Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-05-30

Blackburn stated that his object vas to destro,
| the Federal army; that the clothes we're injected
with yellow fever. and that other persons we're
engsged with him 10 injecting the goods. amount
ing to millions Of dollars worth, With disease
aud smallpox; witness understood that the cloth
| ing in the valise which was sent 10 President
Lincoln vas Infected with both diseases; vheu
witness returned 10 Hamilton he met Clay and
Hslcomb, who congratulated him on his success.
aud he ,elegtaphed 10 Dr.. Blackburn, Who cane
down the next night and wheu witness told him
what he had done be said IL Was all right, as bag
No. had gone TO Washington, and he Was cure
IL would kill at sixty yards; Blackburn said that
Thompson would pay him. and be vent 10
Thompson. who stated that be would be paid
When they heard that the goods had been dc
livWed according to Instructions: witness showed
them . letter from Wall a Co. when rhoup
son gave him $50 on account
A question here arose IS 10 the relevancy Of
q question asked by the counsel for the defense.
After discussion between Mr. Ewing and Judge
Advocate Holt, the Court decided the question
admissible
Question. State whether you communicated to
the military authorities 10 Bryantown the fact
of any suspicious persons having been at the
house OF Dr. Mudd.
Answer. I did think to Lieutenant Dana,
Who Was the principal in command Of the mill
tary there at the time. ! think IL was on Mon
day morning stated to him that DR.. Mudd bad
informed me that two suspicious looking men
were at his house. that they came there little
before day break on Saturday morning, and that
one had a broken leg, which he bsndsged; that
they were lSboring under some degree of excite
ment-more 20 he thought than should have
been caused by broken leg: that they said they
came from Bryantown and we're inqu,ring the
L.. u. Al.
called for = razor aud shaved himself, thereby
altering bis appearance that Mudd provided q
crutch or crutches for the man with the broken
leg. and they went in the direction of Parson
Winners. | think that il all told the Lieu.
tenant The reputation OF ID. G. Thomas, one
Of the witness for the prosecution. for verscity
has been very bad since have known him.
In the cross ex animation. witness said he had
20 consider DIR. Mudd a sympathizer with rebels,
but never knew him to harbor rebels, or commit
any reasonable act; he. last year. took the oath
OF allegiance from me; so far as have known.
he has obeysd the provisions OF that oath.
TESTIMONY on COL. MARTIN BURKE
Colonel Martin Burke testified that he knew
Robert Cobb Kennedy, and identified the comics.
sion made by Kennedy in his presence day or
two before his execution The confession re
ferred to was read in court, stating his Ken
nedy's) object in pouring phosphorus on the floor
Of Baroum's Museum was not to burn il, know
ing from experience that il would not set the
boards on fire, but to perpetrate huge joke.
and that the object in attempting to burn the
hotels was to retsliate for the devastation perpe-
trated BIZ Gen Sheridan in the Shenandoah
Valley, to burn the aud child
rem but to show the people OF the North:
business at Washington; while he was out of
town last summer his book keeper received a
lot OF shirts and coats from a man named Harris,
who wanted them sold the next morning; the
goods we're sold as directed.
TESTIMONY or A BREAvER.
Mr.. A. Breaver testified that he was a clerk
Of Wall. and received the goods consigned by
Harris; they were packed in five trunks: the
shirts were said to be twelve dozen, but proved
10 be more; | advanced 800 on them. and sent
an account of the sale to Toronto at the request
of Harris, with the balance OF the money; the
clothing new. and packed promscuously in
trunks
TESTIMONY or II. b. CARTER.
IL. b. Carter testified he resided in New
Hampshire, and was in Montreal last autumn,
stopping at the 81 Lawrence; he saw George N.
Sanders, j. w. Booth, Beverly Tucker, DR..
Blackburn. and Others whose names he did not
recolIect; he saw Thompson at Niagara Falls, on
the 18th of JUICE; witness stopped at the 81
Lawrence Hall from the 18th OF September 10
the LIST of February; the persons named were
intimate, and had very little to do with those
who did not sympathize with them; witness saw
Booth before going to Canada; could not swear
to having seen any OF the prisoners there; do not
remember hearing John Surratt mentioned; saw
man named Payne every morning, but do not
see him here
Cross eIam mined DIR. Blackburn was there
about the Goth of October and was associated
with Booth and Others mentioned there were
two brothers by the name Of Payne who were
said to have come from Kentucky. and had been
in counterfeiting business; could not .say that Q
Clay had a room there: saw Payne on one occa-
sion come out of Sanders room; think Payne at
st Lawrence was an older man than the pris-
oner at the bar and bears very little resemblance
to him
TESTIMONY or Mn. MARTIN.
Mr. Martin was called 10 the stand and said he
knew DR.. Muid and the last two Witnesses; the
three were at his house on the 23d of April
TESTIMONY OF NR. MONTGOMERY.
Mr.. Montgomery testified that DR.. Mudd ar
ranged last winter for the witness to brine him
stove from Washington
The Court adjourned to o clock on Tuesday
morning.