The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1866-03-29
THE ASSASSINATION.
THE LOUISVILLE PRISONER.
FURTHER CONFESSIONS

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=, binary statement from the Louisyill
Courier, TO the effect that a mau name
70 Sterling King, in Jail in that city, ha
b. confessed that he was the person VII
70 attempted the life ofSecretsry Scwarc
,. last April The Louisville papers q
. yesterday, have fuller particulars q
." h.s confession. Tho Courier says:
% We chance to be personally cogni
10 zant Of the ateccdents Of this pre-
IS tended conspirstor. He claims TO b
native Of Virginia, and states tha
. he was a cousin Of Horatio King, for
u mcrly Assistant Postmaster General
1t In 1868, he figured as a lawyer il
e Cincinnati, and also obtained permit
for the shipment of goods to Mem
'Iphis. While thus engaged, he wa.
arrested by the military authorities
charged with uttering disloyal seat.
, mcn,s, tried by court martial. aud sen
fenced TO six months labor on the for.
tifoations back Of Covington, with a
ball and chain attached TO his leg
For some reason, the sentence was moi
carried into effect.
Some time aIterward, he appeared
in Abingdon, Virginia, where he was
sporting the uniform Of Confederate
Colonel. General John IL. Morgan
arrested him as n spy; he was tried
lby n court martial and sentenced
to be hung. But in this case, as in
so many others, good luck attended
him, and he managed to escape to the
Federal lines.
We know nothing of Kings opera.
tions subscquent to his escape from
Virginia, until he was lodged in our
city Jail on tho charge of stealing hor.
scs and buggies.
The following is from the Democrat
King states that he was the man
who killed President Lincoln. lie
says that he entered the theatre as
any other person, purchasing n ticket
and paying for it. At tho appointed
time he entered the private box, in
Ford's theatre, Washington, where
Mr.. Lincoln was, aud he shot him
with u single barrel pistol, which he
let fall at the time he lcapcd from the
box. He gives as his object for using
II single barrel pistol, that he was
compelled to leave il behind him, and
il il had been a revolver those in the |
box might have used il against him
him. lie further says that after he |
shot the President aud loaped from
the box, he passed by several persons,
but one whom he knew, Miss Laura
Kccnc, aud she did not know him.
According to his statement, Mr., j.
Wilkes Booth, whom it is said was
the murderer of Lincoln, was in the
rear of the theatre awaiting with hor-
scs From the vicinity of Fords the
atrc, he states that he went to the
residence of Secretary Seward, and,
after forcing an entrance, he made an
attack upon the Secretary himself
cutting him in the throat with bo.
vie knife. lie says that after young
Seward was knocked down, the old
man begged not to be murdered, and
that ho struck the blow to silence
him. His only regret seems TO be
that he did not kill the Secretary
lie says that the statement published
in the papers, that there were two
persons in the affair, is false as he
is the man who shot the President
and made the attack upon Secretary
Seward He says there was another
person in the affair who has not yet
been apprehcndcd, who was to have
killed Stanton, but he failed to fulfil
his pledge.
In regard to Booth, he says that
Booth had nothing to do with the kill
ing, with the exception of assisting
him to make his escape from the city
of Washington. lie gives in his writ.
ten statement, which is now in the
hands Of the military, the rout he pur.
sued after leaving Washington. He
says that the man killed in the barn,
aud who is said to have been Booth,
is a prisoner who escaped from the
Ohio prison. lie claims to have, in
company with Booth, went from
Washington to Canada, and from
thence to the Island Of Cuba. lie
states that his object in returning to
tho United States was for the purpose
Of releasing Jolf, Davis, the President
of the Confederate States.
In regard to Mrs. Surratt, who was
executed as one of the conspirators,
lc says that she knew nothing of the
conspiracy. The parties who planned |
he affair, three of VIII NJ have never
be an heard of, met reeu 'arly at the
house of Mrs. Surratt, but she knew |
ot their designs. lie says
that he was stopping at the house OF
Mrs Surratt some ten or twelve days
previous to the execution Of the plot.
There are two prisoners now in the
jail, Llcwcllyn aud Grimes, who say
that they know something Of the at
fair, aud it may be that the tale has
been coucocted for the purpose of
getting the three released from the
the charge now against them, aud
have them turned over to TIE military
authorities.
The above statement was made to
Generals jeff. &. Davis and Watkins,
NJ the Jail Tuesday, after having been
related to two or three of the pris-
oncrs and policeman Blight Find
ing that this statement was likely to
get him into very serious difficulty,
King detcrmind to put an end to his
miserable cxistance. lie asked the
privilege Of having small pcn.kniic,
which was granted 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 discov'
cred by his cell mate and an alarm
given. We yesterday paid visit TO
King in his cell, and found him