 10 have
been connected with the conspiracy The rule in re-
gard to deCiaationa in cases OF conspiracy that
they misht he admitted where Ihoy we're The decar-
aons Of Of the con plrators aud that when they
are the declarations Of conrpitator they must ar
COMPANY some act OF the conspiracy. The contents
Of the letter had not been shown TO be the decA .ton
Of any one Of the cOnspraofs nut was entirely un-
connected with the subject uhuer invt-tisz ion, and
were, Therefore iuadmi.Abe. The motion had not
that he wa not 10 the Court room when the letter
wss presented and not iniomed OF IL. presents
ton uuu 10 day.
The letter referred to has been published in the
eUSl
Assistant Judge Advocate bingham stated that Il
alleged, In tAe charge and specifications, that
this conspiracy entered into by the parties
named and By Others unknown. lie cited instances
In which the declaIhons Of parties no ~erc neither
indicted nor on tngl, we're admissible, As far a.
those declarations had bearing upon cases Of con-
gpirsny and the principle ell settod that let
Ter written and never delivered admissible Oh a
trial Of con,pTscy. The letter in question would not
probably Affect the aecused the bar but IL should
not be- excluded nom the Court on that account The
speaker oontended that sufficient ioundAt.o on hal
been laid " Justify the Introduction Of the
letter, a. II had been Hhown that Booth
plotted the Assassinaton Of the President with the
agents Of the rebellion In Canada who weieh he'd him
Out the price Of blood that fell 10 the lot Of one Of
the conspiators 70 go TO Washington TO strike muir
Serous blow in aid OF the rebellion that anOther Wa
ordered 70 30 TO Sewbep, y c. and that this infe
nal letter picked up In the vicinity Of NewbsTn,
.nd The fact that Il written by oo-conspirAtor
wm patent on its face. Had the letter been found in
Nc pockel OF Be0,h, who wosId cay thA, II w loL