Johnson at odds with Holt & Stanton in June of 1865

[Eva Elisabeth]

(02-21-2015 11:02 AM)STS Lincolnite Wrote:  Someone please refresh my memory. Wasn't there someone (on Holt's staff?) who later committed suicide? I seem to remember it has been hypothesized that it was he who actually held the written recommendation back from Johnson and it was his guilt that led him to commit suicide.

Ex-Senator Preston King, who prevented Anna Surratt from asking President Johnson, did, by jumping from a Hudson River ferry boat with a bag of bullets tied to his neck.
http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/insid...ubjectID=3

Wiki reads: "Despairing of success (in eliminating corruption in the Port of New York), King committed suicide..." (The "bag of bullets" is from Wiki, too.)

I am sure I read (more) about this in a book (not that long ago), too, but cannot find where.