| Show STRANGE CASE OF GORDON GOR man once accused of plot to assassinate lincoln now becomes united states senator memphis tenna tenn A special to tho news says sought bought at one ona time by the federal authorities under a reward forbis capture dead or alive tor for alleged conspiracy in the murder of a president ot of the united states stales and now appointed a member of the legislative body of that country Is the strange story of colonel james gordon who has been nominated united states senator by governor noel as aa successor to the late A J ln mr gordon was one of several confederate leaders suspected of being in conspiracy with J willes booth to kill president lincoln ile ho escaped arrest and probable death only by the intervention of a yankee colonel with whom he had bad crossed swords in a fight in virginia in the earlier years of the war colonel gordon had formed an intimate friendship with booth and after the assassination of president ll 11 lincoln the reward of was offered for hla his capture colonel gordon went to canada and it was several months after aber the dose of hostilities before he be found it hifa to return in one of the campaigns in virginia colonel gordon had crossed swords with mith the colonel of a new york cavalry regiment both were injured but they afterward became fast friends colonel gordon wrote a letter to atals new yorker denying that he had any part in the conspiracy and stat lug that lie he desired to return home the former foe took the matter up with general dicks then in command of the army forces in new york and tho the latter sent him a passport and an invitation to come coma to new york and which he did lie he afterward satisfied general dicks that ho he knew nothing of the lincoln co con n dirc |
