Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-06-20

WAsuiNGToy, June IS.-The close Of
the second days evidence in the Surratt
case leaves the prisoner in tight place,
and apparently destroys his hope ofacquit-
tai by ottibi Judge Fisher is rapidly i'm
proving and bore the days fatigue much
better than he did yesterday. Surratt
looks much thinner and more anxious than
he did week ago, and betrayed good
deal OF nervousness at various times during
the day.
Two hours and half were occupied in
the REORGANIZATION of Sergeant Dye,
who positively identifies Surratt as the par
~ whom he saw talking with Booth and
Spangler in front OF the theatre on the eve
ming of the murder, several times within
half an hour before the fatal shot was fired,
and also the man who called out the time
for the conspirarors from the COCK in the
vcstibulc of the theatre. and separated
from Booth but five minutes before he did
the bloody work The utmost latitude OF
cross-examination was allowed by the
Court, and the prisoners counsel resorted
to every possible eypcdient to worry and
confuse the witness. Judge Pierpont pri-
yately said thai 10 all his legal experience
he never before saw such desperate and
long continued effort to break down the
evidence of witness. The examination
was carried on by Merrick, though his as
sociates made frequent Suggestions
Sergeant Dye is an erect. promp.- sol
dierly looking fellow, of much intelligence,
and bore himself with wonderful coolness
ard command of temper. The effort to
overthrow his testimony was failure. 1t
remains intact in all its material points
The most that was accomplished was to
show that now, when lie had been Re
crliting Sergeant, and accustomed to meas
uring men for y year, he speaks of the
third man, in that trio at the theatre, as
two or three inches taller than in his evil
denice before the Military Commission two
years ago. There is also a possible dis
crepancy Of three or four minutes IS 10 the
time during his interview in front of the
theatre when Surratt examined the Presi-
dents carriage, whether Immediately be-
fore or Immediately after the rush from the
theatre TO the saloon adjoining at the end
OF the first act.
The witness Reed testified. as in the CON
spiracy trial, TO seeing Surratt on tic street
in the afternoon of the day of the assassi
nation The defence wanted the privilege
of cross-examining him at q later stage of
the trial, and the Judge said he would con-
slider the motion.
Il was admitted by his counsel that Sur
raft was in Montreal from the sixth to the
twelfth of April preceding the assassination,
and on the eighteenth after that event.
The sensation of the day was the evil
dence Of negro woman, who lived at Mrs.
Surratt's. and testified that John took sup
per with his mother in the dining room of
her own house about 0 o'clock Of that ia
tai Friday. The prisoner leaned forward
in his chair quite unconsciously while the
witness spoke, and his face was more flushed
than at any other time since the trial begun.
His counsel endeavored to trap and con-
fuse the colored woman, and followed the
effort up till the Court felt obliged to check
and rebuke them, whereupon Bradley flew
into violent passion and used language
toward the Judge that in most courts
would have caused his instant arrest.
The prosecution have now proved that
Surrstt left Montreal on the morning of the
18th of April, 1865, two days before the as
ssssinatior, while one witness swore to
seeing him in the street here on the after