The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-13
The Assassination PlOf..llS Or
i:.iA anI AMthUrs-..Sketch of
the L"ns.ins. CuEnssira:OTS -
Their Movements Before and
Alter the Murder.

tHe k-"tlSins. CDEhsb1TH:OTH -
Their Movements Before aud
Alter the Murder.
a correspondent Of the New York World
furnishes the following interesting facts in
connection with the plot for .be assassina-
ton OF the President and Secretary OF
STATE:
BooTA TIE ORIGINAL PROTECTOR OF THE
CRIME.
Strange and anomalous rs the facts ;nay
seem, John Wilkes Booth WIS the sole
protector 9i the pot against the President
Whlcil eliminated in the tak!ns. Oi that
good 'usn'> iife He had rolled ur',er his
tongue the sweet paragraphs Of Shakes
peare referring to Rrltus. aS had his father
| SO we'll that The old man named one son
Junius Brutus, snd the other J Joiln Wilkes,
after the wild English a,sitator, unit! it be.
came his ambition, like the wicked Loren-
&c de Neaici 10 stake his life upon one
stroke for fane--the murder Of = ruler OBJ
| nox xious to the South.
| When Booth began, ''on his own respon-
sibility," to hunt tor accompices, he found
his theory at fault. The bold men he had
dreamed of refused to join him in the rash
attempt at kidnapping the President, and
! were too conscientious to mediate muir
Cor. ALI those who presented themselves
were military men, unwilling to be subor-
innate to civilian, and u mere play -actor,
! and the mortified bravo found himself,
therefore, compelled TO sink to Il petty
| rank in the plot, or to make use OF base
and despicabie assistants. His vanity
found it easier to compound with the sec
oud alternative than the first.
BOOTHS "cuE" FROM CANADA.
i He visited the provinces once certainly,
and three times II is believed, stopped III
Montreal at 81. Lawrence Hall, and bank
iug four hundred and tifty-five dollars odd
ut the Ontario bunk. This was his own
money. l have myself seen his bank book
with the single entry Of this amount. 1t
was found in the room Of Aircraft, At Kirk
woods Hotel. From the visit, whatever
lencOurage ment Booth received, he Contin-
ued in systematic correspondence with
one or more OF these agents down To the
commission Of his crime. dare not say
how far each Of Of these agents was impli-
Gated. My personal conviction le that they
we're neither 10th to the murder nor as.
tonished when it had been done. They
had money ut discretion from the Confed-
Ieracy, though acting ut discretion and out
side of responsibility, and always ut every
wild adventure, they instructed their
, dupes that each man took his life in his
hand on every incursion to the North. So
Beale took his. raiding Oh the great lakes.
So Kennedy took his, on midnight bon
fire-tramp into tho metropolis. SO took
the st. Albans raiders in their palms,
dashing into a peaceful town. And II
these agents entertained Wilkes Booths
that he carried HE life in his daggers edge,
aud could expect from them neither aid
nor exculpation.
BOOTH FURNIeHED WITH A MURDEREB
FROM CANADA.
Some ono or ell Of these agents furnished
! Booth with q murderer. The fellow Wood
or PAYNE. who stabbed Mr.. Seward and
} was caught ct Mrs. Suratt's housein Wash
inxton. He was one Of the three kentucky ,
, brothers, and outlaws, and had himself, II
is believed accompanied one Of his brothers
who 10 known to have been at st. Albant
ON the dsy of the bank. delivery. This
Payne. besids being pOsiuvsly identified
"A the ASSASSIN Of the Stewards, bad NJ
friends OF haunts in Washington. He wes
simply dispatched murderer, and afte.
the night Of tine crime, struck northward
, for the frCntier, instead Of soNthward in
the company Of Both. The proof Of this
will follow in the course Of the article.
THE MOTHER OF THE cEHcI.
VI Southeast Of Washington stretches a tn
perjne peniranla, composed offOur fertile
t counties. which ut the tip make PoiD,
Lookout. and do not contain any towr
!, within them of more than few hundYet
inhabitants. Tobacco has ruined the land
I, of ! nese. and slavery has ruined the people
Yo, in the beginning tney were OF ;hal
splandid stock ofCalyers and Lord Balti
mere. bu. retain to-day only the religion
Of The peaceful founder. mention it AS
, an exceptional aud re,. arEahle fact. thai
every conspirator in custody is by ef'uca,
a ito, Catholic These are our most ioyal
ci,izpns el.ew here, but the western shore o
!. Maryland is a noA.ons end pe.tilen.isl
clace for. patriotism. The county immedi-
,t.ly ouis de OF the District OF Coiumb bla,
to the sou,h. is named Prince Georges and
I the nleasantest village Of this county, close
to Washington, is called Surratsvil.e.-
! This nsists of a few cabins at y cross
road. surrounding fine hotel, the msster
/, whereof giving the et,lemen: his name,
left the or roperty to his wife, who Tor long
t lime carried it on with Indifferent success.
Having - sou and several daugnsers, sne
nine of the war, and let the tavern to 9