Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-04-07
DIR. MUDD AT HOME.
What he Says about the Assas-
sin BOOIh.


A correspondent Of the New York
Herald hunted up Mudd at his home IN
MARYLAND. The Doctor was scared When
told his visitor was q reporter, and did
not want to say anything, but talked
little. We quote the correspondence
In the prime of his life, looking pre-
maturely old and careworn, there are
few, indeed, who could gaze on the
wreck and ravsge in the face OF this man
bafore them without feeling sentiment
of sympsthy and commiseratlon.
have come home" said the Doctor, sor-
rowfulIy, to find nothing left me but
NV house and family. No money, no
provisions, no crops in the ground, and
no clear way before NE where TO derive
the means of support in my present en-
feebled condition." There was no oecep-
ton here. In the scsnty furniture OF tne
house and the pale, sad countenance OF
the speaker there was evidence enough
Of moor AMI altered fortune. 1t was now
evening, al ! growing rapidly dark. A
big fire blsz4d on the ample hearth, ano
Mrs. Mudd an intelligent and beautiful
LADY, with one of her children, joined the
Doctor and ourselves In the conversation
over the events of that memorable April
morning after the assassination,
HDid YOU see Booth, Mrs. Mudd ?" we
INQUIRED, with q feeling of intense inter-
est to hear her reply.
HYes,n she replied, 81 saw himself
and Harold after they entered this par
Ior. Booth stretched himself out on that
sofa there, and Hsreld stOOped down to
whisper something to him."
"HoW did Booth look 2"
"Very bsd. He seemed as though he
had been drinking very hard, his eyes
were red aud swollen, and his hslr IN
disorder"
ibid he appear TO suffer rnuch ?"
got after he laid down on the sofa.
| In fact, it seemed as IL hardly anything
| was wrong with him them"
TWhat kind OF a fracture did Booth
sustain ?'' we inquired, addressing the
/ Doctor.
:" WeIl,u said he, after he was laid
down on that sofa, and having told me
that his leg was fractured by his horse
falling on him during his journey up from
Richmond, took 3 knife and split the
leo of his boot down to the instep, slipped
| IL off sud the sock with it; L then felt
carefully with both hands down along
hjs leg. but st first could discover nothing
ike eTepitRtion until, after second In
yestigstion, l found on the outside, near
the snkIe, something that felt ilKe ihau,
rated fish, and hen for the qrst time
concluded it was d direct and clean fac
;t:,ra of the bone. then iDnprovised oul
Of Of . pssteboard Si sort Of boot that adhered
close enough to the leg to keep it rigldl1
straight below the knee, without VT tSa ,aH a. a
io5-cnt shoe was substituted for tn,
leather boot, and between 8 snd 8 o'eloei
In The morning Booth and his compan
ions started off for a Soint en the rive
below"
: "HoW did Booths hoTse look siter III
, long ride ?n We inquired.
} 1.-The boy, after putting him up In tn
: stable" The Doctor replied, reporte'
that his boa underneath the ioTWaI
2 mart of the Saddle WRs raw and bloody
: Tnis circumstance Tailed with Boom
t account that he had been riding all da
. previous from Richmond, and no susp
con arose in my mind for one instan
Ihat the man whose leg L was attendin
10 was anything more thaRzR nat q
represented himself"