Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-06-28
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| WASHINGTON, ID. c., June 20 The Bslti-
more American has the following remarkable
interview with Mrs. Tonry, who was Miss
Ann Surraft, the daughter Of Mrs. Surrati
who Was hung while Gen. Hancock was in
command Of the War Department of Wash
ingtou:
| Reporter-Mrs. Tonry, the democratic par
ties are asserting that the part played by Gen.
Hancock in the execution was altogether
honorable anu fair, and that he did whatever
he could to save your mother. Now is that
true.
Mrs. Tonry hesitated for few minutes to
answer, and the recollection ofthe past events
set med very painful to her. Finally she
said that such reports were not true. and add
ed that neither she nor any of her family h ad
| any good feeling for General Hancock.
| Reporter--Do Won believe that Gen. Han
cock on that occasion acted At q friend tow ards
you and your mother?
Mrs. Tonry-I do not. You could not
call his conduct exactly brutal. but do be-
lieve that he wished for the execution of my
mother, and would not so much Is have lifted
his finger to prevent it. Myself and my
mother were arrested at the same time and
imprisoned in the Old Capital. Subsequent
~ l was released and she was taken to the
Arsenal. had to get my passes to see her
from Secretary Stanton and then take them
to be countersigned by Gen. Hancock.
saw him dozen times or more, and he never
expressed to me the slightest sympathy with
my mother. II he was anxious TO prevent
the execution he did not do or say anything
that l know of, and think was the person
to be informed about it.
Reporters l understand it, you went to
Gen. Hancock on the morning of the execu-
ton at his headquarters at the Metropolitan
Hotel in Washington, and had long inter
view there. Can't you tell me what then &C.
cured?
Mrs. Tonry-I cannot l cannot answer
that question without giving more thought to
those matters than can possibly do at this
moment.
Reporter-You can at least tell me whether
the impression formed upon your mind then
was that Gen. Hancock was the friend Of
yourself and your mother.
Mrs. Tonry-Un an emphatic and excited
tone,) No, sir; he oas not If were to
tell you all that happened and all that was
said at that interview, it would be very much
to Gen. Hancock's discredit.
Reporter-You know, then, that all the
stories as to Gen. Hancock's endeavoring to
save Mrs. Surratt are falsehoOds.
Mrs. Tonry-That is about the fact.
As this juncture Professor Tonry came in
and the conversation above reported was SUBJ
stantially repeated. The question was again
put to Mrs. Tonry as to what occurred
between her and Gen. Hancock during the
interview on the morning of the execution,
but she still refused to go into the details,
and the Professor remarked that 1.-The truth
will come out sooner or later. My wife has
already told eou that it will do no credit to
Gen. Hancock. and know that is the fact
For my part l wish that he had been in the
Sandwich Islands sooner than that my party,
the democratic party, had nominated him for
the presidency. l repeat to you that his con-
necton with the murder Of Mrs. Surratt was
no credit to him, and that he deserves the
title of her executioner'