opening testimony, along with a can of worms ~

i am way behind. yesterday had a near-death dog emergency (she's looking better today; i have her on a home hydrator catheter thing. if i can get her to start eating in another day or so, she just may pull through). needless to say this has occupied mt every waking thought (and most of my attempted sleeping ones as well). so i am groggy and out of it and i haven't read my flist for two days except a brief scroll through yesterday morning, for which i apologize. i will try to get to it today.

meanwhile, it's update day at Reconstruction (and there goes the last of my buffer, so it's going to be an interesting weekend ~ geh).

here follows some assassination trial nonsense mostly for my own record-keeping, but if you want to read my blithering, ( feel free! )

today's picture is another mugshot. this is George Azerodt's cousin, Hartman Richter, who was arrested with him after the assassination. Richter spent a good spell in the Arsenal prison and Hartranft seems to have shuttled him around quite a bit and wrote numerous letters to Hancock saying: this guy's not on trial, can we take off his constraints? etc.


scores of people like Richter, Celestino (a "known" spy), Willie Jett, most everybody who worked at Ford's Theatre, for example, and all of Booth's brothers (they would have arrested his sister Asia as well, but she was too pregnant, so they put her under house arrest) were "apprehended" shortly after the assassination and held without charges (just on suspicion) for far too long for it to be Constitutionally legal. but the government gets to make up new rules in such cases, apparently.

sound familiar?

: o p