The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-11

ton the name of O'Laughlin, Surratt
and Atzerodt, and / was informed that
O'Laughlin had given himself up. Find
ing that suspicion had conferred itself
upon those with whom l had been asso-
ciated, in conjunction with my betray-
al by Booth, l deemed it necessary in
justice not only to myself, but to those
with whom I had been formerly con-
nected, to state the whole truth, as en-
bodied in the statement made on the
18th of April in Marshal McPhalPs Of
flee, in Baltimore.
After my acknowledgment to the
foregoing facts / was taken into the
back part of the storehouse, my person
and baggage searched and property of
private nature confiscated, which to
this day has never been returned, al
though l have repeatedly fsked its
restitution. There was nothing found
of compromising nature among my
effects, because had no correspond
ence with anyone during the time that
I was employed by Mr.. Wharton.
l was then turned over to the mill
IdIN SoAtNCyNN W ca PAAS~A~
pen, where I remained during the best
part of the day without a morsel OF
| food and quizzed by some of the in
mates, who seemed to be void of both
reason and sense. In the afternoon l
was brought before the provost mar
shall at Fortress Monroe, when / re-
manned in the presence of its military
! dignitary for upwards Of half an hour,
and was thence conveyed to the steam
boat, arriving in the City of Baltimore
| the next morning, and confined in the
office of Provost Marshal McPhalf,
where | remained for the most part of
| the day.
Whilst there was treated humanely,
and the requirements of nature were
fully provided After sending for my
father and seeing him, | made my
written statement requesting that l
should make it in duplicate form so
that he should be the possessor of a
COPY. The request was denied, why,
can only be learned through the then
secretary of war and the judge advo-
cate general of the United States.
BLINDED BY GOLD"
IT'S a useless task I feel to attempt
nv trial. as emanating from verbal
statements made by me, as witnesses
were blinded by the amount of glitter
ing gold, as their reward, large sums
having been offered for the apprehen-
sion of anyone suspected of being con-
nected with the crime. I pronounce the
little that was adduced against me,
through a detective, as false in it's i'm
pressions and pervertive of truth, many
words being transposed and others
added, materially changing the whole
tenor of its meaning.
But of this, at this time, 1 have
naught to do. Let the record of that
Infamous proceeding stand, in all its
branches, with it's false swearing, sub
ordination of perjury, its hireling wit
nesses-a towering monument of in
fanny, concentrating the corruptness
| and baseness of the hour. I deal alone
with truth, acts of heartless inhuman-
ity, cruelty and tyranny melted me by
the government of the United States,
before any charge as yet had been pre-
ferred or guilt with all the base meas
ures adopted to secure it, had been es-
tablished in the case of any.
From the period of my arrest, until
April IS, 1865, whilst I was under the
April 1S( 1865, whilst I was under the
ness, 1t was not until / was turned
over to the custody of the commanding
officer at Fort McHenry that harsh anC
cruel measures were reSorted to, from
orders no doubt emanating from Edwin
M. Stanton, secretary of war. l was
placed in a loathsome and filthy cell
branded by suspicion as felon, robbed
of my liberty, resting under the grave
charge Of being implicated in the assas
sination of Abraham Lincoln.
A CONFEDERATE PRISONER.
This Of itself was sufficient torture tt
. one who possessed sensitive nature
= without the additional acts of inhu
mainly heaped upon me. There hap
f pened to be a Confederate prisoner o
& war occupying one of the small cells
, back of the one in which l was confin
p ed. I recognized his voice. we having
! been friends and companions from ou
earliest youth, and entered into CONVEX
4 sation with him. This fact was report
n ed to the sergeant of the guard to tn
c officer of the day, and forthwith l wa
q taken from my cell, brought before tn
: one he occupied, carefully searched
e this making some half dozen times i,
d all. thence conveyed to the quarters o
$ the commanding officer, who inter
e rogated me to his hearts content, be
e coming as wise in the matter where
: with [ was charged as I was myself
which seemed to displease him, if &C
tions afterwards may be criterion t
! judge by .'