The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-06-15

would be gone for several months on hi,
Maryland expedition. Among thos;
who were TO accompany him were vii
liam Sowers, John Ii. Coke and Others
OF Norfolk, but when the time came u
depart all Of them backed down excep
Powell. Whether these men knew any
thing as TO the nature Of the expedition
| will not pretend to say. do know
they were intimate with Powell, and
that saw and overheard them talking
about their Maryland expedition" jusl
before Powell left the Piedmont section
POWELL LETT Fauquier some time in Jan.
uary, 1865. Miss Lily Bowie quite nat.
urally gives feeling description of heI
parting with Powell, who promised to
return within few months. She never
saw hiui again. The first iptimation
bliss Bowie had that Powell was one oi
the Lincoln conspirators was seeing his
picture in the illustrated report Of the
trial. When we were told man named
Payne had stabbed Seward it nearly
frightened US TO death. We all expected
to be hanged Miss Bowie went to
Washington during the trial, but did not
succeed in obtaining an interview with
Powell. She wrote to him, but does not
believe her letters were delivered, as she
received no reapons to her lettero. She
applied to Secretary Stanton, but he re-
fused her permission to visit the Jail, and
as the military commission by which he
was tried sat with closed doors, all efforts
to see her lover were in vain.
ASSUMING THE NAME o. PAYNE.
After leaving Fauqu;er, Powell went
to Noakesville, on the Virginia Midland
Railroad, where he left his horse and ex.
changed his uniform for suit of citizens
clothes. He then proceeded to walk
down the railroad towards Alexandria.
Near Alexandria he met some Federal
pickets, and representing himself as a
refugee was conveyed to Alexandria.
where he took the oath of allegiance to
the United States Government as Lewis
Payne, of Fauquier county, Va" and
was allowed to pass through the lines.
His reasons for assuming 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 a
name identified 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 those ter.
rible scenes were being enacted in Ford's
Theatre, on Tenth street, in Washington
when Booth had sent his fatal ball crash.
ing through the brain of Abraham Lin.
coin, and had leaped from the box to the
stage, brandishing dagger and rying
"Sic Semper lyrannis!" and the whole
audience was shocked, amazed and
stunned, and the wounded Presiden,
clutched and gasped for life, Lewis Pow.
ell presented himself at the residence ol
Secretary Seward, who had been thrown
from his buggy few days before and
was confined TO his bed, and asked to be
shown to the Secretary's room. He was
met at the doc by William II. Bell, q
colored butle-, who told Powell that he
could not sec .le Secretary. Powell held
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 hal
bent down over his eye. He spoke in 6
firm, but low tone of voice, and said ht
had been sent by Dr.. Verdi with .Iis
medicine, and with instructions to see the
Secretary in person and tell him how i
should be taken. After some hesitation
he was admitted by the butler, and when
he had ascended the stairs he was met by
Frederick Seward, who demanded tt
know his business, when Powell fellet
him to the floor, cutting him twice in thu
head with knife held with the blad,
down below his hand; he then turned
upon Bell and disabled him severely
He then proceeded to the room of th,
Secretary and was met at the door b,
Augustus Seward, whom he stabbed vel
nigh unto death, cutting him five or si,
times. Pushing his way into the sicI
room he was attacked by George F. Rob
inson, the nurse, and by f. w. Hansell
The former he wounded in the face ant
forehead with his knife and the latter b;
stabbed over the sixth rib to depth O
six or seven inches. Forcing his wa,
past the other attendants in the room b.
went to the bedside of Mr.. Seward ant
stabbed him three times, inficting ghast
ly wounds in his jaw, neck and breast
In the struggle the Secretary rolled OH
of bed and was lying on the floor in hi
blood when his physicians arrived, hi
attendants being utterly dazed by tn
sudden and terrible onslaught. OF hi
ferocious man.
THE CAPTURE.
The only words uttered by the assassi
during ail this awful conflict were, II ar
madp aud these were uttered in
strangely intense, but not a stron
voice." as described by the witnesses q
the trial. AS Powell left the dwellingc
the Secretary and mounted his horse b
slashed at the colored man who had he'll
his horse, cutting him about the fac
severely. He then threw the knife t
the ground, and riding out Vernon
avenue slowly for few squares, put spur
to his horse and rode out into the dark
ness and was seen no more until he wa
arrested in disguise at the house of Mr.
Eurratt, GAL II street N. W., in Washing
ton. When arrested Powell had one
his trousers legs rolled up, a skull ca
On his head and pickaxe on his shou
der. He said he had come to dig ditc
for Mrs. Surratt, but she denied an
knowledge of him. He was sent to til
headquarters Of Gen. Augur, and upo
an examination of the boots he wore on
of them was found to contain the nam
of John Wilkes Booth.
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