New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-03
NETWORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1867


dondery after some conversation told the prisoner he
had been telling good deal and said ielt dp9t
OF me- travelling under his correct name and ASKED I'm
10 give his right name Inc looked around. and tLrn
whispered IN my ear, My name Is Surratt Suriitt
went ashore % on 80 minutes aiterward heIore gohs
ashore the prisoner asked FOR drink and woke INC
parketrer. and we all three took nlhk an
ior me barkeepcrs 10 help customer to inc ,uinh
asked for, and net to place decanter before mn al ~
tins Instance the barkeepeF put the bottle up ana SglI
poured ont and drank half tuInbler of raw brandy
then treated ana the harkeeper treaed ana Surlas ~ al
times took The quantity the prisoner then nted
and the ship went on 20 Liverpool; next saw the prs
on tho Wednesday following at my own house IN
Birkcnhead, opposite Liverpool; when he called upon
me nc asked me Ia show HIN the place he had been com
nehGed 10 go 10 dld 80 anu Ineh eacu ZAP anu lua
telling day that he Booth and others had planned
the abduction OF President Lincoln he said they could
not carry out the plan OF abduction, and had TO abandon
straninea by Mr. Mer1icl:-I do not remember Of
any date that surIatt gave except two occaon,
when said lie in Richmond week before 1t fell,
and when he said he In Washington the day " the
assasnatOn; he merely told me the abduction nan mad
failed there circumstances that could NIX the line
when the plan of abduction failed; Surait told me he
in Richmond. and that he was In Montreal the week
Of the ASSASSINATION and he received letter from Booh
that il had been necessary change their plan and act
promptly; he did not tell me what change Of plan that
letter referred to; he left immedltely atsrward ana
said he reached Emira Thursday before the asSslJ
alton; he said he teegraphed from Elmra TO Booth ~
NewYo TO know If he Booth HAD gone 10 Washington;
he did not say whether he went further than Eola OF
not all remember his saying about ST. Adams was that
he there few days after the assSSlhat0ni tne pls
oner told all have related, but he never told me
anything connected with the incidents OF the atsas
sinafon in Washington did ne ever say lhab
he was In Washington the day OF the ASSASSINATION
made affidavit 30 these facts in Lyerooi on the oay
after we landed In that affidavit said SuIratt tod ine
that he and Booth had cOncOcted plan to abdct Preh
dent Lincoln. ami that while IN Montreal he received
note from Booth ordering him O Washington, for 1t was
necessary To change their plans and 10 act promptly
went to the United states Consul IN Liverpool anu naIe
my statement and he took II down-not cerbdia but IN
substance never told any ondha Suratt said ne hst
VT before Justice Nelly In Liverpool and was before me
Judiciary Committee last winter; have been here bec
day or two ago asked the Marshal for some money and
got it after we arrived at Liverpool on me tsrva
cur after which left the company voluntarily medicine
Is my profession; before that was ihefcnant,
hlsiless; left the business Of merchant because
did not Ike IL; was practieing medicine III In
knoxville. Eastern Township; do not know man
named James Fuller in LeDnOXville; lett Lenn0N'le
10 better my professional business; | never had any
Then removed from IennoXville and went 10 Manson
ye aud there 10 or ~ months at the request OF
there until went sea- do not know a man named
Mr. Dudley; offered my services Tor purposes oi
hon with me- and came from Canada with the state
Department pays ny expenses here but or no ether
been here have received $40 $3.50 from the state De-
paItmeut aud slOo from the Marshal herc after leayiS
the leamship company stad ~ home some tD"b an"
then vent West, and about TO open AN ,n =, 1n
when was called away to come d9S , n" We
not a summons to appear pcfon The Committee
on Judclory. | was not summoned lTfOre
The Committee, = went to the House Of Representatives
one dav friend and WAS introduced 10 MT e0rge
s boutwell, who asked 10 testify before the judiciary
commune and consented; J do remember the
times the conversation IA regular order these CONVEX
saona were held different times during the voyage;
on Tho last day uf the voyage he told some OF the
things had told me during the voyage aud added the
remark about Andrew johnson; can't say positively
what he did sny nor can / tell the order IN which he
made these revelations he did not tell me who ne Vas
during the voyage; suspected who no was, bnt did not
ask Linn until the last day; did not ash him half dozen
uucstlos the whole voyage he seemed 10 DC com
nunicatiyc aud telling all Of his own accord; what
surrat stated that nc had shot AZ The escaping Union
prisoners; he said they 'Surrars party lett
Them ard went un their way; he sad they
stopped at the and shot the Yankees; have told
that circumstance e. more than sixty people since OctO-
her 1858: Mr. Wildng said che Government Was not
going To prosecute sUratt did not think II necessary to
keep tie matter secret and told u 10 several parties one
evening understood surrajt say that he was IN COM
pany with Rebel regiment, and they went into IN orch
ard fruit, and while there heard the ticking OF
telegraph instrument and In searh OF house near by
they fonnd Union soldier In the garrett and with =.
