Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1882-06-22

tary Stanton, but he refused her per
mission to visit the Jail, and as the
military commission by which he was
tried sat with closed doors, alI efforts
to see her lover were in vain.
After leaving Fauquier, Powell went
to Noakesville, on the Virginia Mid
land railroad, where he left his horse
and exchanged his uniform for suit Of
citizens clothes. He then proceeded
to walk down the railroad toward Alex
andria. Near Alexandria he met some
Federal pickets, and representing him
self as refugee, was conveyed to Alex
andria, where he took the oath Of al
legiance to the United States govern
ment as Lewis Payne, Of Fauquier
county, Va" and was allowed to pass
through the lines. His reasons for as-
suming the name OF " Payne" can only
be accounted for upon the two-fold
hypothesis; first, that he wanted to hail
from section of the country with the
people and geography of which he was
familiar, and to select name identi-
fled with that section OF country;
second, he probably desired to take
name easily remembered, and one with
the connection and relationship Of
which he was familiar.
Precisely at the hour when these ter.
rible scenes were being enacted in
Ford's theatre on Tenth street, In
Washington, when Booth had sent his
fatal ball crashing through the brain Of
Abraham Lincoln, and had leaped from
the box to the stage, brandishing
dagger and crying, "Sic semper tyraA-
nus" and the whole audience was
shocked, amazed and stunned, and the
wounded President clutched and gasped
for life, Lewis Powell presented him
self at the residence Of Secretary Sew
ard, who had been thrown from his
buggy few days before and was con-
fined to his bed, and asked to be
shown to the secretary's room. He
was met at the door by William
Fl. Bell, q colored butler, who
told Powell that he could not see the
secretary. Powell had q small vial OF
medicine in his left hand, with his
right hand in his coat front. He wore
dark gray coat, black trousers, with
light overcoat and slouch felt hat bent
down over his eye. He spoke in firm,
but low tone Of voice, and said he had
been sent by DR.. Verd with the medi-
cine, and with instructions to see the
secretary in person and tell him how it
should be taken. After some hesitation
he was admitted by the butler, and
when he had assembled the stairs he was
met by Frederick Seward, who demanded
to know his business, when Powell
felled him to the floor, cutting him
twice in the head with knife held With
the blade down below his hand; he
tken turned upon Bell and disabled
him severely. He then proceeded
to the room of the secretary
and was met at the door by Augustus
Seward, whom he stabbed well nigh
unto death, cutting him five or six
times. Pushing his way into the sick
room he was attacked by George f.
Robinson, the nurse, and by e. w.
Hansell. The former he wounded in
the face and forehead with his knife
and the latter he stabbed over the sixth
rib to depth of six or seven inches.
Forcing his way past the other attend
ants in the room he went to the bed
side Of Mr.. Seward and stabbed him
three times, ipaicting ghastly wounds
in his jaw, neck anu breast. In the
struggle the secretary rolled out Of bed
and was lying on the floor in his blood
when his physicians arrived. his attend
ants being utterly dazed by the sudden
and terrible onslaught Of this ferocious
man.
The only words uttered by the assas-
sin during all this awful conflict were:
ssI am mad !" and these we're uttered in
6 strangely intense, but not strong
voice. as described BY the witnesses at
the trial. AS Powell left the dwelling
Of the secretary and mounted his horse
he slashed at the colored man who had
held him, cutting him about the face
severely. He then threw the knife to
the ground, and riding out Vermont
avenue slowly for few squares, put
spurs to his horse and rode out into
the darkness and was seen no more
until he was arrested in disguise at the
house Of Mrs. Surratt, No. SAL Fl street
N. W., in Washington. When arrested
Powell had one OF his trousers legs
rolled up, skull cap on his head and q
pickax on his shoulder. He said he
had come to dig ditch for Mrs. Sur
ratt, but she denied any knowledge Of
him. He was sent to the headquarters
Of General Augur, and upon an exami-
nation of the boots he wore one Of them
was found to contain the name Of John
Wilkes Booth.
The Cost Of Fences.