Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-07-07
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MORE REVEALED TESTIMONY.
sanford oOnover again ON the stand.
v AsHNGToN- Tuesday, June y.

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Adyoeate-G General Holt, recalled Sanford
ConoYer, alias j. w. Wallace, as a witness
for the government. Gen. Holt said he held
in his hand volume containing the judicial
proceedings in the case Of the St. Albans
raid and asked the witness whether his evi-
denee was therein truthfnlly reported The
witness SAID the testimony to which Gen.
Holt has especially referred, was partly his,
but associated with that of another person
named Wallace.
| Q.-Do you remember how many persons
named Wallace gave testimony on that trial!
A-There were three, so far as / know:
William Pope Wallace, j. Watson Wallace
and j. Wallace What was read from the
book just now was hereport fthe Montreal
Telegraph, printed from the type of that
newspaper The report which appeared IN
the Montreal Witness was correct. This
read as follows
James Watson Wallace said: reside at
present in this city, and have been here
since October; | was formerly resident of
| the Confederate States; | know James A.
| Seddon; he occupied the position of Secre-
/ tary of War; should say the signature to
the papers. N, N and o, are those Of the
/ said Seddon; | have, on several occasions,
| seen the signatures of James A. Seldom
! and have seen him on several occasions sign
| his name; he has signed documents in my
presence, and handed them to me after sign
ing; | never belonged to the Confederate
army, but have seen many commissions Is
| sued by the Confederate Government The
| commission of J.. Young, marked M, is in
the usual form; the army commissions are
! always signed by the Secretary of War; |
have never seen commission with the
name OF the President, or with the seal of
the government, the Coniederates at the
time | left the country, hal no seal; one had
been designed but not prepared. "
The witness remarked the above was sub
stantially what he did say. 1t was clipped
either from the Montreal Hitaess or the
Herald
Q:-State whether after you gave your
testimony IN this court, you visited Mon
trea2
Al left here perhaps the same day.
Q.-W hom did you meet there Of those
spoken of as refugees?
Al met Tucker, Carroll Dr. Patton,
tx. Gov. Wescott, George Sanders, Lewis
Sanders, his son and a number Of others /
had a free conversation with some of them,
especially with Tucker and Sanders.
Q.-What did Tucker say, so far as the
A.-They had not the slightest idea that
had testified before this commission, and
received me with great cordiality. The sub
iect of this trial was generally discussed
Tucker, after denouncing Stanton and Pres
ident johnson as great scoundrels, spoke Of
Judge Holt as a bloOd-thirsty old villain
lie said they must protect themselves by
guard at present. But, by the Eternal
day of reckoning would come; then they
would have heavy account to settle. San
ders did not make such violent threats as
Tucker did. William S. Cleary, whom he
also met, made similar violent threats He
said Beale would have been pardoned by the
President had it not been for Judge Holt
He also said blood should follow blood He
reminded me Of what he has formerly re-
marked Of President Lincoln, that .retribU-
tive justice had come, and the assassination
of the President was the beginning of it.
Q.-After giving your testimony did you
not 90 to Canada for me?
Al did, TO get a certified copy of the
report at Montreal. / met the cons pirators.
| had not been there long when they discov-
cred that my testimony had been published.
| received message from Sanders, Tucker,
Carroll and o Donnell, Virginian, some
times called Mcdonnell The man who
boasted of setting fire to houses In New
York? He so boasted; | went into saloon
to wait until the public offices were opened;
while sitting there, in about ten minutes a
dozen rebels surrounded me; they accused
me of having betrayed their secrets; not
knowing at the time that my testimony had
ever been published, | denied it; they said
if | would give them letter to that effect.
it would be well; just as | was about to get
away, Beverly Tucker came In; he said a
mere letter would not do because / had tes-
titled before the court-therefore | must
give some paper under oath to make my de-
NAL sufficiently strong;i about dozen of
these men assailed me in furious manner;
0Donnell took out his pistol, and said un-
less | did so [ should never leave the room
alive; at last Sanders said, Wallace, you
see what kind of hands you are In; | at
length consented; ii was understood that |
was to prepare the paper in my own way;
intended, however, not TO prepare the pa
per, but to escape from them at the most
convenient opportunity; they insisted they
must go to 0'Donnell's room, and | was
forced to comply; Mr. Kerr; who had defen-
ded the st. Albans raiders, was then sent for
to prepare the paper; two of Morgan's men
were there; pistol was again drawn on me;
Kerr came; the affidavit was prepared, and
| signed it, and went through the ceremony
of an oath
Odd you know that Kerr had knowl-
edge ofthese menaces
Alt must have so appeared to him, as
Tucker said if | did not sign the paper /
should never leave the town alive, and that
they would follow me to he'll.
Q.-Did that paper appear in the TeIe-
graph, and was 1t afterwards copied into the
New York World
Alt did.
The paper was read. It appeared in the
Montreal Erepiag Telegraph, of June 10, !
and is to the effect that if President John
son win send him, James W. Wallace, a
safe conduct to go to Washington and re-
turn to Montreal, he would proceed thither |
and 20 before the military court, in order |
that they may see whether he was the same
Sanford Conoyer who swore as stated. This |
is dated June s, 1865, and signed James w. |
Wallace. TO this the affidavit before refer
red to is appended, viz: / am the same
James w Wallace who gave evidence on !
the subject of the st. Adams raid, which ey-
ldence appeared on page 2l2 Of the printed |
report of the case am native of the |
County of Loudon, Virginia; | resided in !
Montreal in October. | have seen and ex-
amlned the report of what is called the sup |
pressed evidence before the court-martial, |
now being holden at Washington, on Mis- !
tress Surratt, Payne and Others. and have /
looked carefully through the report of the |
evidence, in the New York papers. of a per-
son calling himself Sanford Conoyer. who |
referred to the fact that while IN Montreal /