, 1865-07-22
More Light Upon the Aszassinotlou
PIot-hepofttd Attempt 70 Poison
1'res1dsnx lincoln and Secretary
T0bn&OH..

.tenton.-:Plan for Shooting andrew
The Washington correspondent ofthe Pitts
burg Chronicle writes az folloFs in recent
letter:
have talked with an intelligent co1ored
woman who. says !" she vas In the crowd ut
Secretary Starton's door on the evening Of
the assassinAtion-that she WAS In charge Of
geVtral children !; and to prevent their being
hurt, placed them In the angle formed By the
steps and wall Of the house, so thai she and
they were almost behind Mr. Stanton while
that marin heavy, dark cont, With his
hat drawn over his face, edged his way In
among the children, and kept moving bis
head from side to sids as If trying to get q
good look at Mr.. Stanton, while he Kept hts
right band down at his side, and she thought
and spoke alond' to coIored man near: ask.
ing him to come and stand between her and
this man, for he had pistol. The colored
man came and took the position she desired.
and the other moyedof. The story was hard
to belieEe, but her. daughter stated that she
came home that evening quite excited, say
ing there was q 'sptcsous character In the
crowd, and she thought he wanted to shoot
ME. Stanton" have reason to believe Mr.
Stanton knew Of this, and expected to The
last that abe would be- examined before the
Commission.
On . visit to Mrs. Lineeln, tbs day sho loft
for Chicago, I said to her that had always
expected Slavery would polson Mr. Lincoln
as It did Presidents Harrison aud Taylor.
The idea appeared new to her, and recalled
the fact that her husband had been YaTT iii.
Tor Eome days, from the effects Of q dose Of
blue pills taken shortly bef,1e bis SECOND In
auguIatton. She said he was not we'll and
appearing to require his usual medicine. blue
pulls, a9e sent to the drug store In which
pYrr1nNAH Ia cf AS-t
and gaze them to him at night before Going
to bed, and The next morning his paller ter.
!" His face." said she. pointing to tic bed
side whero she sat, twas white as that pil-
low case. as It Icy Just there" she exclaimed.
such deadly white; as he tried to .iis6 be
sank back again, quite overcomcl''
She described bis anxiety to be up, there
Vas 60 much to do, and her persistence, and
his oppressive langour IN keeping him IN bed
for several days; said he and she both
thought It 20 strange that the pills should
affect him IN that way they never had done
60 before, and both concluded they would
get no more medicine there, as the attendant
evidently did not understand makiuc IN
prescriptions. Could this have bean the limo
spt ken In that letter produced on The trial,
in which It is said the cup had hil.d onc3e
know an officers widow who spent some
time With her husband in Georgia while Gen.
Mitchell Vas IN command. She has told me-
Of pretended Union woman, In smaH town
where they were stAtfonEd, VII, kept
bounding house for Union Officers OF the
latCc number Of 1nvaltds among tLese board.
ers, and her especially remarktug tho a1ces-
siye and peculiar phl1or OF these inyalids;
eoon the numbaE Or deaths attracted nttcu-
charge that this femal , nend had been poison
Ing her boa1dets. While the case vas pend
Ing some order changed the troors occupy
Ing the town, and my informant never learn
ed how the matter ended, but he: dcscrin.
tion Of the pallor Of tbs victims socoincides
With Mrs. Lfncoln's account of our MARTYRS
appearance after taking the blue pills, that
u ! mas occurred 70 me- those monsters may
have some peculiar method Of poisoning.
Moreover, 1t Is highly probable that onr
political assasslDations are not yet over.
ActnTereatlon was overheard the latter !!
part Of last mouth, On dark night, between
krot Of men who Distinctly detailed 9
plan for shooting President johnson on the |
Fourth. The speakers were to station them. |
while 10 Should be speaking at Gettysburg, |
at signal, fire simultaneously. This COZ.
ycrsath u vas promptly reported to Col. Ds- !
ker By Judge Day, who told me Of the fact.
The pesson who oheardltwasn colorcl woman,
latc q slave, who knew OF Judge Day as tha. |
s1ascs nH3efp aod IN burdeued herself to him |
Der greas secret. After he had reduced her Of |
!estimouy to writing, be sent her with it to
5ol. Baker,. An Intelligent white WON IN on
he evening after the executions, oyerhcard
,ne man say to another that "the did blue.
eggsfd Yankees had not mnde much Of the
conspiracy out, and we're not done. with it
Such conversations have bean bT no
means uncommon here during the past four
'eass, and that against 3lr. LIncoln'a liz. at-
sacted but little Intention hero once. but
such thret's seek the cover Of darkness now.