s
before the assassination of the President, any or all of these men
about whom I have inquired came to your house?

Answer.--They were there.

Q.--All three together?

A.--Yes; John H. Surratt, Herold, and Atzerodt were there together.

Q.--What did they bring to your house, and what did they do there?

A.--When they drove up there in the morning, John H. Surratt and
Atzerodt came first; they went from my house and went toward T. B.,
a post office kept about five miles below there. They had not been
gone more than half an hour when they returned with Herold; then the
three were together--Herold, Surratt, and Atzerodt.

Q.--What did they bring to your house?

A.--I saw nothing until they all three came into the bar-room, I
noticed one of the buggies--the one I supposed Herold was driving
or went down in--standing at the front gate. All three of them,
when they came into the bar-room, drank, I think, and then John
Surratt called me into the front parlor, and on the sofa were two
carbines, with ammunition. I think he told me they were carbines.

Q,--Anything besides the carbines and ammunition?

A,--There was also a rope and a monkey-wrench.

Q.--How long a rope?

A.--I cannot tell. It was a coil--a right smart bundle--probably
sixteen to twenty feet.

Q.--Were those articles left at your house?

A.--Yes, sir; Surratt asked me to take care of them, to conceal the
carbines. I told him that there was no place to conceal them, and I
did not wish to keep such things in the house.

Q.--You say that he asked you to conceal those articles for him?

A.--Yes, sir; he asked me to conceal them. I told him there was no
place to conceal them. He then carried me into a room that I had
never been in, which was just immediately above the store room, as
it were, in the back building of the house. I had never been in that
room previous to that time. He showed me where I could put them,
underneath the joists of the house--the joists of the second floor
of the main building. This little unfinished room will admit of
anything between the joists.

Q.--Were they put in that place?

A.--They were put in there according to his directions.

Q.--Were they concealed in that condition?

A.--Yes, sir: I put them in there. I stated to Colonel Wells
through mistake that Surratt put them there; but I put them in there
myself, I carried the arms up myself.

Q.--How much ammunition was there?

A.--One cartridge box.