The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-10-19
DAILY N NEWS.
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1865.
Letter from SpangIer.


Tho following letter from EDMAN SPANGLRR,
convicted Of conspiring with BOOTH in the assassi-
nation of President LINCOLN, and sentenced by tho
military commission which tried tho conspirators
to six years hard labor on the Dry Tortugas, was
received by q gentleman in this city Monday,
who loaned it to for publication. It will be
that SPANaLER asserts his innocence, and still de-
nies all participation in the assassination of
lamented President It has been asserted that
SPANaLER is a man of education, and letter writ
ten in very fowery style, and purporting to have
come from him, is now going the rounds Of the
press. We give his letter verbatim ct lHeratim:
FoRT JEFFERSON, ToRTueAs ISLAND, September
Is, 1865.-MY DEAR FRIEND: tako my pen in
hand to rite to you these ou lines to lot you know
that am well and hope you arc the same this is o
purity hard place to live the sun is very hot and
bread whe sometimes get soup there is some small
fish in tho brake water that who can catch from
our cell window but who have no fish hooks small
enough here and have no money to send for thin,
there is suffers store here you can get anything
you want If you have money there is about 500
s Eh9 hae IS san nf rsgs ssg g Of %
some feu trees am at work at my trade. You
havo no doubt been acquainted with the fact and
tence and Imprisonment, Nothing that I can say
or do can alter the opinion of the world or the
Publick. Before God and all that is sacred am
perfectly innocent of all the charges and specica-
tions brought against me by the prosecution. I
had no knowledge or idea of anything nor did aid
or assist the william tho assassin OF the Pres
ldent either before after the assassination you
know that was not moro intimate than others
that around him not as much soma of them.
He asked mo to see to his horses wich I did
he said that he would make me hdndSon,d presen,
wich he did, sic gears on The Nand, Of Dry Tor
tugas l never enjoyed his confidence or his
favour except occasionally when we met at
restaurant he would ask me to have something
to drink I had nothing to do with him on the
evening of the assassination more than any
other man similarly situated could have He came
to the Theatre called me and asked me if I could
hold his horse which L declined for the reason I
had my work to attend to on the stage. I called
Peanut John to hold his horse, who held him un-
til he came out after numbering the President. I
didnot know what had taken place until the deed
had been committed and Booth made his escape
escape nor did I know nor had eany thing to do
with the mortice in the wall or boring the whole
or tho fixing of the bar of the door, loosing the
scriews all this was charged with as being Guilty
who know will hold me accountable if I lie
knieu nothing or herd nothing about the existense
of eany such thing until after tho assassination
when was asked concerning it oil the evidence in
my case is known leave it to all honest and un-
Prudical people to judge of my innocence or guilt
Crate injustice has been done me by some false
witnesses from whom expresses prier to my trial
know acted by gain or reward. 1wsh you would
Soc and SEQ whether he ever received my
statement that I sent him with young man by
what he is going to do with it please and send
me somc small fish hooks some 2 or threo fiy
hooks in T. litter and little mony to buy some
postage stamps and some paper, there is niggar
all my enquiring Friends and let me know what
they think of me am here suffering here which
''' ''''"' yours -N0Hf E6MRS fssIRsff,a sPANeLER.