, 1865-02-03
FROM CINC1NNATI.
The E1lIcn&o Conspiracy Tf1al8-fes-
1erdnyss Proceedings.


Especial Dispatch to the Ch1c,so Tribune.l
C1Sc1SSAE1, Thursday, Feb. :, 1855.
The Military Commission, IN thi. city, Assem-.
bled this morning In the rotunda Of the Court
House, pursuant to adjournment
The first witness placed upon the stand WIS 1t
Col. Lewis C. Skinner, Sth Veteran Reserve Corps.
lie testified substantially as follows:
II. COL. sK1NHEn's TEs11aovr-
On the morning Of the 7th Of November arrived
at the house Of Str. Walsh. Walsh was present.
I{a son, and the prisoners CantEill and Travis,
md another whoee name understood 10 be
fore, Col Sweet was III the city, leaving me, as Sc
uior officer, In command Ct the camp.
About eleven o'clock at night he sent dispatch
10 me to detail some reA for special work, aud
about an hour afterwards be came to me and asked
ii In. " where Charles Walsh uyed. l said I
knew The name, bat did not know where tho house
called, % Johpson'-e1plaiaed sou to nc The location of
troops forward, myself and the officer Of the day
We tirer surrounded two houses By mistake,
houses: We Surrounded Wal:h's house and Capt
swercd by voice nssing that we would watt few
minutes nntll the inmates had dressed, Ii WIS the
voice Of female. Alter deley Of ten minutes
me to wait until he had light. ordered him to
Slih u. The door WIS sn,, then L., opened s
i5g a about ISL Six icst Sehind his s. ist6e!
md there were two or three ladies' on the stairs;
arrested the two Walshs. and sent tbem to camp
with guard. Afterwards heard ssramblipg
were on the top Of tho house. They xero Trayls
End Quant1il. also sent them to camp, and after
terwards arrested another man. 4-
We then searched the house. ln closet IN
the sitting-room there were lot OF bullet moulds
and cartridges. Up STAIRS in another bedroom
We also found lot Of doubled bar1ele1 guns ani1
zone more sa5fces fee There wa5 o 19 to i
alike, except ave, four Of which were much longer
rhsa camsd as s:,a b yG55ns t5e;e wssh sls from
were from 1,s00 to 1900 rounds or cartridges.
From k3t sa all ths S %Seapoqs ,S WeIe +hs4 ,ha
WINS light upstairs bnt none IN the hall down
etafrs. When Cantrill und Travis came down
from the roof OF the house they were ony partial.
rest Of 1helr clothes from a bedroom where
the double harrel1cd guns were found. The bed
IN that room had been occupied. Twas tola BY
in tie house but WIS not totd the b64fsy where
to ind them. When Col. Sweet introduced Lang
horn to me By the name Of john.on, be Ease ne
11it Alter the arrests searched walsh's barn aud
found in 1t two boxes Of double b1rrclc1 shot gun,
partly filed with powder, and 100 to SD roughly
made cartridges. The powder in these cartridges
Was the same that in the kegs, md the buckshot
In them wns Of the same kind as the shot in the
bses. There were from Esq to go bnllet moulds,
316 to 3u boxes Of percussion caps, each box con
tainlns ITO to go caps. and go to go revolver
w1cnches. There was also some powder
and three boxes OF car1idges. The location o.
the barn was indicated to me by Walsh's son. !
made other searches In tho city, but not success
fully. Walsh's house is about quarter OF a ni'e
fro d Camp Douglas. l do not know bow many
houses there arc betwcen the Camp and the house
When made the arrest I Was accompanied BY
Capt Philpatoe, Maj. Cornelius and Lieut. Nc
Dowel. Al that ume the effective strength
Of he guard at Camp Doag,a;; gn;.ons,s W..
confined was from 1000 to 9,bo0. We had TN arse
nal in camp bat did not know how many armt
were in It, The camp IL surrounded by fence
thirteen feet high and one inch thick The postf
in the fence SIX feet apart on one side OF tht
camp and eight feet high. The boards are .1ailed
ION the tnalde. The eenttnels walked on para
pet On top OF the fence. There were thirty senu
| ne1s on duty at tine: The distance around tht
bafricade was thIe<-guartcTs OF q mile. The aver
age bxats were one hundred ind nineteen feet.
The prisoner Travis never gave me any ezplan
| alton az to his false name. When askeu him
Charles Tra{1s WAS all his name, ne said tnat-
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