The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-10

portunities the Piotters wasted II u
Had Been Their Desi IN 10 Kii-Ncw
Yorker Who Kept Out of the scheme.
Copyright, 1902, BY The Sun Printing and
Publishing Company.
CHAPTER ".
The life story of Samuel B. Arnold re-
manned unrecorded for many years after
his pardon by President johnson save for
that part set down in his statement immed-
lately after arrest in the office of Marshal
McPhail, In Baltimore, in that made before
". II Gleason. notary public az Dry Tortu-
gas, in 1887, and ia writings complied from
testimony adduced at his trial. In the early
rineties Mr.. Arnold began what he AYERS is
the true story of his entire connection with
the Lincoln conspiracy and it's subsequent
events
With some very slight and minor changes.
his manuscript follows:
ARHolDs own STORY.
Twenty-Five years have rolled around
since my return to my native State--a free
man. During that period ! have silently
borne both my sorrows and the many wrongs
thrust upon me 10y overzealous writer's.
] declined to be interviewed by correspon-
dents of the press, abiding my own time TO
give to the public any and all facts which
possessed. knowing that when did 80 it
would come under my own hand and every
thing would be truthfully transcribed. /
feel il my duty not only to myself. but TO my
country AT large, to come before the public
and To give .as far a. my knowledge extends.
an authentic account Of every part taken
and every part known during my connection
with John Wilkes Booth
The standard from which the history Of
the country Is AZ present made up is COM
piled from that military inqulsition, termed
~ military commission. held az Washington.
u. c.. in the year 1885, Of which will deal
a. ! pursue my subject
NEVER BROKE THE LAW HE SAYS.
was I'm in ne Dis riot of Columbia, Of
respectable parentagc. Az birth there were
four trrits Of character which grew stronger
as age progressed. They we're honor, hon
esty. trl,hfuness and will power 1t re-
Quired neither law nor tut.lage TO engrait
them in my nature. as they were part and
parcel Of my being al birth. Through life,
even to my old age, they have been Just 40
strong and firm As IN my youth yield 20
no one in this vast country pre- .minenCe in
these qualifications. My parents were
Christians who impressed these virtues on
my mind beside. my preceptors were men
of high standing within my native State,
who both looked after my spiritual welfare
and 10 the observance and obedience to { he
governing laws of tho country
As a youth was wild only 10 enjoy the
pleasures of life, which | must say wee
hOuntiful from youth to middle age. No
wish Of the heart but was gratifed, and lie
curing that period was one vast sea Of
pleasure. There was nothing vicious in nv
nature. but | WAS firm and decided in all
the walks Of life never allowing any one
To impose upon me. From my birth, which
occurred in 1894, | had never violated a law
Of the land nor had | violated any when
arrested in 1895, although it is 50 recorded
that l did. let the public di,prove my
assertion.
WAR CHANGED HIS FRIENDSHIP
Fate accompanied me In all my WANDER
Jugs Through ill-health and a broken
down constitution | returned from the
South in the early part of 1854. | came
ostensibly to see my mother, who was
very i'll. To restore her TO health prom.
ised 70 remain, and I found that she grad
ually began 20 improve MY sojoum at
home was not a bed Il roses II was be-
yond my minds conception to believe.
much less to feel that the nature of man
or the feelings of the human heart could
undergo 80 varied "A change, through civil
war, as | became the witness of. until
brought into direct contact with the wide
arrangement il was productive of among
those with whom from earliest years the
frmest friendship and associal ion had
existed unmoved, unchanged and I'M