Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-18

vince anyone that l was Tn no way prepared for the tragedy enacted in Washington on the very day was in Elmire'
 Did you not have companion in your flight from Elmira to Canada?
 " Yes, for part of the distance. The man has not been identified and all know about him is that he was as poor as myself It matters not where met him, but we reached St Albans, Vt, together, and walked to Franklin on the other side of the line.
 s' Once in Canada succeeded in get ting funds; how, it is not necessary to describe, but you may remember that the confederacy had it's agents i'll that country with plenty of money.
 It has been charged against me that I knew my mother was in serious danger, and that by returning to Wash ington I might have saved her. This l most solmenly deny. Knowing that she was entirely innocent of any connection with the so-called conspir- acy, though her sympathy was undeni- ably with the confederacy, could not imagine that she was in any danger.
 I did not then dream of the in- tense bitterness and prejudice that were manifested at her trial, and I felt sure that if she were tried she would be acquitted When I did hear of her sentence, became almost in sane, and would have gone to Wash 1ngfton at once if my friends in Mon- treal had not restrained me.
 As T would have laid down my life to save my mother. and do not think I am a coward, it is cruelty un- just to intimate that the fear of death kept me away
 What induced you to fly to Eng land?
 felt that I had to move. knew that the American detectives were sWarming In Canada and I could not long remain secreted. It would have been sheer madness to retain my name, so changed it, as you know. and took passage for England.
 It has been said that on the yoy- age became drunk and virtually gave myself away. Indeed, evidence to this effect was adduced at the trial. However, as I am a man of ordinary shrewdness and was not then, nor am now, addicted to the use of liquor, you can see there is no truth in that.
 By the advice of friends I met in England was induced to go to Rome. and, as had no money and the po- sition promised me protection, I enlist ed in the Papal Zouaves Being un- able to speak the language soon be- came a marked man.
 Rome was crowded then, as now, with travellers from all over the world. and you may well imagine my awful anxiety when was in the papal army. Still, although was continually anx- 1ous, was wholly unprepared for my arrest when it came.
 When was being taken from the barracks, with my mind in a whirI. for felt that the end had come. I was seized with an awful impulse to f7y. ana broke away from my guards. How succeeded in eluding them | cannot tell, for all the incidents connected with my getting away are blank. but know that succeeded in reacbing. Naples, where my senses began to re- turn.
 !" At Naples succeeded in shipping aboard a fishing s1oop bound for Mes slna. From Messir1a I succeeded in reaching Alexandria. My purpose was, after reaching Cairo, to make my way to upper Egypt where [ would be away from civilization and the country felt had left forever.
 But. to my great disappointment, MT Hale, the American consul at Cairo, was on the lookout for me, and I was again arrested soon after my arrival You know the rest. was sent home on the United States steam ship Swatara, returned to Washington, was tried and not convicted. That is all "--New York Sun.