The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-30
ASSASSINATION OF Mr.. LINCOLN.

letter from Man toho KnoDs AN About IT. Who
Stood Within Ten Feet Of the President Iohen ne
Kr.otC ~ about IL he Pretended assassin King
Some OF Has Antecedsnts- HIS Oeject in LmpH
eating Himself Alleged aldtg @h' Story.
The New Orleans Times Of April 2, says:-
1.-THE following Is given for what II IS worth.
We have no knowledge of the writer, and hence
cannot vouch for the accuracy OF his statements
or intimations, but give the letter as 1t was
written:- 1. '. .-|.. .r.. ..
MoSrdoMERY, Ala, April 49, 1861 have seen
lately an account taken from one of the Louisville
papers (the Democrat, tblnkl, of one sterling
King, who pretends to be the man who killed Abra-
ham Lincoln 1t Il but right that every one should
know who this man King is, and judge him accord
Government as o detective, special agent tn ey
style themselves, in 1851. He was the man who
searched the greater portion of MOI gan's men who
were sent to Camp Douglas, and in searching them,
relieved them OF any supt rhuous Vauables they
chanced to have retained until then, and appro.
prisoners may remember the long.legged sandy
haired devil who untlrlngi in taunting them as
two teeth in rcnt In 1S63-64 he operated in and
around Cincinnati. Sam homas, the tailor Catncart,
the schoOlmaser and Mrs. Parmenter, the washerwo-
man. those terrible conspirators who were 10 have
effected the escape of General John II. Morgan and
all the prisoners then confined in Camp Chase, all
know him well. He passed himself generally there
MS a Rebel or Confederate spy. Not beng able to
find out ythIng about the escape of General Nor
gan Cincnnati, he thought TO "beard the hon IN
his den"-the Morgan in his camp-and went TO
the Generals headquarters in Western Virginia
Kentucky Rebels, trying to gain the Generals con-
fdence; but he not very successful, tOr he was
recognized by some OF his former victims OF Camp
Douglass. He arrested and tired : spy BY a
court-martial and sentenced to DEATH What be-
came OF him after that do not know Perhaps
some of General MOrgan's staff officers could tell.
" hat his object If IN saying that he Is the slayer
OF Lincoln l caunOJ tell, unless 1t be to make
some further statements to eDTage the Northern
people against Mr.. Davis. OF course his comics.
sion eliminates himself but then nothing would
be easier for his friends whom doubt not are high
in power than TO effect his escape and give him
nice round sum wherewith live the rest of his
days some foreign land. All that he is under
taking bodies no good to some one He
rested in Kentucky for horsestealing, and gives
his for making his confession, that there
taken in the assassination and that on seeing hls
name in the papers, he would be Immediately sent
Tor nom there. Now, If that were the case ne cer
tainly would not have giveH in his right name when
taken to Louisville, and then those parties in Was h.
iBgton uld never have known ANYTHING of so
important a parsonage. Next had he intended to
bleed himself to ath, as the papers say he at
tempted, he could have done 1t very easily mol he
merely wished to give appearance OF truthful
that have tor knowing that 1T is all false, 49,
that happen to know every one connected with
the killing of Mr Lincoln-was there at the time,
within ten feet of the private box, and know that
neither Sterling King nor Jefferson DAVIS had any,
thing to do with knew of 1t until after the deed
This you take for just what you think it worth; but
publish this and let hers do the same. Its publl-
cation can certainly do one any harm. There are
three persons in the State OF Louisiana who cou d.
Why do not fix q signature to this, you can we'll
imagine,