Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-06-03
THE CONSPIRACY TRIALS.
CONCLUSION OF YESTERDAYS PRO.
..- - .... CEEDINGS. Il
Our report Of the Conspiracy trial conci uded
Yesterday with the testimony Of DR.. c. H.


Our report Of the conspiracy trial concluded
yesterday with the testimony Of DR.. G. H.
Nichols. -.se..
TESTIMONY OF MR.. DAWSON.
Is a clerk in the National Hotel. Witness
was shown letter AID asked If it was ever
received in the hotel He said it was found
among the initial letters; couple of days
oelore was mere noticed 1t, and the initials
struck me as rather peculiar do not know the
exact date when it was received.
BY Judge Advocate Bingham II opened it
w9ep you brought it to me- 1t was not opened
Mr; Pittman, at the request of the Court then
read.the following letter:
SOUTH BRANCH BRIpeE, Apfil 9th, 1866
fRIRND WILKES; ! received yours OF March
l2th, and reply as soon as pracsicasle. Isaw
French. Brady and sthers about oil specula.
tlon Ihe subscription 10 the stock amounts to
ali can stand now. Whsn you sink your
well 60 deep enough. Don't fail Everything
depends on you and your helpers, If you can't
strife through Thornton's Gap ana cross by
Capon, Romney and down the branch, and l
can keep you safe from all hardship for year
nal Purdy is beat. hired that girl to charge
him with an outrage, and reported him to old
Kelly, which sent him In the shade. He sus-
pes1s too ds damn much now Had he better be
if he don't get drunk you will get 1t On the 9th.
At all events, 1t can't be understood If lost. l
can't half write-I have been drunk for two
days Don't write so much hehfaIuttn next
time. No more, only Jake will be at Green's
with the funds. Burn this. Yours truly,
Sal Guthrie sends much love. Mailed a this
from Cumberland, Md, May Sth.
This letter, according to the postmark, vas
mailed May sth. although :. Is dated May
stopped at Your hotel, do these initials belong!
A. As far as remember I know nobody else to
my knowledge.
TESTIMONY OF Mr.. MOTT.
Was bookkeeper at the hotel at Surrattsvllle
from January till was arrested on the 10th OF
April; have never done anything against the
Governments; knows Mr. Edward Smith; do
not recollect having any conversation with
him on the 14th of April; do not recollect his
saying that it was supposed John H. Surratt
was one of the murderers; don't recollect tell
" ing him that Surratt was in New York at that
time; may or may not, but don't recollect it.
@. Did you say to him that John knows all
. about that murder, and that you could have
told him all about it and how it would have
occurred six months agol A. No, Sir. a. Did
you at that time tell him not TO mention the
conversation you had with him! a. No, sir
l don't think 1 could have said such q thing.
By Major General Hunter:-Were you at the
first battle of Bull Run9 Did you rel ioice at the
success Of the rebels! A. No, sir; I guess
did not.
/ have visited Ford's Theater since l was
last upon the stand; have examined the keepers
I. of the locks of the boxes Nos. and s: box No.
g hard been forced and the wood was split box
No was also forced, and you could pull the
screws in and out; in box No. the keeper is
forced aside; think it was not done by any
instrument, but by force applied to this outside
of the door
TESTIMONY OF MR. PLANT.
Mr. Plant, cabinet maker, also testified to
having examined the keepers of the locks Of
the private boxes at the theater, and gave it as
his opinion that both had been forced open; in
No. he said he could pull the screws out ana
push them in with his thumb in box No. 4,
directly under, the keeper is gone entirely.
TESTIMONY OF MR. SMITH,
A witness for the prosecution. Resides in
Prince Georges csnnty. about one mile from
Surratts vile; am acquainted with man
= named jenkins, a brother OF Mrs. Surratt;
knows two Of her brothers; knows the one
who has just testified in this case, J. L Jen-
kins; during the first year Of the war he was
looked npon as OF secession sympathies. Wit
ness knows Mr.. Mott. On the Saturday sue.
ceeding the murder / met the two young men
connected with Gen. Augur's Office, and one Of
them told me Surrat was supposed to be the
man who cut Mr.. Seward, and l asked Mr.
Mott If he could tell me where surratt was
He said ne sreckoned he was in New York
by that time" l asked him why that was, and
he said "My Ged, John Surratt knows all
about this. DO You suppose he is going to stay
in Washington and let them catch him : have
months ago" Then, said he, keep that to
yourself, for il you would mention it it wouid
ruin me. q. What was Motifs attitude to the
Government a. / have heard him speak
against the Government and denounce the Ad-
ministration In every manner and form, and
heard him say that If the South did not sue.
ceed he dfd not wants live another day.
In long cross.examinatien the witness
simply repeated his testimony in chief.
TESTIMONY OF MR.. RoBY.
Resides In Prince Georges county, three or
four hundred yards from Surrattsville; am ac-
Quainted with J. L. Jenkins; witness was ap-
pointed an enrolling officer on the 10 tn of lime
1868; never heard but one opinion as to the
loyalty of Jenkins, and that in 1861 he was
looked upon as a Union man, and after that
time as sympathiZer with the South; he has
talked against the Government. ..
The Court here adjourned till ten o'clock
this morning.