The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-27

all assertions which Lloyd has made in regard
TO this AFFAIR."
don't know vhet Mrs surratts business was
several other persons were there; Nj. Jarvo was
GST5t WAS 9yeT drank good deal snd went home
ieft snrrattsvilie was 40 drnl r had ~ &
orunkenness has the effect 70 make me forget things
bad aSa ~ nR R ~ 5f
bar At The house. Sd sH oI kept
1 was my own best customer; the sun was up
ald b no! Is Ak my mind upon anything that happened
Harold ana B0oth came there thss niehaei Ssa
conversation. 6nt haye detailed q; put no con6.
been killed, because thought he was drunk The sol
what bad happened, became frightened and went |
70 drq1kIng 90 not fscoect exactly what told the
old and Booth had not been there's did not wish TO
knew nothing about IL Jarso ao tBee @sS ssSe STsf ssa
enough In this case % make Us both rich II would
knew nothing about them; | ackn2wledge went to |
acknowledge that drunkenness burs my memory.
Sng makes me iqges thng bad not been on
70 give it up; butt broke through think took
Witness resumed and in answer 70 certain questions
ygheh he Ist eame un a6es moi or wss IN me pse
staggered and fell or not when talking to Mrs sur.
sober enough to dive himself nun nonie' was
By the Court--Liquor has a tendency to make me
never do drink for fear should forget facts that
'iS BY Mr.. Bfadiey-Many things happen when am
was At il O'clock when met Mrs suTrat ia unon n%H
BY Mr.. Caring eon-on the Tuesday referred TO Mr..
know that weichman heard the conversation. ~ NO'
This was the wretched tool employed by the
War Department to enable it to hang Mrs.
Surratt. He 'took several drinks on Thurs
day, April 49," He returned from Marlboro
drunk, ON the afternoon of the 18th; was so
drunk when he met Mrs. Surratt that he
"does not reeollect whether he staggered and
fell down when talking TO her, 4" and ''laid
down before she Left" was so drunk that he
Thought Harold was drunk'' when he,
Harold Git was Booth before), 'stold him
that the President had been killed." was
so maudlin the next morning when the
soldiers arrived that he became frightened,
and went to drinking again; was so COM
pletely saturated with liquor afterwards
that he doesn't "recollect exactly what he
told the detective, " but thinks he told him
falsehood. And at last this self-confessed
inebriate owns to a confusion of memory,
forgetfulness, general chaos of all his facul-
ties that causes him to "fear when he goes
to testify in court, that he should forget facts
\ that he should testify to-" But man named
l Cattingham told him that if he should testify
he would 'receive the protection of the Gov
\ ernment," ," and a detective named Jarvo said
''there was money enough in this case to
| make them both rich if he would tell what he
knew" and the poor drunkard, frightened by
|
an accomplice, and encouraged by Stanton's
| emissaries to hope that he might escape this
accusation, and replace, at the same time, the
money that he had spent in dissipation,
trumped up story that, having once rehearsed
| it at former trial, he gets sober enough to
repeat at this one.
When the valueless nature of this testimony
| is thus exposed the fragment of Booths
diary that has appeared may assist us to
better knowledge of what was really intended,
up to the last moment preceding the assassi-
| nation, by all the parties concerned. "Until
| to-day" Booth writes the very night after the
deed was done, nothing was ever thought of
| sacrificing to our country's wrongs. For six
months we worked to capture but, our cause
being almost lost, something great and decisive
must be done. But our failure was owing to
others who did not strike for their country
! with heart" Further on he says:--'T have
greater desire, and almost mind to return
| to Washington, and in a measure to clear my
name, which l know that can do.''
The fact that rope ''sixteen or twenty feet
long" and a monkey-wrench, were left
! at Lloyd's house five or six weeks before the
tragedy, and not called for by Harold and
Booth, with the other articles, when they
stopped on their fight from Washington, is a
very significant indication that an abduction
was contemplated Might not this rope
have been intended to confne a prisoner F!
and is it not fair to suppose that the wrench
was to be used in case of any accident to the
carriage in which the prisoner was to be
borne away? What at last, did Booth mean
when he wrote that the failure to alb
duct ''was owing to others ?" And upon
what did he base even momen-
tary confidence that he could return to
Washington and "clear his name 2" Who
were these others who did not strike with
the heart that he desired Not Paine, or
Harold, or Atzerott for one of them, at
least, struck as boldly, if not as successfully,
as Booth did at the last. What were the asso-
Citations upon which the chief assassin founded,
or could found, hope of palliationY Surely
not his association with the common accom-
plices who have been convicted and hung.
Was there then some higher influence that he
could have either dared to preserve him Cf
that were possible) from the consequences of
his crime, or forced to share his obloquy,
perhaps his fate Are there those living who
were aware of and connived at the proposed
abduction of the President, although they
might not have been privy to the assassina-
tion itselfH Where are the missing Leaves of the
diary? for until those are produced, or until
the memory and the conscience of some one
who saw and read them render their secret to
the world, the conspiracy that led to the
murder of Abraham Lincoln will still remain
a mystery.
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