The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-16
DEVELOPMENTS ! !
THE EVIDENCE ACCUMULATESI
murder Will Quit


The following which we clip from the
Baltimore Md Gdtette, Is another link In
the chain Of evidence, that in COPS own
good time will be completed for the convlc-
ton orthe Military Commissions which in
violation of the civil law sat in Judgment
upon the lives and liberties Of citizens, and
condemned to death or penal scryitude
their victims.
The Gazette in speaking Of the case ofDr.
MuDD, says: "As change for the better
has begun to dawn the voice oftruth is be-
ginning to be heard once more. IL speaks
ms yet in subducd tones, but IL will one day
ring out like q clarion, The dead sleep
quietly, but blood foully shed has cried
! from the ground from immcmorial time,
and from the graves of Mrs. SURRArr and
VIM. ave, aud from those Of the prisoners
who persisted at Andersonyille aud Sails
bury accusing voices will sooner or later
come, telling us how, from cOld-blooded
policy or in hot passion, murders have been
done, and calling the guilty to account
We have heretofore published many isolat-
ed facts which have from time to time peen
developed in relation to one or other of the
victims Of Military Commissions. We APP
pend the following startling statement,
which shows that DR.. MuDD Is suffering as
IA prisoner at the Dry Tortugas under the
sentence of a Court which believed him in-
pocent. 1t was originally written for the
Prince Georges gazette, but for reasons
unknown to rs was not published:
August 10, 1865.
"Edit0r Gazette:
DEAR SuR-In Washington, on Friday
last, | met an old acquaintance, one of the
highest in military rank of the late Com
mission etc. lie thus spoke to me:
THE Court never believed that DIR.
Mudd knew anything about Booths de-
signs. Booth made him a tool rs he had
done with others. DIR. Mudd was the rjcttn,
N his oiCn timidity. Had he acknowledged
to the soldiers whom he saw In search of
Booth (the day after the as~SaSsinatiOn) that
Booth had got his leg set at his house and
went OIL, and had he. Ike q man, come out
and said he kReig Booth. instead of ddtiy de-
nying it to the Court, he would have had
little trouble
More of similar purport was said, but
the points are included in the above.
AS | do not know DIR. Mudd or any of
his relatives, it will be plain, | hope, that
this statement is made solely with the view
that it may be acceptable to some of his
friends.
" estate Of Maryland, Prince Georges county.
TO nit:
81 hereby certify that on this eleventh
day of December, Ammo Domini 1896, be-
fore me, the subscriber, Justice of the Peace
OF the said state, in and for said County,
personally appeared James l.. Henry, of
said County, and makes oath on the Holy
Evangely Of Almighty God that the afore-
going statement is atrue copy of one which
was prepared by him at the time of its date
for the purpose of its being inserted in a
newspaper published ut the county seat of
the county aforesaid, but the same was not
so published at that time. And, further,
that the facts set forth in said statement
are strictly true and that the officer alluded
to therein was General David Hunter, who
was the President of the Military Com
mission referred to, and with whom this
alliant has been acquainted for many years,
having been fellow officers in the army.
sworn to before
''ABNER r. Hoop, J.. p.
"Stdte Of MaryiaRd, Prince George's conn
~. set.
II hereby certify that Abner r. Hood
Esquire, before whom the aforegoing af
tidavit appears to have been made, and whC
has subscribed the same, was ut the dat,
thereof a Justice of the Peace of said State
in and for the said county, duly commits
stoned and qualified, and authorized by
the law of this State to take acknowledge
ments ofdcedS, administer oaths, &c.
sin testimony whereof have hereuntO
subscribed my name and affixed the seal o
the Circuit Court for Prince George,
county this eleventh day of December
Ammo Domini 1866.
FREDERICK SASsCER,
Clerk Circuit Court for Prince
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