by whose invitation Weichmann took a drink.  After that the entire party went to Kloman’s, on Seventh Street, and had some oysters.  The party there separated, Surratt, Weichmann, and Holohan going home.  In the month of March last the prisoner, Payne, according to Weichmann, went to Mrs. Surratt’s house and inquired for John H. Surratt.  “I, myself,” says Weichmann, “went to open the door, and he inquired for Mr. Surratt I told him Mr. Surratt was not at home; but I would introduce him to the family, and did introduce him to Mrs. Surratt—­under the name of Wood.”  What more?  By Weichmann’s request Payne remained in the house all night.  He had supper served him in the privacy of Weichmann’s own room.  More than that, Weichmann went down into the kitchen and got the supper and carried it up to him himself, and as nearly as he recollects, it was about eight weeks previous to the assassination; Payne remained as Weichmann’s guest until the nest morning, when he left on the early train for Baltimore.  About three weeks after that Payne called again.  Says Weichmann, “I again went to the door, and I again ushered him into the parlor.”  But he adds that he had forgotten his name, and only recollected that he had given the name of Wood on the former visit, when one of the ladies called Payne by that name.  He who had served supper to Payne in his own room, and had spent a night with him, could not recollect for three weeks the common name of “Wood,” but recollects with such distinctness and particularity scenes and incidents of much greater age, and by which he is jeopardizing the lives of others.  Payne remained that time about three days, representing himself to the family as a Baptist preacher; claiming that he had been in prison in Baltimore for about a week; that he had taken the oath of allegiance and was going to become a good loyal citizen.  To Mrs. Surratt this seemed eccentric, and she said “he was a great-looking Baptist preacher.”  “They looked upon it as odd and laughed about it.”  It seemed from Weichmann’s testimony that he again shared his room with Payne.  Returning from his office one day, and finding a false mustache on the table in his room, he took it and threw it into his toilet box, and afterward put it with a box of paints into his trunk.  The mustache was subsequently found in Weichmann’s baggage.  When Payne, according to Weichmann’s testimony, inquired, “Where is my mustache?” Weichmann said nothing, but “thought it rather queer that a Baptist preacher should wear a false mustache.”  He says that he did not want it about his room—­“thought no honest person had any reason to wear a false mustache,” and as no “honest person” should be in possession of it, he locked it up in his own trunk.  Weichmann professes throughout his testimony the greatest regard and friendship for Mrs. Surratt and her son.  Why did he not go to Mrs. Surratt and communicate his suspicions at once?  She, an innocent and guileless woman, not knowing what was