Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-08-06

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men did know the record, or they would lever
have made the charge. at this time there was
some laughing in the room, and Judge Fisher
instructes the Marshal to direct the bailiffs to
atr ,h any one found disturbing the good order
OF the court, no matter VINO 1t was
Mr. PIerrepoint resumed, and read the testi-
mony OF Sergeant Dye. He tells you there was
: picture Oh that countenance not easily to be
for they were then about to commit this Awful
c ime. As Sergeants Dye and Cooper were
gong out d street. lady hoisted the window
ana asked what was wrong down town. When
webster murdered DR.. Parkman, and he was
told they bad found the body, he said, ssHave
they found it ALT" The woman asked Sergeant
Dye how be knew Booth killed the President.
Mr.. T. next referred to the testimony of Ser.
geans Cooper, who was with Sergeant Dye.
cooper was walking up and down, while Dye
was sitting on the platform. He conversed
with Sergeant Dye. He saw man approach
the rear Of the carriage. and look in, and saw
rough-looking man standing near the wall of
the theater. Wherever you find witnesses
not situated exactly alike, and they come
upon the stand and each swears to
the same identical facts, you may rest
assured that their story is made up. No
two men see alike; no two men hear alike.
One tells what he heard and saw. and the
other tells what he heard and saw. 1t Is true
that men do not see and hear alike. Now,
gentlemen. before the theatre by three men is
Booth seen; before the theatre by three men is
Surralt seen. W hen the last time is called
drink, and walks into the theatre and murders
the President. II was on the very day when
the President had been with Gen. Grant and
his Cabinet 70 devise means to be lenient and
mercifnl to the South By the side of his wife,
by the side of his friends, be 10 stricken d own
by the assassin's hand. Yet my friends say
say the plotters in that crime are innocent
The whistle for the signal sounds, when
Booth goes in to murder the President and
Payne goes to murder the Secretary of State.
dAnphfpr IN n nc U foh
and the wife within q few weeks OF the hour
OF assassination dies. Have we not had blood
enough And now won't we stoplt! The
civilized world expressed their con domination
Of it; $4,000 rebel prisoners at Point Lookout
put their seal of condemnation on it,
This deed done. HeTold and Booth fee forth
oner to get the arms, the ammunition, and
whisky, which he and his mother had pre-
pared IT'D those arms they escape, but are
taken and brought here as living witnesses.
Now. gentlemen, who did the deed! 1t was
at first supposed that John Surratt had at
tempted to kill Mr.. Seward, but it was subse.
quentiy ascertained to be Payne. What be-
came OF him! After wandering about be re-
turned to the house w here the plot originated
and there he was arrested. No jury yet has
passed on one of these crimes. The world looks
on you; Your friends look on you, and your
God looks on you. Mr.. p. then referred to the
ties imery of Mr.. Ramsdale. He was on the
Bladensburg road, short distance from this
city. He saw the prisoner on the horse hired
OS,
Just as be appeared when he got on the steamer
To go TO England. Where did the prisoner 70
10 AFTER Ramsdale saw him! This horse has
never been found: the Others have been. Where
the horse is don't know; but the man who
rode ii has been found. We find him on
The boat from " hitehall to Burlington,
Vermont. He gets to the depot in Burling-
toE. ard 8 short man is with him
They take the train and hurry off. Just after
they leave, Mr.. Blinn, who kept the depot,
picks up a handkerchief where the tall man
lay, and on it is written the fatal name Of John
II. Surratt Next we find them on Mr. Ho-
harts train The tall man tries 10 talk Cauuck,
but when he gets earnest, and wants to be al
lowed to remain on the train, he forgets the
Canuck. and speaks good English. MIR. p.
here read from the testimony of Mr.. Biinn
As TO the finding OF the handkerchief and the
two men sleeping In the depot, this, remember,
is W lille Hollshan is here in the city of Wash.
