"To the Editor of The St. Paul Pioneer.
"You assume the non-truth of a short paragraph addressed by me to
the St. Paul `Press,' viz:
"At 6:30 P. M., Friday last, April 14th, I was told as an item of news,
8 miles west of this place, that Lincoln and Seward had been assassinated.
This was three hours after I had heard the news."
St. Cloud, 17th of April, 1865.
"The integrity of history requires that the above coincidence be established.
And if anyone calls it in question, then proofs more ample than
reared their sanguinary shadows to comfort a traitor can now be given.
"Respectfully,
"F. A. CONWELL."
