Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-10-07
thread in the rope to hang her to the

he ana darOlu rOde with Sucn speed
over the high hills that's little after mid
night they were at Surrattsville. When
Harold went into the tavern he aroused
the drunken landlord, Lloyd, who had
been drunk at Upper Marlborough court
all day. Harold said "Lloyd, for
Gods sake make haste and get them
things" "Mrs. Surratt had told me-"
said the landlord, "to give the carbines,
whisky and field-glasses to whoever
called for them. JohnSurratt deposited
the carbines there a 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 and 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-
vate 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 thut he must stop
at Mudd's to have it set. Mudd set the
limb and made crutch for Booth, and
tried to get carriage for the party,
but the situation was very grave. Some
time during the Saturday, probably late
in the afternoon. Booth and Harold rode
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 eeri-
ous thing. It is local belief in Lower
Maryland that Mr.. Cox, rich man of
rebel affiliation, 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.
|
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
Harold's helpless cowardice kept them
prisoners on the Maryland side, and
they 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 1t.
Tue 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 aud East Ten
nessee.
About ten miles from Matthias point
is King Georges Court House, and Ave
miles further on is Port Conway, on the
| Rappahannock river, opposite, q 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 25, when they were found
without horses, trying to get across
! the Rappahannock ferry to Port Con-
way. 1t il said that their horses have
never been found. Some have though.
that they were laden with stones and
shot in the river others think that i'm
plicated rebels buried these horses to
keep the vultures oil 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 Chappel's point
that he had seen two men crossing the
river in boat, and it was telegraphed
to Washington. Baker, the chief Gov.
ernment detective, looked at his coast
survey map and saw that he could head
of any such party by sending steamer
down to Belle Plaiue or to AcGuia 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 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 oid wagon to Port Conway.
| and that one of them was lame. They
said TINT some disbanded Confederate
avalry of Mosby's command had be-
| tended these two men. got them across