It would be foreign to our purpose, as well as tedious to the reader, to examine in detail the testimony given on this trial. One conclusion--and that is the important thing--is certain. It is true, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the prosecution made an incomparably stronger case against Surratt than was made against his mother. They had but one culprit at whom to direct their aim, and they made a far more desperate and thorough-going effort to convict, because of the known unreliability of a jury to do what the prosecution might tell them to do without the aid of proof. Before a Military Commission, tossed about by the passions of its members and steered by Judge-Advocates, the accusers could afford to be careless of gaps in their scheme of proof, missing links in the chain of circumstantial evidence. Not so now and here. Vehement affirmation without evidence availed nothing. Curses against treason, traitors, disloyalty, apostrophes to the imperiled Union, tears over the beloved Commander-in-Chief, could fill no void in the testimony. Of course, there was no such outrage against not only the elementary rules of evidence, but against ordinary decent fairness, as an attempt to introduce testimony of the horrors of Libby Prison and Andersonville; but the door looking in that direction was opened as wide as possible by the eager Judge. All the material testimony given upon the "Conspiracy Trial" against Mrs. Surratt, not only, but also against Payne, Herold, Atzerodt, Arnold and O'Laughlin, was reproduced here. The direct testimony on the part of the United States occupied from June 17th to July 5th, and in that period eighty-five witnesses were examined. On the Conspiracy Trial, the direct case consumed the time from May 12th to May 25th, and about one hundred and thirty witnesses were examined against the eight accused persons, not only, but also against the eight accessories, headed by Jefferson Davis, included in the charge, the testimony ranging over the whole rebellion and including Libby, Andersonville, Canada, St. Albans, and projected raids on New York, Washington and other cities. Every witness, whose testimony on the former trial had the remotest bearing upon the question of the guilt or innocence of Mrs. Surratt, once more showed his face and retold his story.