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Chapter 28bloody deeds of those two assassins, and you will see that they had beentrained in the same school; the same teachers had taught them.Evidently Ravaillac, calling all the saints of heaven to his help, at hislast hour; and Booth pressing the Medal of the Virgin Mary on hisbreast, when falling mortally wounded, are both coming out from thesame Jesuit mould . . . the Jesuits alone could select the assassins, trainthem, and show them a crown of glory in heaven, if they would kill theauthor of the bloodshed, the famous renegade and apostate – the enemyof the Pope and of the Church — Lincoln.” {6} [Emphasis added]But the key player in the assassination was a young Roman Catholic andformer Secret Service agent for the Southern Confederacy. Having “called time”outside of Ford’s Theatre during the President’s murder, John Surratt escaped fromthe United States into Montreal, Canada with the aid of the priests. From Montreal toLondonderry, to Liverpool, to Rome, he enlisted in the Pope’s Zouave army. Havingbeen recognized by a boyhood friend, Surratt confessed to the murder stating,“I have done the Yankees as much harm as I could. We have killedLincoln, the niggers’ friend.” {7}As a consequence of this confession, the old acquaintance reported Surratt’swhereabouts to the American Minister in Rome. Having been arrested, he “leaptdown a precipice,” made his way to Naples, boarded a steamer and escaped toAlexandria, Egypt. But there, in 1867, he was arrested by U.S. authorities; boundhand and foot; returned to Washington, D.C. via the specially chartered U. S. warship,the Swatara; and was forced to stand trial for the murder of President Lincoln.Chiniquy narrates Surratt’s escape quite clearly:“It is evident that a very elaborate plan of escape had been prepared bythe priests of Rome to save the lives of the assassins and theconspirators. It would be too long to follow all the murderers when,Cain-like, they were fleeing in every direction, to escape the vengeanceof God and man. Let us fix our eyes on John Surratt [whose confessorand advisor was the Jesuit B. F. Wiget], who was in Washington the14 th of April, helping Booth in the perpetration of the assassination.Who will take care of him? Who will protect and conceal him? Whowill press him on their bosom, put their mantles on his shoulders toconceal him from the just vengeance of the human and divine laws? Thepriest, Charles Boucher, swears that only a few days after the murder,John Surratt was sent to him by Father Lapierre, of Montreal; that hekept him concealed in his parsonage of St. Liboire from the end of Aprilto the end of July, then he took him back, secretly, to Father Lapierre,who kept him secreted in his own father’s house, under theThe Jesuits – 1865