The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-10
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Mira, surTatps Prosecutors and De
tenders,

Mira, SurTatrS Prosecutors and De-
tenders,
Is0e that a sensation has been Gre
ated relative TO Mrs. Surrstt at this
late day by the announcement that O.
monument will be erected over her
remains, and that Brick POmeroy,
who believed that she was murdered,
is engineering the movement. "Pom
eroy points 10 tho fact that tho mem
bers OF tho military commits
sion that condemned Mrs. Surratt
to death are all dead except
Holt, and that he, residing in the sub.
urbs eff Washington, is almost crazed,
and that tho majority of those who arc
dead committed seicide, proof, no
claims, that they saw the injustice of
the sentence" The amiablo Pomoroy
Is entirely mistaken, and his state
ments are not only wild but untrue.
Major Gonsrsl David NJ, Hunter was
the president of that commission; Gen
oral Lew Wallace, our latO minister to
Turkey, was another. so was General
Augustus V. kautz, the noted cay.
airy leader. General James A.
Elken, Of the quartermaster's depart
mont of the army, Albion Z.
Howe, Robert y. Foster and Thomas
NJ. Harris and Colopols Charles II
Thompkina nnd ID. b. Clendenim
were members. These men composed
the commission that tried and con-
demned Mrs. Surratt 20 death along
with the other cOnspirAtOra. 4 malorl-
" of them are still in tho land of the
tNvrlH tod ].
have passed over TO tho other shore
did not die by their own hands. TX
President Johnson passed. away "like
one who wraps tho drapary OF
his couch abOrt him aud lies
down TO pleasant dreams.n
Judge Advocate General Holt, who
conducted the prosecution, lives in
Washington City, few doors from
hearty, vigorous in intellect aud good
for man years TO come, though !
| should judge that ho had passed his
three score years and ten. Tho Hon.
john Bingham, assistant Judge ad-
vooate general, whom Ben Butler
used to twit so numerically on the
floor Of the House of Representatives
| for changing an innocent woman is
on his return from Japan, whore no
has been the American minister for
upward of 10 years. | do not know
the whereabouts OF the other assistant,
Colonel ii, l.. Burnett, OF Indiana.
Let Ms SEQ about some OF tho other
noted characters in that famous state
trial of 20 years ago. Reverdy John
son, OF Maryland, eX-nttorneY-Eener
and senator and afterward minister To
England, lont his eloquent voice in DO.
half of Mrs. SuTratt, assisted by Colo
mel Fred A. Aiken aud John l.. CLAMP.
1T. The latter 10 tho only ono living
OF that famous trio. JOHNSON died full
Of honors. Aiken became noted
journalist in Washington. lie died
suddenly few years ago and was
laid away in the beautiful Oak HI
cemetery by his brethren Of the
press on New Years day. General
Tom Ewing, OF KSns0s and Ohio, the
cousin of James q. Blaine
was counsel for Arnold and
o'Laughlin, who was SEN
to the Dry Tortugas, Walter S. Cox
assisted him. He Is now judge on the
bench OF tho supreme court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and the grinniug
assassin OF another president wa,
tried and condemned TO death In hi,
court. Fred Stone, of Maryland, q
bitter secessionist lawyer, defonde
Harold and Mudd. lie saved tho NECK
of the latter. Mudd returned from the
Dry Tortugas to his home, In Southern
Maryland, and became, strange t.
say, Republican in politics. HO died
Z lew years ago. Doster, Philadei
phia lawyer, tried to keep the ropC
away from the necks of Payne anC
Atzerodt. General Hancock was mas
ter OF ceremonies on that ira gic oooa
sion, assisted by General Hartranft.
They are still living, arc not cra1ed
and, presume, lose no sleep in think.
Ing OF the affair. Like good soldiers
they obeyed orders. - (Philadelphll
Times,