About the third day after the shooting of King, Governor Johnson telegraphed me that he would be down in the evening boat, and asked me to meet him on arrival for consultation.

I got C.H.Garrison to go with me, and we met the Governor and his brother on the wharf, and walked up to the International Hotel on Jackson Street, above Montgomery.

We discussed the state of affairs fully; and Johnson, on learning that his particular friend, William T.Coleman, was the president of the Vigilance Committee, proposed to go and see him.

En route we stopped at King's room, ascertained that he was slowly sinking, and could not live long; and then near midnight we walked to the Turnverein Hall, where the committee was known to be sitting in consultation.

This hall was on Bush Street, at about the intersection of Stockton.