The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-05

eminent detective, looked ut his coast
survey map and saw that he could head
off any such party by sending a steamer
down to Belle PLANE or to Acquia creek
and there disembarking them, where
they would be only six or seven miles
from the Rappahannock river, and about
ten miles from Port Conway.
A steamer was at once dlspatched with
these men. Monday might they landed
in Virginia, sixty miles below Washing
ton city, and on Tuesday morning came
to Port Royal ferry. They found that
the previous day negro had brought
from the direction of the Potomac two
men in an old wagon to Port Conway,
and that one of them was lame. They
said that some disbanded Confederate
cavalry of Mosby's command had be-
friended these two men, got them across
the Rappahannock and mad gone toward
Bowling Green, the county seat OF Caro-
line, the next county to the west.
The pursuers at once crossed the Rap
pahannock, in sight of President Madi-
sons birthplace, and on Tuesday night
arrived il Bowling Green, mere ham,
let, and, hauling the principal Confed.
crate of the party out of his bed, made
him tell what he had done with the two
fugitives.
BY this time the whole country was
filed with the pallor of the great trag-
edy, and the Confederates had dis
covered it to be as deplorable thing as
the Federals had Mosby's cavalryman,
therefore, pioneered the men back to
CARROTS farm, in Caroline county,
where Booth had hidden himself in II
barn. His Confederate friends had tried
| to have him taken care of in Port Royal
without success. 10 show the trifing
character of Harold, when he had put
Booth in CARROTS house, he went up to
| Bowling Green alone the next day,
| Tuesday, and spent the day talking and
drinking with his new friends. A few
hours afterward, when he and Booth
had returnee from the house to the barn.
it was surrounded by the cavalry. Har-
| old was so scared that he gave himself
up, and they sent him in to make Booth
| give up his arms, but Booth cursed him
for coward, and saw his last time had
come. After some bravado of offering
to eight the whole command fair" he
| told them to get a stretcher ready for
| him. They fired the barn by pulling
the straw through the cracks, and saw
him standing there in the illumination
leaning on the crutch DR.. Mudd had
made for him, and trying to get a sight
ON somebody whom he could kill. At
that moment nervous or willful SER
geant among the soldiers fired at Booth
and struck him in the back of the neck,
producing paraly sis of the spinal cord.
One of the detectives rushed in and seized
him, yet alive, and pulled him out OF
the combustion and laid him on the
grass. On Wednesday morning, about
7 o'clock, he died on the porch at Gar
rett's house, muttering a few words to
the effect that he had died for his coun-
try, and wanted his mother to know
that he thought he was right; even
these words were very indistinct, as he
could only whisper. He was heard dis
tinctly to say, however, in his intense
suffering, "Kill me kill me /" A doc
tor arrived from Belle PLANE before he
died. He was sewed up in saddle
blanket, put on q rattle-trap negro
wagon and hauled to Port Royal and
Belle PLANE, reacl ing the latter place
in the middle of the afternoon OF April
26, Wednesday. A part of the remains
were buried near the other conspirators
in the penitentiary yard at Arsenal
point. The cartilage which was struck
by the soldiers ball is In the Army and
Navy Medical Museum. Most of the
body was disinterred before the close of
Johnson's administration and put under
the monument of the Booth family at
Green Mount Cemetery. Baltimore.
On the 7th of July, about three
months afterward, Harold was hung on
the same gallows with Mrs. Surratt,
Payne and Atzerodt. DR.. Mudd was
sent to Dry Tortugas with Spangler,
OLaughlin and Arnold. He behaved
very well during the yellow fever at that
port and was pardoned; two of the
other persons died from the results OF
dissipation. george ALfred Townsend.