The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-17
THE CONSPIRACY.
A Visit to Ford's Theatre.
Examination of Witnesses
Comciusion Of the Testimony Taken
on Monday.
Ipr.sa nisuat,.b

| a summary of the conclusion ol the tts
timOny taken on Monday:
The further examination of witness
lip. Early elicited nn ew Facts concern
ing the intimacy "f O'Langhlin will
Booth
Lieut.. Henderson testified that he saw
| OIaughlin in WashiAS Ston. April llth
and he told him he had an engagement
to see Booth that day.
Samuel Il. j. Strugg testified that
OLaughlin was intimate with Booth
saw them in conversation abnnt the Isl
of April There WAS a third party, and
when approached OEaughlin took me
aside and said Booth was busy with his
friend talking privately. In his cross
examination he said he might have ask
ed OLaughlin to take drink. to which
he answered in the way stated.
Another testified that he saw OLaugll-
| lin the night before the assassination
coming from the theatre. He was
standing on the stoop and asked me
| where the Secretary of War was. told
him while standing on the stoop.-
OLaughln remained there till request
ed him to go in with me-
DC. Reed testified that he saw John
II. Surratt in Washington the day OF the
assassination, bowed to him and passe Il
on. He noticed that he wore spurs at
the time:
Peter Flattervenal testified that Booth
came to his restaurant next to the thea
tire the night of the assassination about
10 o'clock, and drank glass of whiskey.
He then went away and forty minutes
afterwards he heard of the assassination.
I saw Harold the same night--he en-.
ouired for Booth 1t was between d and
Z o'clock.
Sergeant NJ. Dye testified that he was
sitting i'm front of Fords theatre at I.
NJ, on the 4th and saw an elegantly dress
ed man come ont of the theatre ana tax
to two rough looking persons. ne hear'
the well dressed one say: II thlhk he
will come out now" referring, he sup
nosed. TO the President. tle then went
into the saloon long enough to take
drink came out rs if he WIS becoming
intoxicated, whispered to the ronSheSt
looking man, and went INTO the passage
that leads from the stage to the street
returned and went up the street tehlai,i-
ed awhile and came down again lie
called the time, and again ion'ier tnall
before think it was ten minhteS al'c'
ten. He then started on posi- Walk up
the street. He then returned ana enter
ed the theatre This one the witness re-
cornized rs Booth from his photograph
He also said that if the prisoner (Sp: q
ler) had Il moustache he would take dm
for the rough looking man.
The livery stable Keeper tcsi'iieo "
the intimacy brtwceil4}ooth, Slffatb an"
atno-.ss.sz-it. stated that Snrratt' !"
April. had been TO Richn"n". ana COM
inr back got into difficulty. ana tii't ae-
tectives were after him.
JOS. II. Humphrey. livery stable keep
er. also testified to III intimacy between
Booth aud Surratt.
The testimony while the doors were
opened for the press. includes tliat Oh u
man who was in the rebel service anu
which went to show that as early as 800
Booth and others contemplated the as
sassiuation of President Lincoln and the
burning of Northern cities. lie Stateu
that meetings were held i'll Richmond oi
rebel officers, at which Booth was pres
emit and the assassination was freely
talked of in the streets OF Richmond
Other witnesses testified that thcy hal
seen Booth in consultation with Sa'i-
ders, Clay, Holcombe and Thompson III
Canada.
Major Henry X Rathbonc, who was IN
the Presidents box, and who made the
statement published shortly after the
occurrence, stated that he did not know
Booth nor could he recognize the assas-
sin in his photograph: :,
VIM. Withers, jr musician at Ford =
| theatre met the assassin undrf me staE"
and was forced aside by bis 5trikihS al
him with his knife He recognized III
tbe assassin j. Wilkes Booth, who rushed
past him in his escape from The theatre.
| The route he took to get ont oi the inca
fire was entirely nnobstrucied some,
times there are 50 many people There iiiat
one can't pass. but that night everything
seemed clear and quiet.
Joe Simmons, (colored, empioyed ~
| the theatre, testified that he SAW Booth
| an tle back part of the stage bel wcen -
| and Go'clock on the iith He saw HIM
| next when he Jumped from the boN on
| the staye. When he went out IN the
| afternoon he invited him ont to take IA
drink. Booth and Spangler were quite
knt;m,te Spangler used to attend Ia
| Booths horses when Booth was away
Spangler's position on the stage was on
| the ripht hand ~ You face the audience,
| 0nnosite the Presidents box. SPangiei
was on the stage attending to his blsi'
ness as usual that night, but don't re-
member seeing him during the act saw
him walking about looking at the per
formance during the first act. Never saw
him wear a mOnstache.
John Miles, (colored) an employee IN
Fords theatre, testified that Booth
brought horse from the stable to the
back door of the theatre aud called tol
Ned Spangler three times about nine oI
ten o'clock OH the night of the assassina
tion. After that he did not !see Booth
again till he heard his feet going out oI
the alley. About three o'clock in the
afternoon he saw Booth, Withheld Spang
ler and Mudd, come from the stable where
he kept his horse
i John Selveman, connected with Ford''
theatre. testified that he saw Booth come
mn to the back door of the theatre on 9
horse. Spangler was there and Bootl
said: "Help me all you can, won't your
and he replied: "Oh, yes" This wa
about an hour and a half before th'
President was shot. | saw Booth agalr
about half past ten, going out OF The
back door. Just after, / saw sprangle
on the stage. He had handkerchief IL
his hand and appeared to be wiping hi
oyas Twas i'm front of the theatre tina