Assassination Trivia

[Susan Higginbotham]

I recently read "The Belle of Bedford Avenue" by Virginia A. McConnell. It's a nonfiction account of a murder case involving a fast set of young people in 1902 Brooklyn. Florence Burns, from a well-to-do family, was accused of murdering her lover in a Manhattan hotel on a block that would later be torn down to make way for the World Trade Center.

Anyway, to get to my point, the preliminary hearings were open to the public. One attendee, sitting at the table reserved for members of the press, had also been present at the conspiracy trial of 1865. Who was this person?