Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-22
bSURRATT,S. TRIAL. A
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WASHINGTON. June 2l-In the Surratt
trial. Judge Fisher decided chat the Court
would follow, the common practice as to
! the . matter of recalling witnesses, viz:
That the witness should consider himself
discharged after examination, unless told
Brooke, the stabler. was recalled: Have
seen Booth, AfZerott and Harrold conYers-
ing with Surratt at INV Stable: had Goa
yersatiou with Atzerott about a trip of
Surratt's He showed ME the conclusion of
q letter from Sarratt to him [ [Atzerottl;
said he had letter from Surratt, but lie
would not let me see it ALL read the con
! ter was dated in Richmond. Surrast un-
derstood the detectives were after him, and
was making his way North as fast as he
could! That was in the early partpf Arfil.
IlSG5.9 ,-,l2la 2lI7 19l'2tI+a oo9 81 81
The conyer alton between us com oymnnenced
by Atzerott calling me Out on. the pave
Inient and teliir1x me about a letter / ask
! ed Atzerott to let me see the letter. 1 un-
lderstood Surratt was making his way north
! from Richmond. The only difficuity Sur
| ratt was in was that the detectives were
after him. understood Atzerott to mean
! Government detectives. When these men
came to the stables they would go back and
engage in conversation together in a low
| tone at leastI could not hear what they
said, for they were at least l20 feet from me.
James w. Pumphrey, John Fletcher and
| John f. Joffry testified to various matters
related in the former trial, 81 ~ : .''t-y
l. n After recess. Mrs. Stoner Fitzpatrick,
who lived at Mrs. Surratl's testified that
Surratt was Intimate with Paine, Booth,
Atzsrott and the other conspirators, and
they had interviews at Mrs. Surratts house,
on d street. iii 49,, -
l. Chaplin was examined to corroborate
Blinn and HObOrts statement, and testified
to seeing handkerchief marked j, II: Sur
ratt, found by Blinn on the Wednesday 2f-
ter the assassination. Witness got the
handkerchief from Blinn and gave it 70 one
or Bakers detectives, named Grlmen. ar
Benz. w. XanderpooL, OF New York, tes-
testified. Was In washington April 18th.
saw Booth on that day and spoke TO him.
saw him three tlraes on that day saw
Booth first at Wiliard's; Afterwards on
pennsylvania avenue, DeEween lOtn and
l1th, or llth ana l2th streets. -,.
PRISONER was called TO stano up. i-.,
Question-Dld you see the prisoner tnat
| Gay
AnsWer-l saw MIN ag tne place 1ast
mentioned. he was Win wilkes bootn
ana Two OF Inree oVnerS. ihey were slt
| ting around taoie Wild glasses on ~: l
hau Deeh 10 Tue paynasGeI o. anu colnin
uoWh bearu IhuslG az une placc reielIe! 70
ana Went H. a DsileG aance was pelhg
performed. Inc table booth was at was a
round one, ana ne anu MS com hpaillohS were
talking. saw tnem olstlhGtiy. \ was
within lew leeG OF them. cannot Dc
mistaken ABOUT TINS; ,.,ay
.Cross-eXamlneo DY 6raoy.-! alu NOT
speak 70 booIn wren saw nlui III TINS
place. l saw Booth and ms c9mpanions
were engaged IN conversation' l was only
atIracteu Iiiele " .nc LiiaS.H, .I e'Gi saw. saw
Surratt before OF since until now. l TOOK
goo9 iookNat MN TINS morning. anu recoS-
nlZe him as the same man L saw WITH