Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-10-07

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 birth place, 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
barn. His Confederate friends had tried
to have him taken care of III Port Royal
without success. To show the trihing
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 returnce from the house to the barn,
it was surrou ded by the cavalry. Har-
old was 80 scared that lie gave himself
up, and they sent him in to make Booth
give up his arms, but Booth cursed him
for coward, aud saw his last time had
come. After some bravadp Of offering
to flight the whole command fair" he
told them to got stretcher ready for
linn. They fired the barn by pulling
tle straw through the cracks, and saw
him standing there i'll the illumination
lealling on the crutch DR.. Mudd had
made for him, and trying to get sight
pn somebody whom he could kill. At
that moment @ nervous or wilful SER
Eesnt among the soldiers fred at Booth
and struck him lii the back of the neck,
producing paralysis. of the spinal cord.
Dneof the detectives rushed in and seized
HIN, yet alive, and pulled him outs of
the combustion and Ibid him on the
grass. On Wednesday morning, about
Z o'clock, h. died on the porch at Gar
rett's house, muttering few words to
the effect chat 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
conld only whisper. He was heard dis
tinctly to say, however, in his intense
suffering, Kill me /! kill me |" A doc
tor arrived from Belle Plaine before he
died. He was sewed up in a saddle
blanket, put ON q rattle trap negro
wagon and hauled to Port Royal and
Belle Plaine, reaci 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
i'll the penitentiary yard at Arsenal
point. The cartilage which was struck
by the soldiers hall is IN the Army and
Navy Medical Museum. Most OF Che
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,
OLapshlin and Arnold. He behaved
very well dnring the yellow fever at that
port and was pardoned two of the
other persons died from the results of
dissipation. George Alfred 7oa0nsend.