, 1865-01-30
FROM CINCINNATI.
The Chicago Conspiracy Case
Testimony Of Maurice Lanshorn,
William T. Comstocz, and
Tcung Walsh.
From Our Own Correspondcnt.1

From Our Own Correspondcnt1
CINCINNATI. January Is, 1s65.
The court assembled this morning in th'
rotunda Of the Court House. pursuant to ad
journmcnt. All the members Of the Commia
sion we're present; also the Judge Advocates
the prisoners. and th-ir counsel.
The records Of the previoua session Of th,
court was read py Mr.. Recorder Pittman, ant
approved.
Mr.. Langhorn Was then swo.n rs q witness
for the Government,
TER EVIDENCE.
Ny neme is Maurice Langhorn. On the 3eth o
within the Confcdcracy, to come within liz Fed
era1 lines. / arrived in Boy d and Gfeenup county
kentucky, and then came on to Cincinnati. have
seen see G1entell, also CO.. anderson Walsh and sl
Confederate Statea, and next at Niagnra Falls on
the Canada side. lhave also seen COL Anderson
within the Canadian border. saw him once IN
August, just before the Chicago Democratic Con.
railroad, crossing over to Port Huron from Port
s4e sad .saa hsa Pessesss to and pe
fntensng ,ssia tsfe The a ca!s to
next station heyona Detroit Col. Grenfen got on
formerly Confederate soldter), and Dr. Z. n
Smith formerly Assistant Surgeon in the 9Th Con-
ergo on the Sunday before the opening session Of
the Convention, ard went to the Richmond House.
eaw Col. Grenfell several times after We reached
gwen us in Canada slips Of paper with fo3r num-
teEs written on tllcm and tbs name Little =
The numbers were the nnmb"ts Of rooms In the
lc the 9amc Of The proprietor. We were to show
these slips 10 the proprietor Of the house, who
would direct na hey f. aet; We dll 30, and be
numbers On the paper: In tic room there aere
eight OF nine men sitting. and standing. We only
stopped here = short time, when were shown
four beds, and also four beds IN IN adjoining
room, all Of which were. occupied as double
beds as long as stopped there. In 1863 there
was also : cot. In which . ninth man
enterprise a. myself while IL lie room two men,
one Of whom was named 1rumbull and had been
Confederate soldier. told us that they were max
l Volunteered to 60, and was to shew the Others
who we're already at work how to mike cartridges
properly, y bad been at the Arsenal at Bston
room ii The time. / then went to Walsh's house
with Trumbnll and another escaped prisoner,
yboee name did rot know, butwho Was wounded
in the cheek By bullet, where wis told the ess.
HidgemAk1nE was cong On. The house ia be-
yond Gimp buuglhs. We got to Walsh's house
abuut halfpast nine or ten O'Clock at night. He
vas not In at the time, hut We wesa shown into
daughters, and an escaped Confederate prisoner,
nH,ncd Leslie. After about half an hours conSer-
cation. We went into bedroom adjoinlas. for me
to show the men how to conduct the uanuiacrnre.
In this bed.ruom there we're about $50
c1umsily made cartridges on dish. They were
not well made There were SOME implements tor
their manufacture in the room, but these cartr}de-
e. rew had been roughly made by the aid Of 4
clothes peE. did not commence operations that
hight as @ tho tools we're not in At condition to
doub1e-barrclled guns which were in tic room.
Some Of them wonsd fit, hut others would not. 1
think theTs werc etgn. Guns II the room, also two
kegs Of powder and five Or six bags Of buctshot.
remained in the house until little after twelve
O'clock About hAat.past eleven Ar. Walsh cane
asain talking abont ths expedition for which /
came to Chicago. Mr. Walsh told me that he was
very busy. being engaged awny from home from
The Incn he spoke OF were men then IN the city
We conyereed together for half or three quarters
of an hour. He said he bad one taonsand Of
ed to effect the release Of the prisoners It Camt
Douglas. He said that many he had erpecaed had
not arTired, and he seemed somewhat dlshearten
g. a. be eon.ideEed dhe sae 9uWbsE Of men tnsam 20
counted urun.
Colonel Jackson-Did you hear OF any othe
rlaeu N Chicago where they were making car
Hhe<s.-one of tAe men who came with M
nom the Richmond House tnla-
Mr., Asny ohtected to the witness tesdfyfOr a
to what be had been told by other parties.
Colonel Jackson considered the objection
an unsound one. The men who accompanied
the witness from the Richmond House to th,
dwelling house Of Walsh were couspintors
and the act o. declaration of one WIS the nc
Or declaration Of all.
