The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-12-14
Selettcd 9eliscellapp,
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
TIE ASA SSEN, i. III. SURESATT.
His Completely nMr. Iincoln's Murder
How he Escaped His Discovery near
Rome--.Finnl Arrest in Egypt.


The announcement n few days since by
telegraph, from Alexandria, in Egypt, that
john II, Surratt, the last of the immediate
couspirators who plotted aud executed the
assassination of President Lincoln, had
inst been arrested IN tllnt distant land
seemed marvellous il not providenlial A
year and half had elapsed since the fatal
tragedy trauspired, and he had not been
seen or heard Of notwithstanding the Sec
lretary eE War had publicly offered a reward
of S25, 900 for hiS~app pptehension. lie had
escaped the observation Of his many ac-
quaintauces and the vigant eyes of d9ttct-
i've officers in his own land, and tho swiftly
changing scenes of interest and excitement
in this active nation, had almost removed
him from olr mipds, When, thousands Of
miles away, across oceans, and seas, and
national boundaries, among q people, not
one in a hundred thousand of whom had
ever heard of him, and perhaps none Ind.
| ever seen him, his identity was discovered, !,
He had been serving for some time in the
Papal Zouaves, uhdor the assumed natne OF
John Watson. His company was quartered
at Veroli, one Of the frontier towns Of the
| Appcnines, THIS seqpestercd village would
seem to have beet, tie last place in which
Ito look for the fugitive from justice.
Still, General Rufus King, our Minister at
| Rome, heard Of his whereabouts, and com
municated the fact to the authorities at
home. They at once directed his arrest.
CardiDal AntonelI promised the General all
the facilities in his power for iusuring Sur.
Informed by Correspondent OF the london
Past, the Caraihal showed Gen, King a
series Of telegraphic instructions sent from
! Rome, and tue replies, also BY telegraph,
of the authorities at Veroli and Velletri.
Thoy recorded the order to arfest Surratt,
i alias Watson; the successive steps taken
| in compliatce with the order; the actual
arrest ; the conveyance toiprison the re-
Emoval from prison under guard of five
soldiers Of his itdhpany but the series
closed with the announcement that who's
| thus led out, Surratt alias Watson, made a
sudden dash from his guards, JUMPED oHor
la precipice more than .one hundred feet
4 high. and, though hoty pursued by fifty
I Z1aaves, was enabled from the factO OF their
4 perferring a more circuitous route to gel
ielear across the frontier into thu Italian
territory.
| The foregoing is the story toll by the
Roman officials OF course wedo notvouoh
for its accuracy. General King announced
\ the escape to Mfr. Marsh, our Minister al
the Italian Court, aud orders we're, given to
watch all the seapOrts. Surratt, However
managed to get out OF the kingdomih and
had reached Egypt, where he was arrested
by order of Mr. Hale, our Consul General
and taken 10 Constantinople, whence he will
doubtless be sent to this copntfyw01 fwa
1t will not be pre.judging SWratts case
to refresh the memory of otIr readers with
4 the connection he sustlined to the assas-
LII. AZ. i faa l,at. fns
sworn testimony that convicted his eoaled'
crates it crime. y ~ a;lA t11 nr
Jdhh H. SWratt is single man, about
twenty-eiglt years oll he is spare built,
five feet ten inches high, and has the ep
lAi6arance OF an intelligent man. His edu
catibh was partly Obtained in the Philadel
phia High School but finished ~ The 81
Charles College Maryland. HIS tatlier had
given nume IA the village of Snrratisvilse
lenmiles from Washington City, ia Virginia
His mother. at tho time OF the assassination
owned -a,-hatel ia that village, though shS
hved sshingtuh the son boarding viii
her, when not passing back and foith be
tween The rebel capital Riehmond, and the
northern febai base of OPERATIONS Shhad9
On tie 9Th aud 7tl OF April, 1868, SIR
/ ratt was seeii in Montreal, by Witness Sln'
ford Cohover, a correspondent OF the New
Y orb Tribune in ther Of jacob fhoinp
son, Financial Agent Of tho cpniedofacy
lIehad just, hrongh lrom Rich
mohd one from l3euianiN, Secretaty Of s ate
and one in cipher from President Davis
! This Witness Conoyer Trough a Norihert
man, had been compelled to serve the rshe
cause ia Virginia, bat had escaped aud II
Canada established mnscltin the celhidenc'
} Of Thompson AMI iims be te9rnea me ma
turs Of the dispatches hrapght up by Sur
hlralt. I" ThompsOn laid his lA] on then