On June 24, while these arguments were being heard, the Grand Jury, led by its foreman, John Randolph, filed majestically into the courtroom and took seats in the jury box. Argument on Burr’s motion was immediately suspended. A profound silence fell over the assemblage and every ear was strained as Mr. Randolph, addressing the bench, announced that the jury had agreed upon several indictments. He then handed the official document to the clerk who read aloud the endorsements: “An indictment against Aaron Burr for treason.” “An indictment against Aaron Burr for misdemeanor.” “An indictment against Harman Blennerhassett for treason.” “An indictment against Harman Blennerhassett for misdemeanor.” Burr, according to those present, on hearing the indictment read, displayed no emotion. He accepted the action of the Grand Jury as calmly as he had accepted all his misfortunes. There seems to have been no justification for the statement in one of the local papers next day that the prisoner was thrown into a state of consternation and dismay. Such behavior would have been so out of keeping with the man’s character that the report can be safely attributed to Republican propaganda. After the Grand Jury had withdrawn, Judge Marshall announced that he was now under the necessity of committing Burr. So, late in the afternoon, the former Vice-President of the United States had to undergo the humiliation of being conducted by the marshal through a concourse of hundreds of curious people to the city jail, notorious for its filth and vermin. There for the night he shared a room with a man and woman and was in close proximity to the other prisoners. Next day the Grand Jury indicted for treason and misdemeanor ex-Senator Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey, Senator John Smith of Ohio, Comfort Tyler, Israel Smith, and Davis Floyd. Dayton went out of office on the same day Burr ceased to be Vice-President. After that they were known to be closely associated. Some people believed that the treasonable projects on which they were supposed to be engaged were as much the handiwork of Dayton as of Burr. It was Dayton’s nephew, Peter Ogden, who carried a letter to Wilkinson along with Samuel Swartwout who carried the letter from Burr. Senator Smith had been suspected of being engaged in the plot from the time Burr stopped with him at Cincinnati in the summer of 1805. When invited by the Kentucky Grand Jury to testify to the charges brought by Daveiss he had discreetly disappeared. Comfort Tyler, Israel Smith, and Davis Floyd were minor leaders of the expedition. Tyler, who came from Onandaga, New York, had served with Burr in the New York Assembly and there fell under his spell. Israel Smith also was a New Yorker and Davis Floyd was from Indiana Territory. They were no doubt indicted because they were present on Blennerhassett Island and took part in any overt act which might have taken place there and on the proof of which the charge of treason depended.