Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-29
THE LINCOLN CoNsPIRATORs.
Whereabouts of Mrs. Surratts Prosecu
tors and Defenders.

tors and Defenders.
/ see that a sensation is created relative
to Mrs. Surratt at this late day by the an
| nouncement that a monument will be
! erected over her remains, and that Brick
Pomeroy, who believes that she was muir
dered, is engineering the movement.
Pomeroy points to the fact that all the
members of the Military Commission that
condemned Mrs. Surratt to death are dead
except Holt. and that he, residing in the
suburbs OF Washington, is almost crazed,
and that the majority of those who are dead
committed suicide, a proof, he claims, that
| they saw the injustice of the sentence. :"
! The amiable Pomeroy is entirely mistaken,
and his statements are not only wild but
untrue. Major-General David N. Hunter
was the President of that commission
General Lew Wallace, our late Minister to
Turkey, was another. So was General Au-
gustus Y. kautz the noted cavalry leader.
General James A. Ekin of the Quartermas-
ter's Department of the Army; Albion Z.
Howe, Robert S. Foster and Thomas NJ.
| Harris and Colonies Charles II. TompklnS
aud d. II. Clendenin were members. These
men composed the commission that tried
and condemned Mrs. Surratt to death along
with the other conspirators. A majority
of them are still in the land of the living
and are noted men. Those who have
passed over TO the other shore did not die
| by their own hands. Ex-President John
son passed away like one who wraps the
drapery of his couch about him and lies
down to pleasant dreams Judge Advo-
cate General Holt, who conducted the pros
ecuhon, lives in Washington city a few
doors from the capitol building. He is
hale and hearty, vigorous in intellect, and
good for many years to come. though l
should judge that he had passed his three
score years and ten. Hon. John A. Bing-
ham, Assistant Judge Acknowledgement
whom Ben Butler used to twit SO unmerci-
fully on the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatives for hanging an innocent wo-
man, is on his return from japan, where
he has been the American Minister for up
wards Of ten years. | do not know of the
whereabouts of the other assistant, Colonel
II. L. Burnett, of Indiana. Let Us see
about some of the other noted characters in
Reyerdy Johnson, of Maryland, ex-Attor-
neyGeneral and Senator and afterward
Minister to England, lent his eloquent
voice in behalf of Mrs. Surratt assisted by
Colonel Fred A. Aiken and John l.. Clam
pitt The latter is the only one living of
that famous trio. Johnson died full of
hOnorS. Aiken became a noted journalist
in Washington. He died suddenly few
years ago and was laid away in beautiful
Oak Hill Cemetery by his brethren of the
press On New Years Day General Tom
Ewing, of Kansas and Ohio, the cousin Of
James G. Blaine, was counsel for Arnold
and 0 Laughlin, who were sent to the Dry
Tortugas. Walter S. Cox assisted him. He
IS now a Judge on the bench in the Su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia,
and the grinning assassin of another Presi-
dent was tried and condemned to death in
his Court Fred Stone, of Maryland, bit
ter secessionist LAWYER defended Harold
and Mudd. He saved the neck of the lat
ter. Mudd returned from the Dry Tortu-
gas to his home in Southern Maryland, and
became, strange to say, a Republican in
politics. He died few years ago. Doster,
a Philadelphia lawyer tried to keep the
rope away from the necks of Payne and
Atzerodt. General Hancock was master Of
ceremonies on that tragic occasion, assisted
by General Harranft. They are still liv-
ing, are not crazed, and, presume, lose no
sleep in thinking of the affair. Like good
soldiers they obeyed orders Philadelphia
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