THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS: Testimony Concerning Dr. Mudd’s Operations; Evidence that Herold Boasted that Booth Killed the President (5/18/1865)

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 17. An increased crowd was in attendance at the Assassination Trial to-day, and the room was uncomfortably crowded. Among the auditors were a few ladies with whom curiosity had got the better of a sense of propriety, and token them to the court-room, where they must have felt ill at ease during their stay. The first question asked by the new comers, "Which is PAYNE?" he being by common consent the king villain of them all. He absorbs the greater part of the attention of the audience, and you hear continually...