American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-05-24

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rooms there
Question-Did he come very often to
see the prisoners O'Laughlin and Ar
mold
Answer-Yes frequently.
Question-Wu he remain fora good
while
Answer-As a general thing he would
90 into their room and | could see moth
ing further of him.
Question-Did these prisoners leave
the city and return several times
Answer-They left on Saturday to go
to their homes, as l understood, in Balti-
more.
Question-Do you know whether
Booth accompanied them or not ?
Answer think not.
Question-Were these interviews be-
tween Booth and them alone, or was
Booth accompanied by others
Answer-Never saw any one with him
Qlestion-They told you his name
was J. Wilkes Booth, did they?
Answer-Yes; Arnold Dix, l enquired
who he was, and he said, j, Wilke;
Booth
Question-Did he call for them fire.
quently and not find them in?
Yes; sometimes
Question-Did he manifest much anxi
ETY. to see them on these occasions
Answer-Frequently when they were
away he would call three Or four times
before they returned. He would seen
very anxious to see them
Question he leave message
for them
Answes- Sometimes he would reques
that if they came before he called agair
to say they would find him at the stable
Sometimes he would go into their room
and write a note to them.
Question-Look at the photograph nov
shown you and say if you recognize it al
the man you call Booth ?
Answer do. recognize it as Booth
but it is very poor.
Question-Do you remember the las
time Booth played in the city, about the
18th or goth of March?
Answer-Yes
Question-Did these prisoners prescn
you with complimentary tickets for tht
play that night?
Yes. | expressed wish to see hin
and 0'Laughlin gave the tickets.
Question-Did there seem to be any
difference in the intimacy Of his associa
ton with these men; if so, with whicf
was he most intimate ?
Answer cannot say He woulC
sometimes inquire for one and the other
though | think he more frequently in
qured for O'Laughlin
Question-Did you ever see any arms
ia their room?
Answer saw a pistol once, and bu
once.
Question-Do you remember at am
time seeing a man Gala rough looking
person. laboring man or mechanic ?
Auswer-Not laboring man. Thert
was man who used to come sometimes
think he passed one night with them
from his coming out early in the morning
Question-Do you know his name +?
Answer-No | would know him if
saw him. lie was what you would call
respectable looking mechanic. Not wha
you would call gentleman.
Question-Could you describe him a
all?
Answer-Not very minutely. His hal
looked as if it had been exposed to th'
weather.
Question-Doyou yourecoguize him among
the prisoners at the bar?
Answer-No.
Question-did these prisoners seem t,
have any business transactions with j
Wilkes Booth, and if so, of what char
acter?
Answer-They said they were in th'
oil trade.
Question-Did they seem to have al
extensive correspondence did many let
tiers come to them?
The witnesses examined this evening
in the court martial proved the intimac.
of Booth, Arnold, and O'Laughlin. MI
Cox, for the defense, objected to tn
whole of thiss sevidence oR the groun'
that the mere fact of intimacy was no
evidence of conspiracy.
Judge Advocate Holt said they ha,
: fully established the intimacy of the par
ties in Washington, andsKe simply pro
posed to show that the intimacy existe'
in Baltimore