Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-05-16

Al the east door Of the room IL seated Majo.
General HartrAaft who IL In command At the
prison. All passes " The court room are signed
BY him and Gen Hunter. He ia assisted by
several ofhesrl who have the witnesses brought
In aud seated In the hdjolaing room.
hr. Murphy continued TO read the testimony
until after twelve o'clock, whom he was relieved
BY Mr.. Ben Pitman, who read the remaining por-
tion o. tesllmony. During the reading o. the
testimony the greatest silence prevailed In the
courtroom.
Al aftssn minute. past one o'clock General
Hunter, the President. announced th.t the usual
hour for having the recess had arrived. Tho read
ing was suspended, aud tho court took recess
until two o'clock.
APrERNooN SESSION.
At 2 O'Clock the Court reaSae mbled aud the
prisoner were brought In. Tho reading of the
proceedings Of yesterday was concluded at half
past O'Clock, when
PRASur join
was called aud sworn Witness saw Booth on
his horse to tho stable between and Q o clock,
whom he asked witness for halter. Witness did
not soc Booth whon he came with his horse be-
tween . and 10 o'clock. spangler called witness
% hold Booth q horss, telling " there was any.
thing wrong TO blame witness.
When Booth came out, he told witness to give
him his horse aud knocked him down, striking
him with tho handle Of the knife. Witness was
with Harry Ford when the bon was being fitted
up. spangier was present, having been sent for
70 remove the partition. spAhsleT, In the box,
damned tho Presidont and Gen, Grant.
Thore was nothing said IN the course Of that
conversation as to what might be done to tho
President or General Grant Heard Dsdney call
spanglsr aud tell him Booth wanted him This
WAS sig or seven minutes before Spangler called
me. was Attending to the stage door. had 70
keep strangers from coming In the stage door.
told him could not hold the horse a. was At.
tending that door. lie said II anything was
wrong, blame Il On him.
was In froAt OF the theatre while the curtain
A A n
Of the theatre never saw spangiSr wear moua.
laehe Booth would not let spAngler take the
bridle or saddle on spangler was In the habit
of hilehing np Booths horse. spangler and
myself attended Booths horse. When was not
there spangler attended TO the horse. When
Booth jumped from the Presidents box was In
the alley. There was only one horse kept In the
stable that afternoon. was there between Eve
hand side Of the theatre, the side tho Preal-
dent'a box was on. There was another horse In
tue stable some days before Booth brought a
horse aud buggy there.
partition out. Myself, spangIer, aud man
named Jake were In the box At the time
spangler said u would be a nice place to sleep
In doat knew anything about any one toolhg
gler aud Jake left the box Harry ford went
Into The boa about half past four, 10 Az the aAgs
There were some chairs In tho box then Don't
know where sPangler wcut when he lcft the box
80. oAN npAhkiet was Wuen Boolh
called mo down TO the horse. J|
Witness does not EAow John II. surratt.
Might have heeh him, bat don't know his name.
NARY l.. TURNER.
Sworn Know y.Wilkes Booth saw him on AZ.
ternoon o. the ltth Of April, about eight clock
they were currying a horse at the hack door
called man Ned three time; said, ''Tell Mad
dox ~ step hcreI' Maddox came aud he sald
something 10 him In = low voice, aud Maddox
came out Of the door
witness hero Identified spahgler as one OF the
men whom Booth called
Witness front door fronts the back door Of the
theatre.
Crosa.szamlned BY Mr.. Ewing. Don't know
where sPangler went whom he called Maddox
don think spangleF came out agAln
MARY JANE ANDERSOH,
a eolored woman, swoTn.-Witaess lives between
aud and Nipth and Tenth streets; the back
oi the theatre adjoins the house Of Mrs. Turner;
know John wilkes Booth Eaw him on the morn
ing before the assassination; two or three clock
IN the afternoon saw him and q lady standing In
the back door Of the theatre ponting up aud down
the alley At night when ! went up stairs, there
was carriage drove up the alley also, a horse
being led up the alley. sos
A AgenllemAa came up 10 the theatre door with
the hOrsa. And in-A Load voice called Med
four times. A coiored man n the window saId.
NED, Mf. Booth calls you. - when HadNeame
be sald, IN . low tone, "Tell MaddOK 10 come
hers, y aud then naiA somethink In a low tone
could not hear what u was. They bOth Went m
the thealra. The horse stood thars some lime. Il
saw the person who had the horse eonsiantly