Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-05-17
SECOND EDITION.
sX O'CLOCK p. n.
THE CONSPIRACY.
Trial Continued.
New Evidence.
HEROLD'S AvoWALS.
HE BOASTS OF THE ASSASSINATION
OF THE PRESIDENT.

Upon the conclusion OF the reading or the
testimony, at half past 12 p. m.,-
Gen. Harris arose and said that as he had
objected to the Hon. Reverdy johnson appear
ing as counsel for reasons which he had
deemed well founded, he felt 1t to be his duty
to himself and to Mr.. johnson to ask that a
letter he held in his hand, written by Mr.. john
son, be made part Of the record Of the Court.
The Court suggested that the letter be read,
and thereupon MIR. Ben. Pitman proceeded to
read from printed copy the letter OF Reverdy
Johnson, under date OF Baltimore, Oct :, 1861,
in regard to the propriety Of taking the cath
under the new constitution.
President Hunter said the Commission had
decided to make the letter part Of the record.
WILLIAM WILLIAMS was the first witness
sworn:-After the assassination witness was
engaged in the pursuit OF the assassins, and
went to the residence OF DR.. Mudd This was
on Tuesday, the 18th. DR.. Mudd was not at
home. Mrs. Mudd said she would send for
him. When DR. Mudd came he said no person
had been staying there. He denied altogether
that there had been any strangers there. One
OF the other officers asked Mudd If two men
had been there, one with a broken leg. Mudd
made some reply, witness is not positive what
Mudd stated, witness thinks, that he heard
OF the assassination at church Sunday morn.
irg. Mudd seemed uneasy, and not willing
to give information without being asked. The
second time witness went to Mudd's was on
Friday, the 18th. Mudd was not at home, his
wife said, but in the neighborhood. and she
would send for him. When he came, witness
asked him If two men had been there, one with
broken leg. Mudd then said there had Mudd
denied that Booth and Herold had been at his
house. Mudd said he knew Booth; that he
had been introduced to him last fall by man
named Thompson, and that the person there
was not Booth. On the way to Bryantown a
picture OF Booth was shown to Mudd, and at
first he said it did not look like Booth, but
afterwards he said it looked some like him
across the eyes. At the house on the second
visit Mrs. Mudd said
Mr.. Ewing objected to the witness testifying
as to what Mrs. Mudd said.
The Court decided that what Mrs Mudd said
in the presence of her husband could be intro.
duced.
The witness proceeded.
Mrs. Mudd said that one Of the men left a
boot in his bed up stairs She went up and
brought the boot down. 1t was a riding boot
and had the makers nam and Broadway, New
York, together with the words 81. Wilkes
Mudd said he had set Booths leg and that
Booth left about or o'clock Saturday after
noon. The men arrived there before daybreak
he said. Mudd faid the men went away on
horseback. Mrs. Mudd said they went away
on foot She said this in Nudd's presence
Witness believes that DIR. Mudd at one time
said that the injured man went away with
crutches he had had made for him.
Cross.examined by Mr.. Stone When the
party were at Mudd's on Friday, Mudd's
wife said that boot had been left IN the bed,
when they proposed to search the house
Mudd told him on Friday that the first infor.
ha of fhn oipof
Sunday, at church. Witness and Lieut.. Lovett
both got the same reply, on the Tuesday they
were at the house, when they asked NJ udd il
the two mer Booth and Herold) had been
there, that "they had not" On Friday wit.
ness asked If two men had not been to
his house, one with a broken leg, when
Mudd replied that they had. DR.. Mudd
further stated that two men came to the house
about day break and knocked at the door, when
he went down and the injured man was
brought in, when he set the leg. He (Mudd)
said the in jured man had whiskers and wore
shawl. and that the young man was about
II or is years ofage He did not know whether
the whiskers on him were false. Mudd said
that the men had asked the road to Parson
Winners, and he showed them the road across
the swamp, one on horseback and the other on
crutches, which he had had made for him,
Witness saw some horses tracks on the read
Witness followed the road that DIR.
Mudd pointed out On Tuesday, and went
over the swamp. Witness was one Of the party
who went to Rev. Mr.. Winners house and got
there either on Tuesday or Thursday, or
Wednesday evening. Witness did not hear
anything OF them on the road. This was before
DR.. Mudd was carried to Bryantown. Witness
and Lloyd were acting under the military au-
thorties, and in Major O'Beirne's absence he
was under the orders Of Lieut.. Lovert.
At one O'Clock the Commission took a recess
until two O'Clock.
Attwo o'clock the Commission reassembled.
and r.# @
SIMON GAvACAN was called to the stand
Witness knows DIR. M udd, and as at his house
on the Tuesday succeeding the assassination,
and made inquiries If any two persons passed
en- Saturday morning. They asked IL any one
hal come past, one with fractured leg, when
Mudd answered in the Affirmative. He I'M.
helped the injured man in the house. Hestated
that they remained until the afternoon, and
then left, going towards Rev. DR.. Winners
the Doctor going part Of the road. Mudd de-
MED on Tuesday that he knew the parties. On
Friday witness went with others TO arrest
Dr. Mudd, when he stated that he thought 1t
was Booth who was at the house. They
were about to search the house, when Mrs.
Mudd threw q boot down stairs, on the lining
OF which were the words j. Wilkes" DR..
Mudd stated that the man who was there had
whiskers. Mudd said that he had been intro
duced to Booth last fall, bur did not identity
him. r...a.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Stone--M udd did not
point out the road. but said the parties left for
DR.. Winners. Mudd was shown photograph
OF Booth, and said that II was not Of either of
the persons who stopped at his house, although
xbera ovnh a N fora.
head to one OF them. Az -.--
ANNA OPFUT sworn:-Witness is the sister,
ln-law Of John M. Lloyd, and on the 18th day
Of April, when riding in the carriage with him,
they met Mrs. Surratt in Uniontown, when
Mr.. Lloyd got out and went to the carriage,