The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-04-22
notwithstanding aud Reliable
Testimony.


WAsHtNGroN, April 10.
The evidence taken by the house judiciary
committee relative to the discovery and
of John II. Surratt Is just made
public, as officially reported before that
committee.
IL appcars In the evidence of l.. !. Nc
MILAN. surgeon of the steamer peruvian,
plying between Montreal n Liverpool,
that Surratt came ON board IN september,
1865. and was introduced to him updcr the
name Of Mccarthy that becoming well ac-
uuaintcd In q few days, Surratt confessed
to him that he had been from the begin
ming In the Confederate states service,
carving dispatches between Washington
and Richmond, and also rs far as Montreal
that he aud Booth had planned at first the
abduction OF President Lincoln that, how
ever. they thought they could not succeed
in that way. or they thought II was
necessary to change their plan. Aiter
this. before the assassination, Surratt was
in Montreal. when he received a let
ter from Booth, ordering him i'm
mediatcly to Washington; that II
was necessary for him to act aud
act promptly, and he was to leave Montre-
mi Immediately for Washington, but he told
me he came aS far as Elmira, in the State of
New York. and from that place tclegraphed
to New York 20 find out whether Booth had
already left for Washington, and he was
answered that he had. lie did not tell me
whether he had gone further than Elmira.
The next place he spoke to me Of was ST
Adams. Vt. where he said he ar
rived early one morning at breakfast time,
and went to a hote | there for breakfast.
while he was sitting there he heard several
talking about an assassination, and he IN
uuired what was up. They asked him If he
Ia 80 H..... sluV npn.flnnf tNHpln had
been assassinated. lie said, al did not be-
lieye it., because the story was too
good to be true On chat a
gentleman pulled out a newspaper
and showed it to him. lie
opened Il ald saw his lame as Il OF the
assassins. lie said this unnCrved him so
much that the paper fell out of his hands.
He Immediately left the room and walked
ont, and rs he was going out through the
house he heard another party say that sur
raft must have been, or was ut the time in
st. Adams, because such a person (mcn-
tioning the persons Nance had found a
pocket handkerchief on the street with
Surratt's name on it. He told me he
actually looked in his pocket and found
that he had lost his pocket handkerchief.
From that place he went to Canada, and
was concealed there from April to Septem-
Der, when he was on board the ship. He
called me aside and again commenced to
talk about the assassination, and one thing
or other. 1t was in the evening, and we
were alone together. and he took out
his revolver. which lie kept in
his pocket all the time, and pointed
it to the heavens, and said he: 81 hope
and wish to live Just a few years more.
Two years more viii do me. and then | shall
90 back to the United States. and | shall
serve Andrew johnson rs Abraham Lin
coin has been served" | asked him why,
and he answered because he has been
the cause of my mother being hung" DR..
Mcmillan further t%cstilies that he arrived
in Liverpool on September p, 1860, and
went before the American Consul, Mr.,
wild. and made affidavit to the above facts,
An official letter from Consul Wild shows
that this affidavit caused the commence
ment of the pursuit of Surratt, which re-
suited in his capture in n little less than Il
year from that time.