The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-04-23
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IoseAnDony DsGDeo The Uo0oe JoAls1aSy
cenDattee.
. Ths evidences taken By the House Judiciar
u Committee relative to the discovery ~
rarsait Of John b. Surratt 10 Just maAs - 3
Id, - officially reported before that Commits
Ne, and contains testimony embracing par
tal confession from Surfstt - TO his con-
plicity in the assassination plot, and OF BIZ
nuGk elsyueU1 Negueelees9 80 - -,
s,sassie.iion took Plsss. . = spgs... d aro =
he steamer Peruvian, plying between Moa'
tsdl "a Liverpool, shes 6sss1M 49, -
board in September, 1855, booked for Liver
POOL, ed that9 beesuief iatimats, b en-
iessed 70 McNhan whe - wss. The ~.
uleulensai evidence, together With the odscscs
cprrespondence Of the State Departments win
onr Foreign Ministers and Consuls, onow
that tbs confession Of identity 70 MCMILLAN
vas the original and sole cause which event
ually led to Surratt's arrest. This corrooo-
ntion leaves no room to doubtshe evioenee.
81. ucMillan testi6ss that Serreft csme -
boA tn Pesuvisa = Moutrenl % Sees IL
1885, and vas introduced TO him under the
name of Mccarthy, that becoming veiiae
uuainted in few days, Surratt confessed 10
him ths, he had been from the beginning 10
| the Confederate States service, carrying as
| PATCHES between Warrington and Richmond,
! and aIso a far % Montreal; tkat he and
Booth 1 ad planned q Erss the abduction Of
| Abraham Lincoln that, however, they
| tSoushs they could not succeed in that way,
| or SSey thoaeht il wss necessary TO change
| their plnn. After this, before the Asssssipa-
ton. Surrsti was in Montreal, when be re-
ceived a letter from Booth, ordering him i'm.
mediatsly 70 Washington that it was neces-
sary TOR him TO act, aud act promptly, and he
| was TO leave Montreal immediately for Wash
! ington. He did not tell me he came TO WASH
inEtcn, bat he told me be came - tar a. Elms--
| re-, in the state OF New York, and from that
place autographed TO New York TO hnd out
whether Booth bad left for Washington, and
he was answered that he had. he did not
tell whether be had gone further than Elmrs-
The next place be spoke to nue. of was st.
Adams, Vi, where he said be arrived early
one morning at breakfast time, and went to .
hotel there Tor breakfast. While be Was sit
ting there he heard several talking about an
assassinanon. aud he inquired what was up
They asked him if he did not knov that Pres
/ ident Lincoln was asssssnsted. tie said, 81
II did not believe it, because the story was toe
| good TO be true Ga that . gentleman
pulled out newspaper and showed il 70 him
He opent il and saw his name as one OF the
assassins. de said this unnerved him sc
much thai The paper tell out OF hrs hands
He Immediately left the room and walked
out, and Ms be was gong out through thu
house he heard another party say that Sur
raft must have been, or was al thst time, il
ST. Albans, because such person tmeDtion
ing the person . namel had foHnd . poke
handkerchief on the street with SurrAa
name on it. He told me be actually lookeC
in his pocket and found tina, HI
had lost bis pocket handkerchief. From
, that place he went TO canada, and Vas con
T cealed there from April TO September. Wher
he was OF board the ship be rallied me ssid'
| \ and again commenced Ia talk abont che as
sassinsticr. and one thug or the other. 4
was 10 the evening, and We were alone to
gether, and be took out his revolver, whicl
be kept in his pocket all the time, and point
ed il to the heavens, and said he: II hop
and wish to live just q few yesrs more. Tw,
, years more will do me, and then | shall &
, back to the United States and shall serv
! Andrew johnson as Abraham Lincoln ha
| been served" asked i'm why, and b
answered: because be has been the caus
Of my mother being hung" DR.. McMilla
further tesiiiies that be arrived in Liverpool
on September ~. 1865, aud went before Vi
, American Consul, Mr. Wild, and made aida
Wit to the above fscts- An official letie
, from Consul Wild shows that this aft dAvi
caused the commencement Of the pursuit G
Surrsit, which resulted in bis capture in It'll
. lees than year from that time.