The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-08-12

Ba1Q the 1AuuOIu, 70 give JIG cAEDlASSp
whisky and feld-glasses 10 whoever
called for thsTn. John Surratt deposited
the carbines there q considerable time
before. A rope and monkey-wrench
had also been deposited, but they were
not asked for, further showing that the
murder was q different scheme from that
| of the capture. There was now nobody
| to bind. and no vehicle TO screw up.
Booth and Harold stood there FIVE
minutes on the green before the tavern,
and took drink from the whisky bot
tie, and Booth boastingly cried out that
they had assassinated the President and
Seward. In the early morning Booth
rode to Mudd's house. Mudd says that
at o'clock he went to the window and
saw Booth sitting on horse end talk:
ative young man holding that horse and
another horse from which he had dis
mounted. 1t is well known, in his vain
performance in jumping from the pri-
vats box, Booth had fractured his leg.
This leads to the doubt as to whether
Booth had intended originally to stop at
Mudd's house at all. He might have
designed passing to the west of Mudd's
house, which was out of his plain course
to the Potomac, but when he broke his
leg it was inevitable that he must stop
at Mudd's to have it set. Madd set tbs
limb and made cfutch for Booth, and
tried to get a carriage for the party;
but the situation was very grave. Some
time during the Saturday, probably late
1 in %ta Oft l.
their horses in Zekiah's swamp, and rode
| out again to the road and started for the
| Potomac. DIR. Mudd told of Mr.. Lin
coins murder before the news reached
Bryanstown.
The accident to Booths leg was seri.
GUS thing. It is local belief in Lower
Maryland that Mr.. Cox, rich man Of
rebel utilization. allowed Booth and Har-
old to be fed by white man In the
woods on his farm, where they had some
kind of bush protection.
There was no certain account of the
two men from that Saturday, April Is,
| until the following Monday week, when
Booth and Harold appeared in Virginia.
1t is understood that Booths illness and
,al,.,. . helpless cowardice kept them
risoaers on the Maryland side, and
hey made repeated efforts to cross the
broad river, but in the darkness, or rain,
or wind, were blown to adjacent parts of
| the Maryland shore. Others think they
went directly to Virginia They lodged
there at one DIR. Stuart's on Monday
one week after the murder, on Matthias
point, and Stuart would not invite them
in. but sent them food to the barn.
Booth wrote him an indignant letter,
copying it out of his diary where he
composed it.
The two men now struck across the
country, as if they were going to Lynch
burg. The line of their short progress,
if produced, would pass along the rail
road and turnpike of Southwestern Vir-
| ginia to Cumberland Gap and East Ten
| nessee.
About ten miles from Matthias point
is King Georges Court House, and FIVE
miles further on is Port Conway, on the
Rappahannock river, opposite, a large
hamlet called Port Royal. on the south
bank. Booth and Harold, therefore,
travelled in straight line about thirty
miles after leaving DR.. Mudd's, April
Is, until April Is, when they were found
without horses, trying to get across
the Rappahannock ferry to Port Con-
way. 1t is said that their horses have,
never been found. Some have thought
that they were laden with stones and
shot in the river others think that i'm
plicated rebels buried these horses b.
keep the 7ultures off and prevent detec
ton. Quite probably they were found
loose, stolen and sold in Baltimore.
A negro, on the Maryland side, had
given information at Chappei's point
that he had seen two men crossing the
river in boat, and it was telegraphed
to Washington. Baker, the chief Gov
eminent detective, looked at his coast
survey map and saw that he could head
off any such party by sending steamer
down to Belle Plaine or to Acquia creek
and there discriminating 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 dispatched with
these men. Monday night 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 had 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 in 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 a
')dIus Ills OOuleU0rdGS IT10QQS mao Cr16Q
to have him taken care of in Port ROYAL
without success. To show the trihing
character of Harold, when he had put
Booth in CARROTS house, he v-ynt 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 stretcher ready for
him. They fred 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 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