Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-12-28
Mrs. Surratt's Prosecutors ana
Defenders.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
] see that sensation has beer.
created relative to Mrs. Surratt at
this late day by the announcement
that monument will be erected over
her remains, and that Brick Pomeroy,
who believes that she was murdered,
il engineering the movement. Pom
eroy 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, re
siding ia the suburbs Of Washington,
il almost crazad, and that the major.
Is Of those who are dead committed
suicide, proof, he claims, that they
saw the injustice OF the sentence"
The amiable Pomeroy is entirely mis-.
taken, and his statements are not
only wild hut untrue. Mai-Gen.
David VI. Hunter was the president
OF that commission: Gen. Lew Wallace,
our late Minister 10 Turkey, was an
other. So was General Augustus V.
Kautz. the noted cavalry leader.
Gen. James A. Ekin, OF the Quarter
masters Department OF the Army, Al
bion y. Howe, Robert :. Foster and
Thomas NJ. Harris, and Coils. Chas. ii.
Thompkins and y. r. Clendenim 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
ptssed over 10 the other shore didnot
die by their own hands. Ex-President
Johnson passed away "like one who
wraps the drapery of his couch about
him and lies down TO pleasant dreams.
Judge Advocate-General Holt, who
conducted the prosecution, lives in
Waehinrton city, few doors from the
Capitol building. lleishale and hearty,
vigorous in intellect. and goodfo many
wears 10 come, though should Judge
that he had passed his three score
years and ten. Hon. John A. Bling
ham. assistant Judge Advocate-Gen'
eral. whom Ben. Butler use TO twit so
numerically on the floor OF the House
OF Representatives for changing an in
noecnt woman, il on his return from
,Iapan. where he has been the Ameri-
can minister for upwards OF ten years.
do not know OF the whereabouts oil
the other assistant, Col. III. IL. Bur.
nett OF Indiana.
Let ,,s see about some OF the other
noted characters IN that famous State
trial OF twenty years ago. Reverdy
johnson, Of Maryland, ex-attorney.
general and senator, and atterwari
minister to England. lent his eloquent
voice in behalf of Mrs. Surratt, assist.
al by Col. Fred, A. Aiken and John Il,
Clampitt. 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 a few years
ago. and was laid away in beautiful
Oak Hill cemetery by his breth'
rem of the press on New Years day.
Gen. Tom Ewing, of Kansas and Ohio,
the cousin OF James q. Blaine, was
counsel for Arnold and OIaughlin,
who were sent to the Dry Tortugas.
Walter S. Cox assisted him. Heisnow
a Judge on the bench of the Supreme
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, a bitter secessionist lawyer,
defended Harold and Mudd. Hesaved
the neck ofthe latter. Mudd returned
from Dry Tortugas to his home in
Southern Maryland and became,
strange to say, a Republican in politics.
lie died few years ago. Doster,. a
Philadelphia lawyer, tried to keep the
rope away from the necks OF Payne
and Atzerodt. Gen. Hancock was mas
ter OF ceremonies on that tragic oeca-
sion. assisted by Gen. Hartranft. They
are still living, and are not crazed, and.
presume lose no sleep in thinking OF
the affair. Like good soldiers, they
obeyed orders.