The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-10

detective officers In his own land, and
the swiftly changing scenes of interest
and excitement in this active nation,
had almost removed him from our
minds, when, thousands OF miles
away, across oceans and seas, and ma
tional boundaries, among a people,
not one in a hundred thousand OF
whom hado ever heard OF him, his
identity was discovered, He had
been serving for some time in the
/ Papal Zouaves. under the assumed
name of John Watson. His. compa-
nv was quartered at Veroli,. one Of
the frontier towns of the Apprentices
This sequestered village would seem
to have been thelast place i'm which
to look for the fugitive from Justice
Still, Gen. Rufus Ring, our Minister
at Rome, heard of his whereabouts,
and COMMUNICATIVE fact to the au-
thorities at home. They at once di-
rected his arrest. Cardinal Antonelli
promised the General all the facilities
in his power for insuring Surratt's ar
rest. A few days after, as we are in
formed by a correspondent of the
London Post, the Cardinal showed
Gen. King al series of telegraphic in
structions sent from Rome, and the
replies, also by telegraph, of the au-
thorities at Veroli and Velletrl. They
recorded the order to arrest Surratt,
alias; Watson; the successive steps
taken in compliance with the order;
the actual arrest; the conveyance to
prison; the removal from prison I'M
der guard offiFe soldiers OF ms COM
pany; but the series. closed with the
announcement that when thus LED out,
Surratt, alias Watson, made a sudden
dash from his guards, jumped over a
precipfce more than one hundred feet
high, and, though hotly, pursued by
fifty Zouaves, was enabled, from the
fact of their preferring a more ciTcui-
tous route, to get clear across thefron-
tier into the Italian territory. s3ft
The foregoing is the. story told by
the Roman officials, OF course we do
not vouch for its accuracy General
King. announced the escape to Mr.
Marsh, our Minister at the Italian
Court, and orders were given TO watch
all the seaports. tSurratt, however,
managed to get out of the kingdom,
and had reached Egypt, where he was
arrested by order of Mr.. Hale, our
Consul General, and taken to Com
stantinople, whence he will doubtless
be sent to this country. ~ Efia
It will not be pre- judging Surratt's
case to refresh the memory of our
readers with the connection he sus-
tanned to the assassination, compiled
as they shall be from the sworn testi-
mony that convicted his confederates
in crime. - -
John Eel. Surratt is single man,
about twenty eight years old; he is
spare built, i've feet ten inches high,
and has the appearance OF an intelli-
gent man. His education was partly
obtained IN the Philadelphia High
School, but finished in the st. Charles
College, Maryland. his father had
given name to the village OF Surratts-
vile, ten miles from Washington
City, in Virginia. His mother, at the
time of the assassination, owned a
hotel in thatylliage, though she lived
In Nv Washington. the son boarding with
her, when not passing back and forth
.stoSh VA W. -" A"A0A ~ ~
and the northern rebel baseaof ope-
ratlons, Ganada, oa ~
Un the 9th and Ith, OF April, 1868,
was seen In montreal bygWltr
ness Sanford Conover, corresponds :
ent OF the New ork Tribune, In the
room of Jacob Thompson, Financial
Agent OF the Confederacy. He hada
Just brought dispatches from Rich
n1ond, one, from Benjamin, Secretary
OF State, and one In cipher from
President Davis. This witnessfC Con-
pYer, though a Northern mar, had
been compelled to serve the rebel
cause in Virginia, but had escaped.
and in Canada established himself In
the confidence of Thompson; and thus
he learned the nature of the dis
patches brought up by Surratt.
Thompson laid his hand on them
md said. tThis nakas tba thino ali i