Maryland free press., 1866-11-22
Conspiracy to Hang Jsfersoa Davis.

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Conspiracy to Hang Jsfersoa Davis.
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, ARREST OF ONE OF THK coSspIRArons FOR suBoRDI-
90 NATION OF PERJURY. g.
Iu the recent exposure of a conspiracy to hang
= JEFF Davis as party concerned in the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln, our readers will re-
member that man named Sanford Couover,
alias Chas. A. Dunham, figured as one of the
principal characters in the plot. Conover was
: the chief agent of Judge Advocate General Holt,
and procured for him certain witnesses who for
consideration swore falsely to matters tending
to impiicate jeff Davis in the murder of EMr
Lincoln. The exposure of this conspiracy and
the correspondence between Judge Advocate
General Holt aud his tool Conovsr produced a
&. tremendous futterug among Washington Off
cials and politicians Of the radical school at the
lime, but the excitement gradually wore away.
ARREST OF ONE OF THE coysPIRAroRs.
We are likely now 10 have revival of ex-
citement growing out of the arrest of one Of the
conspirators on charge o f fsubordination of per-
jdry in connection with the conspiracy in ques-
ton. The authorities Of Washington having
been convinced of the truth of the HERALD ex-
posure, have at length, through the agency of
L. G. Turner, Judge Advocate of the War De-
partment, taken steps to punish the parties inn
dictated in the conspiracy. Matters having as
sumed a tangible shape, 1t was decided that the
best method of getting the entire, depth of the
scheme was to look up all parties connected with
tod ,,d s,h.
rnent.. TO this end Mr.. L. c. Turner, Judge
. Advocate, War Department, arrived in this city
some days ago with the necessary papers for the
arrest of ConoEer, alias Dunham, who was said
to be here. The United States detectives at once
went TO work, and succeeded yesterday in ira
cling Conover and taking him into custody, and
he was last evening taken back to Washington.
The official investigation now going forward
there regarding hisscheme is TO be concluded
for the present. 1t is said that Conover will at
once bo brought to answer before the proper tri-
bunal there for his misdemeanors, and rumor
has it that 'persons in high places who deemed
it for their best interest to show completely on
the part of jefferson Davis in the assassination of
PresidsntsLincoln,b by false Testimony or other
wise, will find themselves held up to public gaze
in manner they little dream of.
ArrlDAvIrs iMpLioArIxd coSovEn.
The following are copies of the afidavits on file
against Conover: '''
Wdshington, City District of Columbia, ss:-
W ill am II. Roberts being duly sworn, deposes
and says; I am personally acquainted with man
whose assumed name is Sanford Conover, but
whose real name is Charles A. Durham; and al
SO personally acquainted with ]. A. Hoare, who
gave his deposition in my presence at the office
of the Judge Advocate General in the City Of
Wseington D. O., Under the assumed name Of
William Campbell, on the 4th day Of November
A. D. 1865, relating to the assassination of Pres
ident>Liucoln and the completely of Jefferson Da-
Wis and others therein; the deposition then and
there made by said Hoore alias Campbell, was
the recital of fabricated statement written out
by the said Sanford Conover, alias Charles A.
Dunham and committed to memory by said
Campbell, alias lloarc, at the National Hotel in
Washington city, D.. g.; the said Conover, alias
Durham, acknowledgements out-wbst he desir-
cd Campbell, alias Hoare, should swear to, and
Campbell committee, to memory, partially by
sail Coaoyer's assistance and in my pressnce
and then, ty said Conovers procurement, said
Campbell went in company with said Conover
and myself before the Judge Advocate General,
on the 4th November, A. d. 'S5, and his depo-
siton, being substantially and almost literally
recital of the fabricated statement written out
by the said Conover, as aforesaid; the fabricated
statement sawlin Hoare's hands; itswas written
by Conover and several days..were spent in COM
mitiingit to memory by Hoare, aided by Como.
vcr and in my presence.
WN II. RoDEnrs
District Of Columbia TO wit: Andrew Wylie,
Justice of the Supreme Court of the said Dis
trict, certify that William II. Roberts, the at
fiant named in the foregoing affidavit personally
appeared before me in the District aforesaid this
5th day of October, 1866, and having been first
duly sworn said that the facts therein stated are
true.
ANDREW WYLlE.
Warrington City District Of Colambia, ::ss:-
J. A. Hoare being du,y sworn, deposes as fol-
lows; On the 5th day of November; A. D., '65,
my deposition was taken in the name of William
Campbell, at the Office Of the Judge Advocate
General in the city of Washington relative to the
assassination of President Lincoln, and the com.
plicity of Jefferson Davis and others therein.
made said. deposition at tlis instance and by the
procurement of a man who assumed the name o
Sanford Conover, but whose real name was
Charles 4. Dunham: the said Conover, alias
Dunham, acknowledgements out-the statement
he desired me to make; committed it to memo.
ry by his advice aud with his assistance, and
then, in company with him went to the office OF
the Judge Advocate General, and there repeated
X to Judge Holt and he wrote it down and J
verified the same as my:deposition; the said de.
position was wholly untrue and false; was fabri-
Gated by the said .Conover alias Dunhan, and
made the came by his procurement, after making
said deposition, the subject matter of the assas.
sination of President Lincoln and the alleged
completely of Jefferson Davis and others therein,
was duly referred to the Judiciary Committee Of
n L AZ Eat.