Vol. II The Conspiracy Trial For The Murder Of The President: And The Attempt to Overthrow the Government by the Assassination of its Principal Officers

This is Volume Two of Three, of The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President. It was published by Ben Perley Poore in 1865 with the idea to publish one part a week of 480 pages each. It would be printed from large, clear type, on white paper, price 30 .
Ben Perley Poore, a Washington correspondent of the Boston Journal, published the first two volumes in 1865 by copying the daily trial transcripts published in the Washington National Intelligencer. He published the third volume the following year.

The Conspiracy Trial For The Murder Of The President is made available for its historical significance.

Public interest in the trial faded and Mr. Poore didn t publish a fourth volume. So, several of the last witnesses and the closing arguments are missing from these Ben Perley Poore trial transcripts. For the complete and unabridged trial transcripts, read; The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial Transcripts by David Hunter.

This is the question and answer transcript of the Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of President Abraham Lincoln. Every effort was made to maintain a consistent usage with respect to punctuation and spelling from the original text.

Other trial transcripts by this historic trial editor: The Lizzie Borden Trial Transcripts, Official Stenographic Report By Frank H. Burt; The Lizzie Borden Preliminary Hearing, Josiah C. Blaisdell Presiding; The Lizzie Borden Inquest Testimony, Josiah C. Blaisdell Presiding; State vs. Hauptmann: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping and Murder Trial Transcripts, Thomas W. Trenchard Presiding; The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial Transcripts, Major-General David Hunter Presiding Officer; Report of the Trial of Levi Weeks by William Coleman.