The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-04-06
The Washington Assassination.

The Washington Assassination.
A man named STERLING kISe WAS ar
rested in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on
The charge Of horse.s:eailng, and taken to
Louisville and confined IL Jail. After be-
ing confined few days he made the toI-
lowing statement, which We find in the
Louisville Democrat Of the 22d ult:
King state. tha, be was tbs man who
killed Pre>lden, Lincoln. lie says tha,
he entered the theatre as any other per
son, purchasing ticket and paving for 1t.
A, the appointed time ha entered the pri
va,e box, in Fnrd'. theatre, Washington,
where MI Liucon was, and he sho, him
with a single barrel pistol. which he lei
fall AT the time be leaped from the box
He gives as bis object for using single
barrel pistol that be was compelled 10
leave it behind him. and if it had been
revolver those in the box might have used
It against him. Lie further says that after
he shot the President and leaped froui .he
box, he passed by several persons, but one
of whom he knew. Miss Laura Keene and
she did not know him. According TO his
statement, J. Wilkes Booth. who it is said
was the murderer Of Lincoln. WAS in the
rear Of the theatre waiting with hoises-
From the vicinity Of Ford's theatre, he
states that lie went TO lte residence Of
Secretary Seward, and, after forcing an
emit ance, be MADE an attack upon the
Secretary himself, cutting him IN the
throat with bowie knife. He says that
after young Seward WAS knocked down,
the old man begged no. to be murdered
and that he struck the blow 10 silence him.
His onl = regret seems 10 be thss be id
not kill the secretary. lie says that the
Statement. published in the papers that
there we're two persons in tie affair. Is
false, as liz is the man who shot the Presi-
dent and made the attack upon Secretary
Seward. lie SAYS iha, there was another
person in the affair who has not been ap
prehenaed and who was to have killed
Stanton, bur he failed to fulfill his pledge
In regard to Boosh. he says ,na' Bo"th
had nothing to do with tie killing. with
the exception of assisting him 10 escape
tom The city Ct Washington. lie gives
IN his written statement, which is now III
the hands of the uii sry, the route he par
sued after leaving Washington. He SAYS
that tha man killed in the barn, and who
is said to have been Boob IS a prisoner
who escaped from the Ohio prison. He
claims TO have, in company with Booth.
gone from Washington to Canada, and
from thence 10 The !slauG Of Cuba. He
states that his OF je"l in returning to the
| nit ed States WAS for the purpose of re,
Confederate States.
In esari 10 Mrs Surratt, who vas exc.
cnted as Cne of The copspiraiors, he says
that she knew nothing Of the conspiracy
The parties who planned the affair, three
Of whom have been heard o., met regular
iy at The house of Mrs. Su'rat,, bu. she
knew nothing Of thei' designs. lie says
that he was stopping at the house Mrs.
SurFatt some ten 0: twelve DAYS previous
to the execution of the plot.
There are two prisoners now in the Jail,
Liewelyn and Grimes, who ssy that they
b, that the tale has been coucocted for the
purpose of getting the three released from
the charges now agains, them, and have
'he;n turued over 10 The military auibori
tes
THE above statement was made to Gems
,I~ff G. Davis and Watkins at the jaIl
Tuesday. a'ler having been related to ,w .
OF hree of the prisoners and policeman
l,igh. Finding that his staleuen, was
iiktIy to gel hiT into very serious diff
cust,. King determined to put An end 10
lis miserable existence He asked the
privilege OF having small Pc, knife, which
VA, granted him With this he opened
the veins of the LEFT arm, and would have
bled TO death had il not been that the AZ,
tempt was discovered by his cell mate and
an alarm given. We Yesterday psii a
visit 20 King in his cell ard found him
lu" low 70 speak. The alarm in regard 10
his attempt to commit suicide vas given
about i O'Clock in the morning, after he
had blet for several hours.