Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-28

The doctor says he is thirty five
years of age, married in 1850, built
the house i'll whieiI he now lives
after his marriage owned we'll
stocked farm Of about thirty arees,
and was i'm tl.e enjoyment ofa pretty
extensive pratice np to the time of
his arrest in 1866. The world went
Well and smoothly with lTim previous
| to that unhappy event. His house
was furnished with all the comforts
of a country gentleman's residence.
He had his horses and hounds. and
in the sporting seasOn was foremost
at every fox hunt and at every man
ly outdoor sport. He had robust
health and vigorous, athletic frame
| IN those days, bat it is very different
with him now. Aboye the middle
height, with a reddish moustache aud
chin whisker, high forehead and
attenuated nose, his appearance in
dicates man OF calm and slow re-
| Election, gen tie in manner, and of a
very domestic turn. He SAYS he was
born within a few miles of his house,
and has lived all his life in the coun-
| try. His whole desire now is to be
| allowed to spend the balance of his
days quietly in the bosom of his fami-
ly. III his sunken, lustreless eve,
l
| ion one can read the words tDry Tor
i tugasn with terrible significance.
| I'm the prime of his years, look ing
prematurely old and careworn, and
! there are few indeed who could gaze
| on the wreck and ravage in the face
| of this man before them without feel
| ing sentiment of sympathy and
| comnliseratlon. Il have come home, -
said the Doctor, sorrowfuI, ITO find
| nothing left me but my house and
| family. No money, no provisions,
no crops in the ground, and no clear
way before me where to derive the
means ofsupport in my present en-
feeblad condition. There was ne
deception here. In the scanty
furniture of the house and in the pale
sad countenance of the speaker there
was evidence enough of poor and
| altered fortune. Ii was now even
| ing and growing rapidly dark A
big fire blazed on the ample hearth,
and Mrs. MHdd, an intelligent and
handsome lady with one Of her chill
dren, Joined the Doctor and ourseIv Y es
i'll the conversation over the events
OF that memorable April morning
| after the assassination
Ibid you see Booth, Mrs. Mudd %
We inquired, with feeling of intense
interest to hear her reply.
YES, she replied, 81 saw himself
and Harold, after they entered this
parlor. Booth stretched himself out
on that sofa there, and Harold
stopped down to whisper something
to hiTl."
|. "How did Rooth look !"
Every bad. He seemed as though
he had been drinking very hard. Hi:
eyes were red and swollen, and hi.
hair in disorder"
Did he appear to suffer much ?"
mot after he laid down on the
sofa. In fact, it seemed as il hardl !,
anything was wTGng with him then. }
Nv hat kind Of u feature did Boot
sustain >" We inquired, addressing
the Doctor.
| Nv ell +" said lac, latter he was
laid down on tliat sofa. and having
told me his leg was fractured by his
horse falling on him during his
Journey up from Richmond, took Z
knife and split the leg of his bool
down To the instep, slipped it OH
and the seek with it. | then felt
carefully. with both hands down
along his legs. but at first could dis
cover nothing like crepitatiou, till,
sitter a second investigation, | found
on the outside near the ankle, some
thing that felt like indurated flesh
and then, for the first time, / con-
cluded it was a direct and clear frac-
| out of pasteboard a sort of boat that
adhered close enough to the leg to
keep it rigidly straight below the
krree, without ut all interfering with
the fexure of the leg. \ low cut
| shoe was substituted for the leather
! boot, and between five and six o'clock
/ in the morning, Booth and his com
panion started off for a point on the
] river below"
"How did Booths horse look after
his long ride ?'' we inquired.
''The BOY, after putting him in the
stable,n the Doctor replied, reported
that his back underneath the for
ward part of the saddle was raw and
bloody. This cir cumstance tailed
with Booths account that he had
been riding all day previous from
Richmond, and no suspicion arose
in my mind for one instant that the
man whose leg / was attending to
was anything more than what he
Represented himself"
"Gou knew Booth before, Dcctor?''
"Ges,o replied the Doe .or. II
November, 1864, at the church yond-
er, spoke a few words To him and
never saw him afterwards until a
little while before Christmas, when
i | happened TO be in Washington
making few purchases and waiting
for some friends from Baltimore,
who promised To meet me at the
Pennsylvania House, and come out
here 10 spend the holidays. l WAS
walking past the National Hotel al
the time, when 4 person tapped me
on the shoulder, and, on turning
round, L discovered il was the
gentleman | was introduced TO al
the church about six weeks previous
/. ly- lie asked me aside fora mo-
ment, and said he desired an intro
daction 10 John Ii. Surratt, with
whom he presumed / was aeuuaint-
ed. | ssid that ] was. Surratt and
became almost necessarily aeauaiu-
ted from the fact of his living on the
road / travelled SO often on my way
Ia Washington, and having the only
tavern OH the way thai ] cared L.
visit. Booth and l walked along
the avenue three on four blocks,
when We suddenly came across Sur
ratt and Weichman, and all four
having become acquainted, We ad-
iourned 10 the National Hotel and
had round OF drinks. The witnesses
in my ease swcre that Boo h and |
moved TO 4 corner of the room and
were engaged for ali hour or so in
secret consultation. That Was y