teicr ph iqFirument, ana they took me man a1 Ao.
cnted him mao. the affidavit because consdcred nat
the crime wa not ST tr s ga9st society Dl aga'S
knew who he when went 10 Mr. " lding the Vice
Consul hId S Scrf tp ,b SuI uater uu no, w Tlsa
told me after made the affidavit that large reward
was offered for Surrat and said II any one was entitled
the reward for his arrest was entitled to 1t; have
stated that in this city never spched the amount OF
the reward said intended 10 claim the reward;
have never said any never told one that
SurTatt IN IlmiIa on the morning 0f Apri H. ana
that hc did not know Of the assassination until the morn
ing after never said Surratt first learned Of the asss
sinailOn in NewNork and Immediately went To Canada;
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sas~natio and that only regarded him a. political
offender aud would therefore aid him; never stated
that plan abduct the President was an individual
enterprise ot BgothH nave never std anythng COR
rary what have sald on tins stand nave sAld the
p pnS eyuc S speoc never told any one
my return to England that went ont with snratl
that repeated Surrats conversation to any ONE
neyer told any that had never stated any ot the
conversation with surratt made no affidavit IN Mon
heal; had conversation with Committeeman Potter
but made no affidavit; when surrat called upon at
Brkmhead made my AFFIDAVIT but j dd NOT teli sur
raft sO consented nj Surratts request 10 bear some
money for him from Canada TO Europe but that was AZ
ter Vice Wding had told me that snriatt would
friend in Montreal bnt did not get the money; upon the
rrtur OF my ship To Liverpool Surratt called To see me-
bee I'm stale ~ future rewards and pnnishmens; did
not take copy of the affidavit swore TO ut Liverpool;
know stephen r. Cameron who crossed In the Nova SEQ
tia with me.
The Court then al l2:i5 took a recess until O'Clock
Upon rcnssemblng, Paymaster George d. ~ Barton,
L. N was sworn and examined by Mr. Wilson la
December, 1865 attached 10 the United States
various points in the Mediterranean ! know that the
prloDer the bar was aboard our ship first saw hun
December o. 1885, when he brought aboard our ship
as prisoner at Alexandria, Egypt after taking mn, hm
aboard to Fort Malone, and from there to VIVA
Frsnca where found the Admiral, ana We're ordered
home stopping a Madeira for coal we came IN sig on
Cape Henry the 18th Of February and delivered The
pri,oncr he was dressed in the uniform of the Papal
loayes he went to A9sanda E P IRON MaS am%
arrived Malta In 10 days, ana were Ne days gong 10
AlcxaadI1a from Malta
Can't VIM. NJ Wermerskerch was sworn and examined
by Mr. CarrngtOn Was in the army In 1865 as an officer;
on Mon day night April IT, AT Mrs suriatts house;
Major H. ". Smith and two detectives named Samson
and Roach were with me- Mrs Surratt on that oc-
cason and afterward her at the Arsenal during the
trial OF the conspators at the Arsenal also saw man
whose name Payne. PurelE on the night OF Apiii
II We were nj Mrs Sirats house As minutes when
Payne came Witness described Pnynes dress rs here
toire described. Both OF Paynes boots were muddy,
and he looked though he had been sitting in the mud
wrn he came in he asked TO see Mrs. Surratt and upon
beng confronted with the latter, she raised her hands
aud sand before God she did not know Payne; Major
smith asked Mrs surratt II she knew Payne, and she de
nje ever seeing him: / heard conversation with
Mrs Snrrntf and the Otler