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and therefore, be lad 70 10 allowed to go

! A. He said he had been offered con-
rnissio anything he wanted; but know
I'M, shat ne was not g military man, b,
preferred having something more like 3
Icivil appointment, and he had taken the
place Of AZ Inspector General in the Tebe
service.
| @. Did he then hold that position2
A. That was what he said; that le was
al inspector General, or Assistant In
spec.or General, with the rank of Iieu:sn.
an, Co.one!, IthiEH he said.
| @. TIE Military Department Of Wash.
Lance. embraces the city Of Washington,
does j; Eo., and did il not, during tbe pas,
years
A. Yes, sir.
q. And all the detencea of the city?
A. Yes, sir; and on the other side of the
river. and Alexandria.
| O. It embraces ali the Notifications on
both sides?
A. Yes. sir.
Joseph II. Simmons testified that he was
J. Wilkes Booths business agent. Booth
invested six thousand dollars In oil specu-
latinns. aud lost every dollar Of it.
Mr.. Jones, q blind man, who lived in
Richmond. testified that he had heard q
great deal Of talk there about assessi mating
Mr.. Lincoln.
Samuel Knapp Chester, witness called
tor the prosecution. being duly sworn, test
iied as follows:
By the Judge Advocate:
| q. Your profession is that of an actor7
| A. Yes, sir.
| q. Have you known ]. Wilkes Booth 8
good many years?
| A. haveknown him about ten or elev-
en- years, since l first met him.
@. Q1ite intimately, suppose7
A. For about six or seven years inti-
mately.
@. Can you recall! conversation which
you are supposed IN have had with him in
November last, IL New York?
A. Yes, sir.
@. What ti,ne in the month WIS IL?
A. think ]: was IN November that
had q conversation with him.
G. What time in November7 State
about the period of time.
A. cannot th:lk Of the exact dEte, bu,
il was in the early portion of Novem Der
One day We were in conversation, and
asked him why no was not acting, and be
told me that he did not intend tn &C, in tha,
portion Of the country again; bnt he had
taken his wardr" be to Canada, ard intend
ed to run the blockade.
| O. Did you meet him after that, and have
some conversation with him in regard to
oil speculatiOns, or was it ut the same
time?
A. No. sir. The next time ! met him
was aoou. the tiuse we were to play Julius
Caesar, which we did play on the 25th oi
November; and it was either on tho 9th Oh
25.h that he asked me to taFe walk with
him, or asked If knew some costuiners
where he might get some dresses for his
character in tha, play; and asked him
| where his own wardrobe was.
@. Mas that il tho city of New York?
A. Yes; never had any conversation
with him relative to this affair out Of New
York. He said i, was still in Canada, in
charge of friend, think he snid, named
Martin. will not be positive. but I think
he said il was in Montreal. He did not SAY
then that / remember.
G. Did be ask you low you would ukt
\ to 70 into the oil business with him?
a. Not in the Oil business. He neve,
mentioned thai.
| Q. He told you he had big speculation
on hand7
A. Yes, sir.
@. Did he ask ynr to go in with hiIn7
4 a. Yes, sir. ! met him, as he vas talk
ing with soue friends, and they were jok
ing with him about the affair. ! met hin
1 ol Broadway. After he left them, he sait
he had 81 better speculation fDan that OF
hand, anu ore they would not laugh at
Some time after that, met him again nnt
he again talked Of this speculation, ane
l.
him. I told him Vas without means
that could moi; and he said it did NO
matter, he always liked me, and would fur
j.. .niah the means. The mex, time i heury
4 from him he was in w ashipgion. /.
u g. State the whole Df The Conversation
lin which ls urgeL you TO so into bis spec
h ula;ion IN Sew 1prk. I'LL
+. A. As we'll as I can remember, X wu
tell y ~ front beginning TO end. He LET
4 u
erHl letters from hln from Washington
tolling INC 20 was spsenatiug in farms in
Z. lower da rs land. and WAS sure. !s., coiI
i money, tnal must go in With hiiu. / " chi
toNirgil,ia. and n.i!l telling me that Nus,
join shiin; that he paid very iinle attention
to it. Then about theiaiter part OF Deceln.
her or early ia Januayy--i vii. not be p,s.
tive whica it was--bu, late in December
or early in J ..nuary, he came 10 New York
and came 10 my house. I tneo lived Al
No. IS Grove street; He asked me 10 take
u walk with him. di&so. We went on,
and went 10 y saloon known as the House
OF Lords, On Houston street. We remained
there = considerable time; l suppose III
hour, eating and drinking; he had offer
mentioned this affair, that Is, his specu.a.
tion, but would never say what j. was.
I would ask nam what it .wxs, vbel wOulG
say he wOu ID tell me Oy aud Oy. We ief
} there and went to,anOther SaiopE nGsle.
1.-the Revere House, and cat some oysress.-
We then starte; up Broadway 4 though
1t WAS TIME u 90 home, and my ,sav wa
down Bleecker st.eet--that is, up Broad
, way from the corner OF Houston.-aa
had to turu down Bsecker street to tirov,
! street. hade him gaod night. He askee
J me to walk o piece further up the stree
with him, and did 80. He ask .,,i pn, 4
walk mp Fourth street because Eroaclxa,
J was crowdeG; he SAID Fourth, street wa,
: not so full of people a. Broadway, anG fht
wontet1 to tell me about that speculation
walked mp there with him, and when ",
) got into an unfrequented part of the street
he stopped and told me then that he wei
J in large conspiracy to capture the head.
J Of the Government, including the Prssi
; dent, and take them to Richmond. 1asket
him If tha. was what he waited me to 81
! in. He said it was. told him could
! not do it; that 1t was an impossibility; on
lily to think Of my family. He said 10 hat
! two or three Thousand dollars that he oonll
leave thom. still said could not do it
He urged it and talked with me- for, sup
pose, twenty minutes or half an hour, ant
, still refused. He then told me that q
least I would not betray him, and that
dare not He said he could implicate raI
in the AFFAIR, anyhow. He aaid that Ii,
m SfSy waYn aW0rn f<UofhAp and <ha~ q