Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-04-10
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A STRANeE REvELATIoH.-We have al
| ready mentioned that man named ster-
ling King, now under arrest at Louisville,
has confessed that he was the murderer Of
President Lincoln. We find the follow
ing respecting him in the Louisville
Democrat:
He says that he entered the theatre as
any other person, purchasing ticket and
paying for it.
AT the appointed time he entered the
private box in Ford's Theatre, Washing
ton, where Mr.. Lincoln was, and he shot
him with q single-barrel pistol, which
he let fall at the time he leaped from the
box. He gives as his object for using a
single-barrel pistol, that he was compelled
to leave it behind him, and If it had been
revolver those in the box might have
used it against him.
Booth, whom, it is said, was the murderer
of President Lincoln, was in the rear of
the theatre, awaiting with horses. From
the vicinity of Ford's Theatre, he states
that he went to the residence of Secretary
Seward, and afser forcing an entrance, he
made an attack on the Secretary, himself,
cutting him in the throat with O bowie
knife. He says that after young Seward
was knocked down, the old man begged
not to be murdered, and that he struck the
blow to silence him. His only regret
seems to be that he did not kill the Secre-
tary. He says that there was another per-
son in the affair who has not yet been APP
pretended, who was to have killed Stan
ton, but he failed to fulfill his pledge.
In regard to Booth, he says that Booth
had nothing to do with the killing, with
the exception of assisting him to make his
escape from the city of Washington. He
gives in his written statement, which is
now in the hands Of the military, the route
he pursued after leaving Washington. He
says that the man killed in the barn, and
who is said to have been Booth, was a
prisoner who escaped from the Ohio
prison. He claims to have gone, In com
pany with Booth, from Washington to
Canada, and from thence to the Island of
Cuba. He states that his object in return
ing to the United States was for the pur-
pose Of releasing Jeff. Davis.
In regard to Mrs. Surratt, who was exc
cuted as one of the conspirators, he says
that she knew nothing Of the conspiracy.
The parties who planned the affair, three
of whom have never been heard Of met
regularly at the house of Mrs. Surratt, but
she knew nothing of their designs.
King is a man who, during the war,
figured in both armies, being convicted by
a military commission in each and sem
fenced to death. At the time he made his
escape from Covington he was under SEN
tence of death as guerilla and spy. He
gave as an object for making the con-
fession that his name would be published
as arrested for horse stealing, and as there
were those in Washington who knew him,
he would be sent for.
The above statement was made to Gen
erals Jeff. G. Davis and Watkins, at the
Jail on Tuesday. Since then he asked the
privilege of having q small pen knife,
which was granted to him. With this he
opened the veins Of the left arm, and
would have bled to death, had it not been
that the attempt was discovered by his
cell-mate, and an alarm given.