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Abram B. Olin - gshoub - Yesterday 01:19 PM
Abram B. Olin, a judge of the D.C. Court, was tasked with interviewing some of the witnesses following the assassination. Does anyone know if there is any record of his interviews available anywhere? I presume he documented the interviews in one form or another. Thank you.
RE: Abram B. Olin - Dave Taylor - Yesterday 06:46 PM
The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence, edited by William Edwards and Ed Steers, Jr., contains transcriptions of much of the government's collected evidence regarding Lincoln's death. Looking in the index of that book, I find several entries for Justice Olin and his interviews. I'm not sure if the text contains all of his interviews, but it at least has all of those kept by the government.
A hardcover copy of the book sells for over $100, but a searchable ebook version is only $9.99 on Amazon.
RE: Abram B. Olin - Linda Anderson - Yesterday 07:49 PM
According to The Evidence, “The Union League of Philadelphia published Tanner’s verbatim notes in a facsimile edition titled While Lincoln Lay Dying: A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Testimony taken in Connection with the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln as Recorded by Corporal James Tanner..." You can find the book, which includes transcriptions, in Archives.org.
Judge David Kellogg Cartter, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Judge Olin and attorney B.A. Hill interrogated six witnesses as Lincoln lay dying. Hill's name is included in the interrogation of the first witness, Alfred Cloughly, but the interrogators of the other five witnesses are not specifically mentioned in Tanner’s notes although they were most likely all present.
As Dave pointed out, Olin's interviews with other witnesses including Henry Rathbone are included in The Evidence.