Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-19
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.The ConspiraoH Casa.

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'WAsHIHoToN, May ia. Reeve, tel
egraph operator residing lin Brooklyn, Long
Island, identified despatch handed him
Eby Booth at the st. Nioholss hotel and sent
to Lewis ] Weichman on the 23d of March.
4t simply read, 'sTen John to telegraph
number and Street at once" The witness
then delivered the message 70 John SurFatt,
who IN response to " eichman's question,
what It Rasabout said,GlD on't be 90 damned
ing 1isitive." Witness boarded at Mrs.
Surfatts house In Washington after the 4ih
of March; could not fx the time. He said
Booth, John Surrstt and Mr.. OFT with
several otheFsnWho had 6ll been riding out
returned very much excited. He. noticed
iithat somepf themlW were armed. Surratt
said his prospects were bad aud was IN an
extremely III humor. The witness also
testified that on the morning after the ass
destination he thought It his duty to sur.
render hfmselfto the Government, to 6ssist
IN the discovery and arrest of the guilty
parties He mentioned . woman coming
10 Mrs. Surratt's whom the latter said was
9 French woman, blockade runner, and
was not afraid of the consequences, because
she Eeould IinVoke5 the protection Of the
French Minister.
On the croas examination questions were
ssked the witness as to the man named ST.
Mori6 1853. with thesapparent object of
showing that witness Was aware of ST.
Morie's Intention Of getting South, and if
there was no other way, by enlisting in q
Federal regiment aud desaEtiDg, and that
witness was sympsthi7er with the rebels
and assisted this man to get South. The
prosecution objected to the testimony as
immsterisl, but allowed few questions, to
which witness ansWered that ST. Morie en-.
listed in Delaware regiment, was esp.
tured and lodged in Castle Thunder. Wit
ness denied having while Clerk in the
War Department, agreed to communicate
to any prisoners at the bay, any informa-
tom he might obtain, from that Depart.
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Being asked about his, acquaintance
with man named Aug. Howell, he said
he had seen'him but never had any con.
Versation with him. On the contrary he
had said to Captain Gleason, Of the War
Department, that there Is q blockade run
nerR at our house. Shall 1 give him .np2
agitated the Question three days, but 1
thought it might be the only time the man
would be there, and I let him 60. told
him that would like the South, that had
been Q student of divinity and would like
to be in Richmond for the purpose Of con.
tinuing my studies. When in the Wsr
Department taught him cipher, which
he said however were of no particular
purpose. No arrangements were made for
corresponding with him at Richmond
Howell was well acquainted with Mrs. Sur.
raft. Howell never told me it was the ci-
pher used in Richmond.
10 answer TO other Questions Che witness
said he would have been the last man ia
the world to have suspected John Surratt,
my tschoolmate and companion, of the
murder of the President. MY sus.
picions we're aroused by frequent
private conversations by seeing Payne and
SHrratt with bowie knives, and by finding
in my room false moustache; mys1spf-
ctous were not of q definite character. I
made confident of Captain Gleason; told
him Booth was secret sympnthiser; talk.
ed over with him the certain Bnatches of.
conversation / had heard, and whether the
pRrties could be bearers of dispatches or
blockade runners; Weichman, also said he
told Captain Gleason at the War depart
ment of suspicious circumstances in con-
nection with the movements of Mrs. Sur.
ratt, and asked him what theycould mean.
whether they were blockade running occu.
pations or not. He also spoke to Gleason
of the talk afoat about 9 contemplated
capture Of the President by the rebels. and
Captain Gleason secuted the idea as im.
possible; he had read il the papeFs that
such an attempt was likely to be made;
witness saidgwith reference to the fact of
his having knowledge Of the presence of
blockade runnersar the house of Mrs. Sur.
rats, and not giving the information TO
the government that he debated the point
with himself for some time, and thought e.
nally as she Ind been thereonly one night
he would say nothing about it.
Owen Walker (colored )testtfied to living
at the Pennsylvania House. A. Beratt came
there on the 10Th Of April at about O'Clock
in the morning and left between and g.
o'clock the same morning. agfa
VIM. Clendim identified knife as the
one picked up on the corner Of J aud 9Th
ton, by colored woman. 7as's its 4
Rev. Mr.. Ryder, of Chicago, testified:
l visited Richmond in the month of April
Remaining from thesl3th to the 21st, and
picked mp, in or near the; Ststeho1se, q
letter sigued WIS Clubhouse, January i Ith
1865, to president Davis. he calls the at.
tention to the fsctss in regsrd to the con-,
tents, and says only, the competitions was
known, and thei latter states that by its
means every vessel leaving. foreign ports,
for the United States, or transport 6oats
that may be- destroyed, and this too by
agents aud with but little fear of DANGER.
The writer asks JEFF 20 confer With GEM
Harris on the subject. On this ID endorced
1.-THE Secretary will confer with General
Harris and see what plan he has for ovef3
coming the difficulties heretofore encoGnl
tered.Pr vsv Esss5r rsgq
(signed.) . = = x J. DAVIS.
Msssrs. John Potts and Nathan Slice of
the War Department, testified that to the
best Of their knowledge the Endorsement
FWss ID. the hand Writing Of JET Davis.
q QheE vita essea were examined. aggFs
INV Yonz. Nay ls@Ths Commerctaal,ss
Warrington special says: -,
Jos. T. Brady, one of the Commissioners
appointed to investigate into the reported
eoIEupfioR in New OrlGans has arrived here.