The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-05

As the two horsemen started TO 80 OF,
Booth cried out to Lloyd:
ado you want to hear some news
AZ don't care much shout It, cried
LLOYD, by his own account. -
awe have murdered" ssid Booth, the
President and Secretary Of State
And with this horrible confession, bootn
and Herold dashed away in the mlohlgnh
across Prince Georges county
THE BROKEN LEG.
On Saturday, before sunrise, Booth and |
Herold, who had ridden all night without
stopping elsewhere, reached the house CT
DR.. Mudd, three miles from Brysntown' !
Tbey contracted with him for twenty-five
dollars in greenbscks to set the broken leg |
Herold, who knew DR.. Mudd, introduced
Booth under another name, and stated that
be had fallen from his horse during the
night. The doctor remarked of Booth that
he closely draped the lower part OF
his face while the leg was being set ne
was silent and in pain. Having no spliRts
In the house, they split up an old-fashioned
wooden band-box and prepared tnem'-
The doctor was assisted by an EnglshmAn'
who ST the same time began to heW out
pair of crutches. The inferior bone OF the
lett leg was broken vertically scross, and
because vertically it did not yield when
the crippled man walked upon 1t.
The riding boot of Booth had to be cut
from his foot; within were the words "
Wilkes" The doctor says that he did not
notice these, but that visual defect may
cost him his neck. The two men waited
around the house all day, but toward
evening they slipped their horses from the
stable and rode away in the direction OF
Aliens Fresh.
THE MURDKRERs BEwILDERED.
Below Bryantown run certain deepsnd
and slimy swEmps, along the belt OF these
Booth and Harold picked up a L egro named
hwsn, who volunteered to show them the
rosd for two dollars; they gave him i've
more TO show them the route to Aliens
Fresh, but really wished, as their actions
intimated, to gain the house of one Sam.
Coke, q notorious rebel, and probably well
advised of the plot. They reached the
house at midnight. 1t is q fine dwelling,
one of the best in Maryland. After hal
looing for some time, Coke come to the
door himself. AS soon IS he opened it and
beheld who the strangers were, he instant
" blew out candle he held in his hand,
and without 8 word pulled them into the
house, the negro remaining in the yard.
! The confederstes remained in Coxe's house
until o'clock in the morning, during
which time the negro saw them eat and
drink heartily; but when they re-sppeared
| thew spoke in 8 loud tone, 30 that Swan
could hear them, against the hospitality OF
| Coke. All this was meant to influence the
| darkey; but their motives were as sppa-
rent as their words. He conducted them
three miles further on, when they told him
that now they knew the way, and giving
him five dollars more-msking twelve dol
lars in sll-told him to go back.
But when the negro, in the dusk of the
morning, looked after them ss he recorded,
he saw that both horses heads were turn
ed once mere toward Coxe's, and it was
this man doubtless, who hsrbored the fugi-
tives from Sunday to Thursday, aided pos
sibly, by such neighbors as the Wilson's
and Adsuses.
CROSSING THE RIVER.
at the point where Booth crossed the
Potomac the shores are very shallow, and
one must wade out some distance to where
boat will float. A white man came up
here with canoe on Friday, and tied it by
a stone anchor. Between seven and eight
o'clock it disappeared, and IN the afternoon
some men at work on Methxy creek, in
Virginia, saw Booth and Heroid land tie
the boats rope to a stone, and fling 1t
ashoresnd strike at ence across ploughed
field for King George Court House. Many
folks entertained them without doubt, but
we positively hear of them next at Port
ROYAL Ferry, and then at CARROTS fsrm.s
1 close this article with dead list. In
another letter l wish to speak in full of the
detective and military efforts to capture
Booth on the Maryland side of the Poto-
mac.
NAMES OF THE AssAssINs AND THEIR Ao-
CEssORIEs.
1. spangler, the stage carpenter of Fords
theatre, will most probably suffer the ex-
treme penalty of the law.
2. "Sam" Arnold, of Baltimore, better
known as the author of a letter signed
SSAh, WnO uea----I Eha aloA and
agreed to it, and backed out in the end be-
cause of his failing courage, will slso suf-
fer death. He WAS conspirstor but not
bold CROUCH to be an assassin.
3. Captain Willie Jett, found at Bow
ling Green, who took Booth behind him on
his horse, thus facilitating his escape, will
run close chance for his neck He either
did or did not recognize In Booth the as
sassin, and if so, Wo to him
4. Azeroth or a Azerodt, but whose name in
his own execrable chiogrsphy, have copi-
ed from the register at Kirkwoods Hotel,
IS 4" G. A. Abzerodt, Charles county, Md,
l26 b." will be hung positively. he is a
murderer by instinct and temperament.
His face is a standing conviction.
5. Mrs. Surratt will su fer the full penal
ty at sched to her crime. As Booth was
the master, so was she the mistress conspir-
ator. She is bold and cruel, and deserves
to die
6. Mclaughlin, friend and confederate
of Booth, will die for conspiracy without
courage.
Z. Doctor Mudd, residing near Bryan
town, may suffer death for his timidity.
He set Booths leg on Saturday morning
and never mentioned it till Sunday night.
He may not have recognized Booth, and
may not, IS he says, have heard Of the
murder. But he has been stern seces-
sionist, and lifs-insurEnce policy at pres
ent would cost him the revenue of his
county.
8. John Lloyd will certainly die. He
kept Mrs. Surrstts hotel at tSurrsttsville, Sc
creted and furnished the two ssssssins with
cArbines, and, although positively aware
of the conspiracy before, and the crime
Immediately after its execution, he held his
tongue.
8. Sam. Coxer, or Captain" Sam. Coke,
lives between Scylls and Oharybdi He
concealed and fed Booth, probably know
ing his hands to be stained with blood. he
has already suffered execution in this hor-
rible forebodings.
9. Young Herold, who stood with Booth
in the all-memorsble barn, and shared his
flight, and was his guide and servant, will
die despite hundred pleas of dementis or
mania.
TO- John Surratt, if caught at all, will
suffer death. He shared the horrible secret
of meditsted crime, and should with his
mother meet the reward of murder.
IL. Payne or Wood, the desperate sssss-
sion of Mr.. Seward, who was taken at Mrs.
Surrstt's house, and was hired cut-throAt,
will die beyond peradventure.
IL. Mr.. and Mrs. Adams, Of Newport,
these, it is believed, knew Booth, and as