Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-11

be known. what great number OF people
there we're In the North who either Sc
cretl. or openly sympathized, with the
Confederacy. Long before the nightsfrom
Elmira had discovered this and knew
pretty we'll where TO find friends. While
acting as an agent for the Confederacy#
I had no trouble IN travelling through, the.
North, wherever and whenever u pleased.
The greatest drawback to my flight was
the want OF means. this In itself should
convince anyone that ] was IN no way
prepared for the tragedy enacted in;
Washington. on. the day was in
Elmifa.''
did you have a travelling com.
panion IN your fight from Elmira to
Canada2''
Had a Companion.
yes. for part OF the way. The man
has not been identified and all know
about him, Is that he was equally poor as
myself. It matters not where I met him,
but we reached Mt. Adams, VT. together.
and walked to Franklin on the other side
of the line. Once in Canada <;cceeded
in getting funds; how. it is not necessary
to describe. but you may rem ember that
the confederacy had its agents In that
country with plenty OF money.
1T has been charged against me that
knew my mother was in serious danger
and that by returning to Washington /
might have saved her. This most soil
EMMY deny. Knowing that she was en-
tirely innocent of any connection with the
so-catied conspiracy, though her sympa-
thy was undeniably with the Confeder-
acy. could not ina sine that she was in
any danger did not then dream Of the
intense bitterness and prejudice that was
| manifested al her trial. and I felt sure
that If she were tried she would be ac-
Quilted. When did hear of her sentence,
became aim ost insane. and would have
gone to Washington at once. if my friends
in Montreal had not restained me, as /
would have laid down my life to save my
mother. and I do not think am a cow
ard. it is cruelty unjust to intimate that
the fear of death kept me away.
What induced you to fly to England?"
81 felt that had to move. ! knew that
the American detectives were swarming
in Canada and / could not long remain
secreted. It would have been sheer mad
ness to retain my name, SO changed
it, as you know. and took passage for
England. It has been said that on the
voyage 1 became drunk and virtually gave
myself away. Indeed the evidence to this
effect was adduced at the trial. How
ever. as am a man of ordinary shrewd-s
ness and was not then, nor am I now;
addicted to the use of liquor. you can
see that there is no truth in that. By the
aCVlce OF friends met in England i was
induced to go to Rome, and as had
no money and the position promised me
protection. enlisted in the Papal Zou-
ayes.
Disguise Penetrated.
'eBeing unable to speak the language
| soon became marked man. Rome was
crowded then as now. with travellers
from all over the world. and you may
Well Imagine my awful anxiety when 1
was in the Fapal army. Still. although
continually anxious. I was wholly unpre-
pared for my arrest when it came. When
| was being taken from the barracks,
with my mind in a whirI. for I felt that
the end had come. was seized with an
awful impulse to fly and broke away
from my guards. How succeeded in
eluding them 7 cannot tell, for all the in
cidents connected with my getting away
are blank. but know that succeeded
in reaching Naples, when my sense began
to return.
cat Naples succeeded in shipping
aboard fishing sloop bound for Messina.
From Messina ! succeeded -i- reaching
Alexandra My purpose was, after rea
ing Cairo. to make my way to Upper
Ecypt where would be away from -civi.
'i-".sc- c--7 t'7a country T. felt had left
forever. But to my great disa ppointnent
h.r. ilaie, f...e American Consul at Cairo.
was on the lookout for me and was
again arrested soon after my arrival
You Know the rest. I was sent home on
the United States steamship Swatara, re-
turned to Washington. was tried and not
convicted
THAT is all
l. F..