The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-05-13

Suddenly there waa murmur near the
audience door, as Of u man speaking above
his bound. He said:
Nine O'Clock and torty-five minutes ~
TO month until they passed the theater
door, and were heard upon the sidewalk.
Directly voice cried, i'll the same slight
ly raised monotone:
mime q clock and fifty minutesv'
This also passed from mnn to man, until
1t touched the street like snudder.
''Nine o'clock and flty-five minutesw
next interval, each CT which narrowed to a
lesser span the life OF the good President.
Ten O'Clock here sounded, and conspiriDg
echo said in reyerberatiOn:
'''ren o'clock -
SO, like creeping thing, from lip to lip,
went
s.Ten O'Clock and Two minutesv'
IAN iEterval.)
:.Ten O'Clock and ten minutes!
AT this instant Wilkes Booth appeared
In the door of the the theatre, and the men
who had repeated the time so faithfully,
Ominously scattered at his coming, as ut
some warning phantom.
All this is SO dramatic that fear TO ex-
cite laugh when write it. But It is
report it.
All evil deeds go wrong. While the
click of the pistol. taking the Presidents
life, went like pang through the theater,
Payne was spiiling blood in Mr.. Stewards
house, from threshold to sick chamber
| But Booths broken leg delayed him, or
| made him lose his general calmness, and
he and Harold left Payne to bis fate.
(, have not adverted TO the hole bored
| with gimlet in the entry door of Mr.. Lin
| COINS box, aud Gu; out with pen-knite.
The theory that the pistol bali Of Booth
passed through this hole is now exploded.
And the stage carpenter may have to ans
wer for this little Orifice With all his neck.
For when Booth leaped from the box he
strobe straight across the stage by the foot
| lights. reaching the prOmpters post, which
is Immediately behind that private box OPP
| posite to MIR. Lincoln. From this box 10
the stage door in the rear. the passage way
leads behind the ends Of the scenes, and is
generally closed up by one or more with.
! drawn scenes, or SO marrow that only by
doubling and turning sidewise can one pass
along. On this fearful night, however.
/, tho scenes We're so adjusted tn the murder
er's design that he had a fan aisle from the
foot oi The stage 10 the exit door.
THE TELEGRAPH WIRES SEVERED.
Within fitt zen minutes after the milr,ler
the wires were seyere,: entirely around the
city. excepting only a secret wire Tor Gov
H.
am Ioid thar by this wire the Govern
nent reached tho fortiticatipns around
| w esiingto:I, first ;eiegsaplline ali the way
to Old Point, and thence back tO the outlv-
ing forts. TEis Information comes to me
from So many creditabie channels that
must concedeit.
I THE FLIGHT OF PAYNE.
Payna, having, As he thought. made An
end of MIR. SeWard--whch would have
been the case but for Robinson, the nurse
mounted his horse and attempted TO find
Booth. But the town was in alarm, ond he
galioped at once for the open country, Ia
king, as he Imagined, tho proper road
for the East Branch. He rode at 9
killing pace, and when near Fort Lincoln
on the baltimore pike, his horse threw him
headlonY. Afoot and tewiidered, he re-
solved to return to the city, whose light.
he could plainly see, but before doing st
, he conceuled bimse.t some time, and mad,
some almost absurd efforts to disguise him
self. Cutting a cross section from the wool
Ell undershirt which covered his muscular
arm, he made u rude cap OF 1t, and threw
away his bloody coat. This has since beer
. found Also Oh his bosom and sleeves. III,
, also spattered himself plentifullv with mut
and clay, and taking AN abandoned picl
from the deserted intrench,nents near by
, be struck out at once ;or Washington.
! BY the providence which always attends
! y
AS the officers OF the Government were ar
resting her. They seized Payne at once
: who had an nw kward lie to urge in his de
fonse--that he had come there to dig
trench. That night be dug trench broal
1 and deep enough for both Of them TO lie II
!. forever. They washed his bands and fours
I hem SOFT AMI smanish; his pockets con
, cate pocket-knife. All this apparel con
sorted i'll with his assumed character. HI
, is without doubt MIR. SeWard's attempte,
murderer.
HOW A VIZ NAN CAN MURDER. y
: Coarse, and hard, aud calm, Mrs. Surrat
shut up her house after the murder, an
5 waited with her daughters till the officer
!. , came. She was imperturable, and rebuke'
= her girls for weeping, aud would have gon
: to Jail like statue, but that in her extrein
|, ity Payne knocked At her door. He ha
= come, he said, to dig ditch for Mrs. SUI
ratt, whom he very we'll knew. But Mr.
:. 6urratt protested that she had never see
: the man 1t all. snd had no ditch TO clear
: "How fortunate. girls" che said, "tp.
have murdered us all.
Her effOntery stampe her a. worthy I
!. oompanionship with Booth. Payne hs
~ been identified by . lodger Of Mrs. Surrat
o. having twice visited the house under u
5 name of Wood. The girls vii! render -
W.
!. ratt were in custody the links would
complete.
!. FLIGHT or ATzBRATT.
AtSeYa:t had rOoxn almost directly Ov,
= = Vice. President JohnsOn's. He had all II
y materials to do murder, but lost spirit ,
:. opportunity. He ran away 30 hastily th
:. all lie arms and baggage were discovered
y = tremendous bowie knife and Colts NJ
w revolver were found between tho INA
resses Of his bed. BOOTHS coat was al,
Is found there, showing conspired flight
u company, and in it three bOxes Of cartrids
le es. . map OF Maryland, ganntlets for rit
:, inr. y spur and q handkerchief, marke
% with tho name of Booths mother-a mott
) er's souvenir for murderer's pocketl
y Aircraft fled alone, and was found at II
i house OF his uncle in Montgomery Count.
l. do not know that any INSTRUMENT OF mul
It der has ever made rne thrill as hen Ore,
is this terrible bowie knife from It's sheath
Major o. Beirne, Of Now York. vas the IL
t lstigator Of Atzeras,'s discovery ard srres
ol Atsera.s or Abzerod,, but whose name !
his own execrable chirography, | has
o copied frn.sl the register a. Kiskwood's III
1t tel. aal4. A. .Ahzerodt. Charles count,
Nd. los b." win be hung positively. II
is a murderer by instinct and Temperament