The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-15

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eyes"
"What for ?"
"She has engaged me TO dig gutter
for her in the garden"
Where have you worked ?"
CT have worked about the streets"
"Where did Mrs. Surratt engage
you?"
She knows 1 work by jobs she
saw me in the street and engaged me"
:" Did you come to dig gutter to-
night ?"
"No; came to ask her when she
wants the job done"
An officer goes and asks Mrs. Sur
raft if she has engaged man to dig a
gutter ?
Oh no not she she engaged no man;
gets excited she fears it is thief !;
she is so glad the officers are in the
house
She comes in the hall, looks at the
man, and declares she never saw him in
her life. Yet, as it is proven by the
evidence in the trial, this man has been
for three days, March IA, 10, and IL,
guest at her house, ate at her own
table, went to the theaters with her son,
etc.
This man gives his name as Lewis
Payne. Lewis Payne is arrested under
the suspicious circumstances. William
Wells, the colored lad, was sent for !;
being shown TO room containing sew
eral people, he is asked if he recognizes
the assassin among them.
No he does not see him.
Several other people are then brought
| in, NH hn 1l-o 20, a,.l
Lewis Payne, and in an excited manner
exclaims, "There he is ! / knew 1
could never forget that hp!' The re-
cogmtion was complete
Next morning L accompanied Miss
Fanny and Augustus Seward to the
Monitor, where Payne was held a pris-
oner. What feeling must have per-
vaded the bosom of this girl while she
was going to meet the assassin, who,
before her own eyes, had so brutally as
saulted, and all but killed. her father.
She had seen him in a dimly-lighted
room, under great excitement. Would
she recognize him now? The idea of
meeting this man face to face, although
where he was harmless, would have ex-
cited vain fears in many girls heart /;
but she WIS composed, and her de-
meanOr expressed only the dignity of
her own strange position. She net the
naval officer on the Monitor with the
same calm and gentle manners so natu-
raj to her. The officers, on the other
hand, felt almost a reverence for this
girl who, instead of making a demons
tim Of her narrowing grief, was COM
handing self, and III her own unaffected
manner received the expression ofitheir
respect and sympathy with unfeigned
gratefulness.
Payne gradually rose from the hatch
way, and, with neck exposed, head I'M
covered, showing n serious if not stolid
face and colossal frame, he stood I'M
moved before this frail girl, who would
not even utter a curse upon him. God
aloue knew what passed ia these two
hearts at that moment. Strangely quiet
they stood before each other. Were
they overwhelmed by the magnitude of
a crime that was beyond mans redress?
The scene was solemn one-too solemn
for man to utter a sound silence,
broken only by the kissing wind and
surging waves, pervaded the whole
ship. 1t was almost weird transfer
nation from mysterious power
Miss Fanny was hanging on my arm.
Did feel culver? Probably did,
for gently drew her from the painful
scene. Conscientious even at this try
ing moment, she could not identify the
man; her Identification, she thought,
might be his death. She had only seen
him by dim light as ii frightful
vision. That is all she said.
To the question of the detectives
Payne answered hesitatingly and some
what evasively Had he ever seen the
lady before? No. Could he pronounce
DR.. Verdi's name? He pronounced it
so well that it made me shudder. Yet
my name was foreign one, and he a
stranger to me. Had he ever seen DR..
Verdi before? No. Such was the as
sassin Payne head and face that ex-
pressed preponderating criminal ele-
ment. There was vacancy in that face
amounting almost to imbecility. His
answer bespoke only II light degree of
fear not of intelligence. His physique
was herculean he was purely brute;
an instrument well adapted for the use
of refined brain like Booths.
Booth, egotistical in his plot, wanted
no intelligence to share the horrors of
this self-imposed heroism. He only
wanted blind instruments to aid him in
his diabolical scheme. All his accom-
plices were of that character.
True to his nature, Booth had pre-
pared means of escape for himself.
Payne, stranger in these parts, had
been left ignorant of the topography of
the country. and even without means of
sustenance. Booth had taught him well
the habits of Mr.. Seward he had
taught him the physicians name that
was to bring him to Mr.. Stewards
couch, but had not taught him how to
escape from the avenging hand of JUS
tice, and Payne fell victim to his own
ignorance and to his masters satanic
egotism.
For three days Payne.roamed about
the country in the vain attempt to con-
ceal himself. Hungered, friendless,
restless, he wandered back to the only
one who could and should offer him aid
and comfort-he returned to Mrs. Sur
rats. A mysterious power was drag
! ring him there This criminal whom