The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-04-10

1 came from Samuel Cox's to Jones SEQ
ond farm, called Huckleberry which
has been already described as about
two and half miles back from the old
river residence, which Jones had been
forced to give up when it appeared
probable that the Confederate cause
was lost. The Huckleberry farm con-
sisted of about 500 acres, and had on
it one-story -and-garret house, with a
low pitched roof, end chimneys, and
door IN the middle. There was sta
BILE north of the house, and q barn
south of it, and it was only three-quar-
| ters of a mile from the house to the
river, which here runs to the north to
make the indentation called Port To-
bacco Creek or river. Although Jones,
therefore, had moved some distance
| from his former house, he was yet
very near tidewater. The new farm
was very much retired, was not on the
public road, and consisted of clearings
amidst rain-washed hills and deep gull
lies, almost impenetrable short pines,
and some swamp and forest timber
Henry Woodland, the black servant,
who was then ~ years old, was still
Jones chief assistant, and was kept al
ternately farming and fishing
The young man who came from Cox's
was told if stopped on the road to say
that he was going to Jones' to ask if he
could let Cox have some seed corn,
which in that climate is planted early
in April. He told Jones that Col. Cox
wished him to come Immediately to his
house, about three miles to the north.
The young man mysteriously intimated
that there were very remarkable visitors
at Cox's the night before Accustomed
to obey the summons of his old friend,
Jones mounted his horse and went to
Cox's. Cox's property, called Rich
Hill, made an agreeable contrast to
the somber short pines which at no
great distance seemed to cover the plain
almost as thickly as wheat straws in the
grain-field.
Taking Jones aside, Cox related thst
the previous night the assassin of Pres
ident Lincoln had come to his house in
company with another person, guided
by negro, aud had asked for assistance
to cross the Potomac River; "and, said
Cox to Jones, you will have to get him
across" Cox indicated where the fugi-
tives were concealed, perhaps one mile
distant, q few rods west of the present
railroad track, and just south of Cox's
Station. Jones was to give signal by
whistling in certain way as he APP
preached the place, else he might be
fired upon and killed. Nobody, it is
believed, ever saw Booth and Herold
after this time in Maryland besides
Cox's overseer, Franklin Roby, and
Jones. Cox's family protest that the
fugitives never entered the house at all !;
his adopted son, still living, says Booth
did not come into the house. Herold,
who was with Booth, related to his
counsel, as the latter thinks, that after
they left Mudd's house they never were
in any house whatever in Maryland.
The negro who was employed to guide
Booth from DR.. Mudd's to Cox's testified
that he saw them enter the house; but
as the Government did not use him on
the trial, it is probable that he related
his belief rather than what lie saw.
But there is no doubt OF the fact that
when d.. Mudd found Booth on his
hands Saturday with broken ankle,
and the soldiery already pouring into
Bryantown, he and Booth and Herold
became equally frightened, and in the
early evening the two latter started by
n road to the east for Cox's house, turn
ing Bryantown and leaving it to the
north, and arriving about or before
midnight ut Cox's. There the negro
was sent back. Herold advanced to
the porch and communicated with Cox,
ana Booth sat on his horse off toward
! ha 10 hn tv,n oaI
Cox after they backed out to where the
negro was-he remaining at the outer
gate-and said that Cox was no gentle
man and no host. These words were
probably intended to mislead the negro
when they sent him back to DR.. Mudd's.
This negro was arrested, as was
colored woman in Cox's family, and
with the same remarkable fidelity /
have mentioned, the woman confronted
the negro man and swore that what he
said was untrue.
Nevertheless, Booth and Herold were
sent into the short pines, and there
Jones found them. He says that as he
was advancing into the pines he came
name, and tail, and white star on the
lOreuedu she WAS Shuuleu, anu rowing
around in little cleared place as ii
trying to nibble something to eat.
Jones took the mare and tied her to
tree or stump. He then advanced and
gave what no calls the countersign, or
whistle, which he does not precisely re-
member now, though he thinks it was
two whistles in peculiar way, and q
whistle after an interval. The first
person he saw was Herold, fully armed
and with carbine in his hand, coming
out to see who it was. Jones explained
that he had been sent to see them, and
was then taken to Booth, who was but
few rods farther along.
Booth was lying on the ground,
wrapped up in blankets. with his foot
supported and bandaged, and a crutch
beside him. His rumpled dress looked
respectable for that country, and Jones
says it was of black cloth. His face
was pale at all times, and never ceased
to be so during the several days that
Jones saw him. He was in great pain
from his broken ankle, which had
suffered fracture of one of the two
bones in the leg, down close to the foot.
1t would not have given him any very
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