Anna Surratt interview

[RJNorton]

Joe, this is what I was referring to regarding Coyle's denial at the trial. This is from Poore:

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JOHN F. COYLE,

a witness called for the prosecution, being duly sworn, testified as follows:—

By the JUDGE ADVOCATE:

Q. Will you please state to the Court whether you were ac-quainted with J. Wilkes Booth in his lifetime?
A. I knew him.
Q. Did you know him somewhat intimately?
A. Not at all.
Q. J. Wilkes Booth, before he died, made this statement
that, on the night before the assassination of the President, he wrote a long article, and left it for one of the editors of the “Na-tional Intelligencer,” in which he fully set forth the reasons for the crime. Will you state whether such a paper was received?
A. I never heard of any such thing. This is the first I ever heard of it.
Q. Are you quite certain that no such paper was received at the office of the “Intellligencer”?
A. Not that I heard of.

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Wasn't the letter Booth gave to Mathews addressed to Coyle at the National Intelligencer?