H7taess eonttnu>d-Trumhull told me they wet
In In
bnt Do moi remember that be mentioned thc i
caton Of my but walsh's house: l saw gsente
duke thcrc. but Grenfell told me- '''
Judge Brodhcad objected. There vas n
proof that Masnnduke had anything to d
with the conspiracy, and it was therefor
highly improper to accept any evidence rois1
1g 20 the f members ar u Il fhe n
| CT the law, but than the conspiracy mus
| first be established.
| Col. jackson replied that all irrera1a.itie
| and difficulties which the accused experienc
/ arise from their very connection with the cor
| sEfracy. He urged that from the testinon
Of the witness shanks. Marmaduke had bee
| proven to be not only one Of tue plotteEa bu
| one of the rlnglcaders. The evidence ther.
fore he was addrcing, WAS perfectly concom
| mitant 10 the case.
| After consultation the court oyeruled Ii
| objection Of Nr. Asay.
AIaj. Burnett understood that some witne
ses for the defense were in court. If that ut
the case be must Iequeft them to withdraw
One or two ladies who had been seated
| the vicinity. Of some Of the accused then r
tired from the room.
Witness CONTINUED In Feply to qusstions Of G.
Jaekton, Assoeiats Judge Adeocate-Gsenfell to
nc that MErmaduke was In the city, though I 4
not remember seeing him. The way Cot. Gre
fell told me was this: On learning that aome
MorEan,s men had arrived, the boys from can.t
their determination OF returning. while tryiu
| to keep them together, Grcnlell said he did n
know What to DO, as neither Marmadake nor Car
Hines had told him what was the next thing
the programme, and that he INST 60 aud cousr
with them. He went, and after a short absen
returned and told me th4t Marmaduse had pack
again to look srter Hines, aud before he 1ef
made him promise me to tell me Whist was ne
on the programme a. soon as be learned T. Ne
there va. nothing left to do but to drill the Co
perheads In Indiana and Illinois. Hines wal
| C1ptain In the Confederate service. l knt
na9e kno1H u19sl nan ns na%ea came CAPT.
tleman. When We went to Chicago, he acted
| quarfermseter to the expedition4 and expeud
| the money. Captain CantEili va an officer
knew that he eame on to Chicago. During L
Convention, In the room where the cartridge Il
king yas going on, forty-ase Or afty persons c.
first heard Of the existence Of these conspirsci
In Richmond, Virginia, but did not hear Of t
particular enterprise TO Chicago until three
VIC were not told where We were going, but iii
PR informed that an enterprise was on foot viii
should be supported BY every Southern man.
how man named Jacob Thompson; saw hl
terror under Buchsnau's administration, and whs
| ! knew him in ca1ata WIS . secret agent OF Il
Confederate Government He told me he was Ct
powered to furnish means to carry on these co
Eptracies. snd that he had given Captain Hin
$4,000 to cover the expenses OF the Chicat
anair: When ia Chicago they talked
posed to 60 70 the southern part Of Illinois
1ndinna. did not sec them aher that time.
know man namcd Lewis SCHULTZ, Or Shoots. I
was one Of Morgan men, and aus one who we
to chicago from Canada. i saw him in chfca:
On the 15th Of November 1aaL BE told me til
DR.. Hunter and all the boys were there. and We
Going to re1eaEe :he p5isoners at Camp Donysl y
H.net. / nsked what he was doing, when he I
piled oe sbore, and asked me what I was doln
faying that bad better Join them. 1refasee
the Government, and WIS loyal man. / saw bill
uake q. involuntary movcne1t to bis pistols, 81
accordingly got rid Of him az coon as posaibl
after seeing him mike motion for his plsto
that had better NOT SO where there might |
o esn Pei Go s%es1
a. be walked e The end q he car where 8eii .
/ / were Sitting, 61td to him. Eolone
with those clothes on you'll e
arrested before yo1 arc In Chicago five honrs. !
replied, s.No Shall not. / do not belong to Il
Confeceracy now, I have got my British paper
Thcae clothes are the Uniform OF an old Englis
battalion once belonged to. and have @uy de
thing shall say that am going huntine."
advised rs 10 separate and not recognize each OF
Of on the trpin. ~ before stated we let Toro
to by the Grand Trunk Railroad going BY way
on the Great Western We missed connection, VII
having to lie By dsy, We separated, some goil
one way, and my party travelling By way OF JAG
in winds or, C, W. and later in Chicago: When
Canada, be was talldng Of going to Mexico, b
don'l remember any particular conversation
nj arst to the Richmond House with nc, but in