Deseret Evening News | 1906-05-09 | Page 1 | R. M. Smoot Dead

R M SMOOT DEAD Ho Ill I It Win u III In I I um Plot lilt In III t ti Kidnap i lii hue Ii Irol meI I l unit dent Lincoln Fort Smith Ark May JR n M I I Smoot who whit watt Willi In the plot 1101 to 10 kidnap Abraham Lincoln iI nd ted II who wh old to John the lie bo boat t I which It wan Intended ed to 10 convey Lin Lincoln coln across the tho Potomac diet died here to today tolIa day lIa aged 73 years yonis It II M 01 it Smoot was ties a Il man of ot tIo Mature and during the tho Civil Ill war wits was wasn n fl 4 blockade runner lie 1111 stated staled AI lo to Ml friends that he Ito gold sohl time tIll boat bOllt to 10 for tho purpose of kidnapping President Lincoln mid wax wan lo to Intro have b el eln 1 n party lo to II the th kidnapping he hue knew nothing of or the intention to 10 kill the time Prey Idem 1 Ho He itar 1111 familiar with time the nr it 11 made for tor or tilt the escape of ot Bur ur mutt mid often visited MIH Mis tho thu mother III In pend pending ing Inlo completion of thug the arrangements lot for forthe the this kidnapping lie wail wai arrested as n Ii suspect and In confinement nt for Cor 10 ili 1111 H In lii Washington