Ing on. Nj r. r. next read from the testimony
OF Mr.. Hobart, and next from me testimony OF
Chaplin, and said tn is will show You that Is all
true as 10 SurTatt losing the handkerchief, and
II being found by Mr.. Blinn. Chaplin "a " the
han dkerchief before Hollohan had any chance
to lose his.
Mr.. Pierrepoint here announced that he
suggested that a recess be taken, and at 70 IS
the Court took a recess for half an hour.
On reassemblng, at lis O'Clock
Mr.. Pierrepoint resumed his argument. He
said Mr. Hobart had shown that the train on
which Surratt was reached Montreal Al Q az.
But Surratt did not continue on that train, bnt
left at st. Adams and went in another direction
and did not reach Montreal until some time
afterwards. John Surratt was here IN the city
OF ashineton on the night OF April 3, and he
is registered In st. Lawrence Hall at 10 a. m
on the 5th Of April. He could certainly come
from Montreal here in the same time
Won't the gentlemen tell us why Surratt went
In disguise-why he was secreted in MontreaIg
They say he is guilty of no crime: why was he
secreted at Boncher's housel They saw he ia
q Mr. d hnca 4
from the Bible the curse pronounced on Cain
He then read from the evidence OF ST Marie
where he asked the prisoner how he got GU. al
Washington. Surratt teld him be left tn at n 10 bit
or the next morning; that he was disguised, and
looked like an Englishman He had scarf on,
and thus did he escape. and thus did he
attempt to put off his broken English to Hobart.
We have always learned that truth was stran-
ger than hetlon. The defense attempted to
prove hat Dye was lying. and brought Gift
1oru to show that Dye was not on that plat
form. Then they brought on little Hess to
show that be was thereto show tha he was
alling the time. and he was the person whom
bye ard call the time. MIR. p here referred
tn the ties timony of Messrs Carlin and Hess
Hess says be was in a song TO be sung after the
performance of the American Cousin. He met
MIR. CarlIn and MIR. Clifford at the door of the
7 III a'er and after leaving them returned to the
theater. One lie generates another, and an.
otter, until ten thousand are made l am
not afraid of liar Oh the stand, but it
Is the truth that is to be feared. Hess
the President was killed, aud he admits on
ere SIS exc m n alton that be was not wanted on
the stage until after The close of the play Mr.
r. again read from the b. bile to show where
false witnesses never agreed with each other
You remember the testimony as to Sergeant
Dye and Sergeant Cooper passing Mrs Sur.
rats house. The defense felt the force of
that, and attempted to contradic, It. They
hrst brought a buchanan who had a house on
another street. He heard no one talking the
street was still. He could not tell what kind
OF weather IL was; all he knew was that he
was there until IL o'clock. They did not put
his wife on the stand. II they had, she would
have told you that she put her husband
TO bed that night, and that he had a quantity of
lseer IN him. Then they bring Mrs. Lambert
on the stand She says she first came out on
the porch and then went to the window. She
says great many were passing by. The
Dutcbman says no one passed. Mrs. Lambert
says II was between IL and IL O'Clock at night
when she heard the conversation. She meant to
be truthful, and stated positively it was be.
tween IL and IL. Long before that time Ser.
next hear OF another physical impos .tbility
from the counsel, the physical i'm possibility
or SurrAlt getting from Montreal to Elmira
and going over 1t all they brought him there
ii tally At O'clock at night on the 18th Before
that, they had him there all the time talking
with people on the day OF the 18th. We did not
take any pains to show him about EImira We
b ad him in Washington.
Mr.. Bradley interrupted, and said the prose-
cution had brought Surratt down the road
and she defence thought IL unnecessary to 90
On the OgdeBsburg road.
Mr.. PIerrepoint res umed. and said the pros.
PcutIon PINT Surratt on No train. They found
him IN Elmira and brough him to Washington.
MIR. +. here read from the testimony to show
how tOnR SnrrAtt a n uolI