Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-22

I hesrd what he did not believe he heard.
i You appreciate the difference between the
impression designed 10 be conveyed. Whzi
Spangler evidently did say was, Hush
your mouth you don't know whether
| it's Booth or not q natural exela.
nation Of q man who supposed be heard
another slandeEed, or who was frightened
for fear it might not be Islander. WhaI
Spsngler evidently did not say: Dom
say which way be went would indicate
at once his desire to shield Booth from The
consequences of an act 10 which he
1 (SPangler) was 3 party, or Of which be had
some previous intimaliou, or il which he
sympathized." $50 e%.-srHs .rr 81
MR.. GIFFoRD's TESTIMONY.
Mr.. Clifford ecFrobOrates Mr.. Ford's
| views upon every point referred 10 in the
above imperfect sketch Of Mr.. Forts de-
saltory remarks. Tbs hssty imprisonment
and honoTablei release of both Mr.. Ford
and MIR. Clifford are familiar TO all who
read the reports OF the trial. Mr.. Clifford
rscourts several anecdotes Of prison life, Of
Weichman, and ofother witnesses. WEIGH
man he describes as having been 10 almost
constant terror. He VISA the butt OF some
OF his companions, and Of some Of the
officers. He was once made 10 believe that
he was to be put in irona, and, again, that
he had been condemned, without trial, b
be hung. 1t is Mr.. GiforRs impression
that Wsichman would have consented to
almost anything to get himsClf out of the
serzpes and that he did allow his recollec-
ton Of affairs 10 be mnddled to bis own
behoof and in the interest of injustice
A aWnoA Eaox,o- Il a.
ali, one day, to Judge HOles Office. Judge
Bingham was there, and saidi to WEIGH
| man $780,. .--..-..-- i.
"Wby didn't you swear to what you
said you would, yesterday? 1901.
"Pve forgotten il, sir, said Weichman.
"'Damn your responded Judge Bing-
ham, Pll make you swear to il, and more !;
and I'll make you get me more testimony
against that woman, or I'll hang your
"Weichman, scared limp, managed to
say: -s1 --r -tI ar.
%If l could get out could get more
testimony! I 81 ...s
"'Whsre p asked Judge Bingham.
| ".Down by the canal ~.
Bingham sent a detective with WEIGH
man at once, to hunt the witness or Wit
nesses up. He then bullied Maddox into
saying things Then he called me and
said: You see that Z and went on more
moderately, as he saw was not frightened.
Later, while the trial Of John Surrat was
in progress, Mr.. Clifford met Weichman 10
Washington, and talked with him about
the mileage Of Witnesses. Weichman was
about to go to the Courthouse to apply for
more mileage. .- ett a
81 thought you men were doing this for
patriotism" said Mr.. Clifford. %. -.
Patriotism be damned Pm doing it
for money" said Weiehman. -
The same afternoon Mr. Clifford and
Weichman met in the same car between
Washington and Baltimore. Conversing
upon 9he assassination and the trial,
Weiehman, whose conscience troubled him,
remarked:
"Pd give a million of dollars If / had
had nothing to do with IL" .-
Mr.. wIEL's TESTIMONY.
the conviction of John Surratt, the deliber
ate atrocity and ingenuity (which must
have been the fruit of profound, deyilish
genius. Mr.. Wiel is well.knOwn in Balti-
more, and respected. To him, as he re-
laies, came on Thursday afternoon, while
the Surratt trial was in progress one
Schlesinger, who asked his advice. Sehles-
niger had just been visited By. q man
named Himmel, who, desiring to unload
his soul of its burden, made known to
Schlesinger the following details, which
Schlesinger, in his turn, proceeded to com
Ihunicate to Mr.. Wiel. Himmel had been
approached by party in the interest Of the
| prosecution, and WAS Sessrzss. 10 testify shaE
he Left Washington on the evening Of April
II, 1865, the night OF the azasssinasion,
with horse and wagon, in company with
a man named "Carl;" that he Watered his
horse in Bladensburg, where two men came
| to him-one wrapped in a travelling shawl
and asked him if he was going 70 Balti-
/ LaoTe, and If be could take them there for s
compensation that he took them along !;
that in the course ofthe ride, they gave him
their names, one as Lyons" the other (the
man with tine shawl as Patterson !" that,
when they were within q few miles from
Baltimore they asked him il there was not
road going around Baltimore, which they
could take, and avoid the trouble of pass
ing through the city /; and that he directed
| them to &C over Locust Point, and take
row-boat across the basin to Canton. If
he should be asked in court if he recog-
nized the prisoner (Surratl), he was to re-
| ply: "Yes, that Is the nan who called
himself Patterson" "CarP' was to testify
TO the same story. A man who was
called "Col. Sigel," was TO testify that on
| the morning of the 18th of April, he saw
Lyons" and stranger taking breakfast st
| hotel in Canton; that at the request OF
4 L IL 49, l. L., 1T
| the country; and that he recognised Sur
raft as the stranger be saw with Lyons"
at Canton. A "pedlar" was to testify to
having cold dirk and wig to "Lyons" at
the camp Of some regiments near Wash
ington, and that "LyOns" told him that
there was TO be a fuss at the theatre that
night, and that he did meet Lyons" there
i the night in question. The whole object oil
the plot was, Of course, 10 prove that Sur
| raft, who WAS IN Elmia, New York, On the
| night OF the assassination, had been IN
Washington, and party to the crime, on
that night, and that he had quilted Wash
ington after the deed and been traced all
the way to Baltimore and beyond.
Such was the fine scheme, as related by
Himmel to Schlesinger, and by Schlepinger
to Mr.. Wiel. Lyons was myth. But ''thG
pedlar" was 10 prove that "Lyons" was al
the theatre on the evening Of the asssssina-
ton thai Lyons had bought q dirk
knife and wig from him under suspicious
circumstances. The other witnesses" werS
TO swear that this Lyons" who did The
Suspicious business" journeyed beyoEt
Baltimore that night With SurraiL They
all kne0 (?) Lyons" and it was only
by making him a parsonage in their stOIJ
that they could swear that they had alsC
seen Surralt. In brief, by swearing tina
they all knew and saw and spoke will
Lyons" that fatal evening, and that ther'
waa stranger with him, wrapped in I
| shxvl," it would beeasy enough to swear II
the eourt-r room that Surratt was the man II
the shawl.
Mr.. Wiel at once made known this in
formation to Mr.. Ford, and measures wer
taken to inform the proper parties OF IN
discovery. The plot, therefore, came
grief. Himmel recoiled from taking an
share in it, as evinced by his confidence
| Schlesinger. But Mr.. WieI is informe'
that the men engaged to persOnate the othe
witnesses were kept 10 Washington som
time, in the expectation OF being calie,
upon the stand for the goyernment-thei
expenses being paid, in the meanwhiie NJ
| Nv themselves. J. b. ).
"THOSE ARMS" BIZ r
..s1raws show which Way Ihe VIM