New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-07

VIC IHputtol liNci W 'lll iilG Oh innocent men
was fgstgred and partially consqmmeted. /
With the testimony taken at the celebrated trial
was forwarded from that strange receptacle Of
evidence, the bureau OF military JUSTICE ALT
daylts taken since
Among these was the atadaylt OF one CampbeLI,
acknowledged by nm TO be such, ana to have
oeeh sworn 10 AZ tAe shiu bureau CamppeH was
brought before us aud asked II the contents OF t99t
affidavit were true tie SAID u loaS d@ tdtSe' he
was lhen asked ,,,
why dld you make IL
" was informed ny MI Conoyer that Judge
| Holt had onered reward OF StQV,OVg l9r the cap
! ture OF Jefferson DAVIS that he HON had no
authority really TO do II; mat now that Jehersoh
! Davis was taken, they mad not enough against MN
! to justify them in what they had done; mat Judge
| Holt wanted to get witnesses to prove tat DaVlS
| was interested IN the ASSASSINATION OF fresluehJ
Lincoln, so as to justify HMM paying the $IuOoOO
| " l never lived in New Orleans
/ In his affidavit he had sworn he dld.l
| S never was III Richmond
| he had sworn to residing there.1
=, 40 not know John Surratt, and never saw
| NM
ne mad, MAD sworn 10 conversation with him
| never saw JeHefson Davis The evidence
| was prepared ny tohoVer' saw him prepare
polvi"I VI IL never Mus III the Confederate ser
wee. l never saw benjamin Conoyer said /
snoulu We "eI! CON p9lsa.eu i9r my evidence. MY
proper name Is nov Iainpqell, pqL Joseph Horne.
my eaaGfUe "s aAe n "uTEt n1o.o
,,Sora. - VIZ ~
:. Toso,,b co1 Il mot I,, ooI ,or,s his mama
OpStliu 7ltlEi - IlOb LIS rear lalC All9 tlulAS
is Roberts,
. Farnham B. Wright is not his real uame; 1t is
John Waters
"JnO. Il. Patton IS not his real name; 1t IS
f Smith"
Sarah Douglass IS not her real name. Her
name was Durham LIhis IS ConoyeT's true
: name.l
| I" There was another woman sworn. She gave
t an assumed name,'
; One of these women was CouoVer's wife; the
r other his sister-in law,
Y " Conoyer told ME thatit ! engaged in it, 1t was
a not going to hurt anybody; that Jefferson DAYS.
t wond never be brought to trial: and that If tins
evidence got to him he would leave the country
a Conoyer directed me to assume the name Of Camp
T. bell. There was a person described by that name
G who was supposed 10 be implicated in that affair
e and / was representing this party met Conoyer
v in the first place, by the appointment Of enevel
4 Suevel said could make money out Of it. Money
l. was my motive. Ireeeived $685. received $l0l
e from Couoyer and $500 from Judge Holt. go
l. $3.50 at Boston and $50 at St. Adams. went t.
d Canada TO hunt up witness to swear false, wnt
v was to represent Lamar. Snevel and Conoyer to
g gether arranged with me u 90 to Canada. Sneye
V saw the written evidence was to swear to afte
1t Conover wrote it,"
These hurried, yet correct extracts from the tes
t. timony of Campbell before the committee, ma,
D. seem all sufficient to guage the value of Conover'
n evidence, Snevels and bis own; but, lest the
d should seem TO lack confirmation, append eX
e tracts from that OF kneyel, sworn May "a, 1866.
Iay a. l,S P,r Tt,gltrp II1lt