Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-12-14
John II. Surrait.

have 1.-THE war OF the registers 20 on.
John II. surrait.
Nearly eighteen months have passed nc,
the deaths of the principal conspirator4 IL
tie assassination OF Abraham Lincoln. and
still the plot remains mystery. \ brightthe-
ater-D,ath leaVmg on the sc,ne-a wOlnd
ed man at tay IN Virginia barn. deiyng
h.s pursuors, and shot by the blunder Of a
s-ldIer-a sick mans bed, and the assassin
With has knife at his throat-tne secret
consultations Of muIderds, coming and 20
ing under various names and Disguise
these are the figures in that terrible picture.
IN which, like those of Rembrandt. vast
shadows enshroud q fierce and lurid hight
The galloWs, with four corVsos. and one of
them a woman-the Dry Tortugas wherc four
c1nvlcts cxplatC in wretched solitude their
crimcs-a quiet grave far away IN Illinois
these aIo It's companion pictures, and We; there
Is one more terrible. IL Is that 0i q man fly
ing from the land where be- was born fly
lng from the ayengcT Death, from tLe body
Of his victim, from the corpse Of bic mother
aa The -cllold seeking ~ vain o. lose himslt
in thc great world, and 90 bot bis name
from tie memory oi man. This is John
Harrison Surratt, of whose equal gull, in
the crime there is TO doubt, and by whom.
it is believed, much thar is hidden may be
revealed
The evidence taken iefYre the Military
Commission IN June. l>Jj. proved John II.
>grr2tt 20 be one 0l the PRINCIPAL consVira-
tors. IL was az the house of his mother
JhaJ tie meetings were held up o. the
week OF the assassination be had Ieen
i5lrueYiug between Richmond and Montreal.
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tbe shores OF Etypt. he was seized by the .
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