Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1906 — Death of a Lincoln Plotter. [ARTICLE]

Death of a Lincoln Plotter.

Fort Smith. Ark., May 10.—R. H. Smoot, who was in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln, and who sold Surrant the boat with which It was intended to convey Lincoln across the Potomac, Is dead, aged 7tt~years. 1