The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-05-19
THE CONSPIRACY.
Continuation of the Trial,
More New Facts Developed.
New Conspiracy Developments-Tele
graphic Dispatch Identified.
Press Dispatch

II
| graphic Dispatch Identified.
Press Dispatch.l
| WASHINGTON, May 19.-A. Reeve, tel
egraph operator residence i'll Brooklyn,
Long Island, identified Il dispatch hand
ed him by Booth at the st. Nicholas ho-
tel, and sent to Lewis j Weichman on
the 23d of March. 1t simply read Tell
John to telegraph number and street at
once.'' The witness then delivered the
message to John Surratt, who, in re-
sponse to Weichman's question what it
was about, said: Don't be so damned
| inuuisitive." Witness boarded at Mrs.
Surratt's house, in Washington, after the
4th of March. He could not fix the time.
| He said Booth, John Surratt and Mr..
| OFT, with several others who had been
riding out, returned very much excited.
He noticed that some of them were arm
ed. Surratt said his prospects were bad
and was in an extremely bad humor.-
| The witness also testified that on the
morning after the assassination he
thought it his duty to surrender himself
| to the Government to assist in the dis
covery and arrest of the guilty parties
| He mentioned woman coming to Mrs
Surratts, whom the latter said was Il
French woman and blockade runner,
and who was not afraid of consequences,
because she could invoke the protection
of the French minister
On cross examination, questions were
asked witness as to the man named Lieu
tenant Morie, in 1868, with apparent OBJ
ect of showing that witness was aware
of Lieutenant MOrie's intention of get
ting south, and if there was no other by
e,.listing in Federal regiment and desert
ing, and that witness was sympatlllzer
with the rebels and assisted his men 10
get south.
The prosecution objected to the teSti-
mony as immaterial, but allowed few
questions, to which witness answered
that 1t Morie enlisted in Delaware reg
iment, was captured and lodged in Cas-
tie Thunder. Witness denied having,
while clerk in the War Department,
agreed to communicate to any prisoners
at the bar any information he might OBJ
tain from that department.
Being asked about his acquaintance
with man named Aug. Howell, he said
he had seen him but never had cOnver-
sation with him. On the contrary he
had said to Captain Gleason, of the War
Department.: There is blockade run
ner at our house Shall give him np!'
I agitated the question thee days, but |
thought it might be the only time. The
man might be there and let him go. |
told him that l would like the South,
that I had been a student of Divinity
and would like to be in Richmond for
the purpose of continuing my studies.
/, when in the War Department.,
taught him a cipher which, however,
was for no particular purpose No ar
rangements were made for corresponding
with Richmond Howell was well ac-
Guainted with Mrs. Surratt. Howell
never told me it was the cipher used in
Richmond.
In answer to other questions, witness
said he would have been the last man i'll
the world to have suspected John Sur
ratt, his schoolmate companion, OF muir
der of the President My suspicious
were not of definite character. Imade
confident of Captain Gleason, told him
Booth was a secret sympathizer, talked
over with him the certain snatches OF
conversation 1 had heard, and whether
the parties could be bearers of dispatches
or blockade runners.
Weichman also said he told Captain
Gleason at the War Department of sus-
piciOus circumstances in connection
with the movements ofMrs Surratt, and
asked him what they could mean ,wheth-
er theirs were blockade-running occu-
pations or not. He also spoke to Glea-
son of che talk ahoat about a contempla-
ted capture of the President by the
rebels, and Gleason secuted the idea as
impossible He had read in the papers
that such an attempt was likely to be
made.
Witness said with reference to the fact
of his having knowledge OF the presence
of blockade runners at the house of Mrs.
Surratt, and not giving the information
to the Government, that he debated the
point with himself for some time, and
thought finally, as she had been there
only one night, he would say nothing
about it.
Rev. Mr.. Ryder, of Chicago, testified:
| visited Richmond in the month OF
April, remaining from the 18th to the
2lst, and picked up in or near the State
House letter signed "W. Oldham"
dated January 1lth, 1865, and addressed
to President Davis. He calls the atten-
ton of the President to the fact that GER
tain difficulties in the plan presented to
destroy the enemy's vessels, cities, &c :,
to create terror at the North, had been
overcome.
The writer asks JEFF. to confer with
General Harris on the subject On this
is endorsed:
"The Secretary will confer with Gen
eral Harris and see what plan he has for
overcoming the difficulties heretofore en-
countered
[Signedl ): DAVIS
Messrs. John Potts and Nathan Rice,
of the War Department, testified that to
the best of their knowledge, the indorse-
ment was in the hand writing of JEFF.
Davis.
Other witnesses were examined.
Petition Of the Negroes Of North Caro-
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