The Portland daily press., 1867-07-04
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- The Surratt trial was resumed to-day. Th
attendance Of spectators was large, lncludIn!
several members OF Congress Judge Fishe
announced that there would be session OF tht
| Court tomorrow.
By consent Dr.. Mcmillan was recalled and
| questioned in reference to the conversation
with and statements male with one Stephen
Cameron, all OF which he positively denied
had conversation with Surratt III reference to
his mother, but he could not now distinctly
recollect what the conversation was. = D. IT,
Charles NJ. Wood sworn.-Witness was a
colored barber; have seen the prisoner before
4 on the morning of the assassination saw him
at Booker & Stewards barber shop; shaved
| and trimmed the prisoners hair; Surratt cam
! TO the shop with Booth, Mclaughlin and
another, the three named talked about COM
4 Ing from Baltimore; l Also trimmed Booth 8
hair that morning; was waiting on Booth,
| and Surratt was in the rear of me and snail
| set man, whose uame I did not know, was
sitting near the glass; when was done wait
ing on bootn he got out of the chair ana went
70 the Dack part of the shop, where lcLaugh-
IN was Disgusting himself with ialse nan;
ourratt had by this time taken the chaf 'acat-
ed by Booth. and was told to ciean him up nice
ly; Surratt looked like man who had been
| travelling a short distance; Surratt called nv
| attention to a scar on Booths neck, and said
| twas a gunshot wound; l that morning shaved
| Surratt clean all but the mouStache; this was
about A NJ, Tor ! had had no breakfast and
| had been up to Mr.. Stewards and shaved hi IN.
Cross-examined, but nothing new devel-
oped. $50 sasq1l r.. - X. .Js
Charles RUSSELL of Boston, Mass, testified
TO having seen man on horseback on the road
70 Fort Bunker Hill the next morning after
the assassination, whom he thinks ressmbled
inc prisoner; witness was member OF the Sd
Massachusetts Cavalry. ........lgl y, ts,
frank M HeatOn testified that on the night
OF the assassination he was standing in front
of the theatre when the Presidents carriage
drove up; when the carriage drove up halt
dozen persons from restaurant came up; i
recognize the prisoner as ono of the men.
Theodore benjamin Rhodes was sworn and
testified that he was in the theatre the day Mr.
Lincoln was assassinated; went in about hall
ali hour before noon to look at the theatre; saw
one of the boxes open, and wishing to see the
stage from that point went down there; the
person who-was in the box walked away, ar d
after time came up again and spoke to wit
ness, and aid he was connectedin the theatre;
ne had piece OF wood IN his hand ABOUT eight
feet long and two inches wide, and rema rked
the President would be there that night, and he
was going to fix the box SO the President could
not be disturbed; he then placed the stick,
which was of oak or pine, against the door and
in niche in the wall and adjusted it, asking
the witness if he thought it would hold. The
prisoner was requested to stand up, and the
witness stated that he should Judge that he
was the man; he had no doubt about it, heard
some one passing behind the stage curtain, and
thus man Immediately went away anda short
thick set man came in; subsequently another
party came and they proceeded 10 fix up the
box; the prisoner went out before these parties
came to the Sage. gt, ..,-,- an
On the cross-examination the witness dis
tinctly recognized the prisoner as the man
with whom he had the conversation in the box.
At 11.45 the Court took a recess till 1915.
After recess David III. Bates was sworn
The witness is a telegraph operator; from 1881
to September, 1856, had charge of the tele-
graph office of the War Department; had
charge of the cable dispatches; had great
knowledge and experience as an expert in de-
ciphering cipher letters and letters in dis
guised hands. Among other letters, ETC., Mr..
Pierrepont put in evidence a letter directed to
Atzerott, dated Washington, D. c., April 10Th,
on the day OF the Assassination. Witness iden-
titled the letter, and said he first saw it in the
War Department mail short time after the
date; placed letters e. M. s. on the outside of
the envelope that IL might go to Mr.. Stanton;
believe the handwriting of the letter and en-
yelepe to be in the handwriting of the prisoner
Surratt. The letter referred to read as follows:
b u PC r, all right. Signed Toney." The wit
ness said there was something peculiar i'll
every mans handwriting; witness was handed
Selby's letter, and SAID it was in a disguised
hand, and comparing it with the kilograms of
Booth he would say 1t was in his handwriting.
Other witnesses were examined, but nothing
of importance was elected. ~-.s.-, y. =
Mr.. Darlington said they had but two or
three witnesses, who are not in attendance,
and they would have to ask the indulgence of
the Court. Ii they Were here the prosection
would be able to close to-day, but as they We're
not the prosecution would ask an adjournment
until Friday morning to close at an early hour
ON that day. EI rs -
The Court then took a recess until Friday
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