Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-07-19
LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION
CoHiJaHcd [row Lasi Ueek.

Booth and Harold stood there Ave
minutes on the green before the tavern,
and took drink from tho whisky bot
tie, and Bsoth boastjngly cried out that
they had assassinated the President and
Seward. In the early morning Booth
rode to Mudi's house. Mudd says that
st 4 O'Clock he went to the window and
raw Booth sitting on horse and n talk
ative young man h 'l,iing that horse and
another horse from which he had dis
mounted It il well known, in his vain
performance in jumping from the pri-
vate box, Booth had fractured his leg.
This leads to the doubt ~ to whether
both had intended originally to stop at
Muld's hou.e at all. He might have
d,signed passing 10 the west OF Mudd's
house, which was cut Of his plain course
10 the Potomac, but when lie broke his
log it WAS inevitable that he must stop
st Mudd's to have it set. DIudd set the
limb ard made q criItch for Booth, and
, tried TO get carriage for the party,
but the situation WIS very grave. Some
time daring the Saturday, probably late
ia the afternoon, Booth and Harold rode
their horses III Zet ah's swamp, and rode
Ot!t again IT, the road aud started for the
Potomac. DIR. Mudd told Of Mr.. Lin
coins murder before the news reached
Brysnstown.
The accident to Booths leg WA q seri-
ors thing. 1t is local belief in Lower
Maryland that q MIR. Cox, rich man Of
renel aiiiliation. allowed Booth sud HAs-
old 10 bo feti by whita man in the
woods on his farm, where they had Some
Kind OF bush protection.
There was no certain account OF the
two men from that Saturday, April 10,
until tho following Monday week. when
Booth ami Harold appeared in Virginia.
1t is understood thai Booths i!lness and
Hsroid's helpless cowardice kept them
prisoners on the Maryland side, and
they made repeated efforts TO croas 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. Ssuart's on Monday
one ve,k after the murder, on Matthias
point. and Stuart would not invite them
ip. but seht them food to the barn.
Booth wrote him an indignant letter,
copying 1t cut Ct his diary where he
! composed it.
Ine two men now struck across the
country, ss II they were going to Lynch
burg. The line OF their short progress,
il produced. would pass along the rail
roai aud turnpike of Southwestern Vir-
ginia to Cumberland Gap aud Last Ten
pessee.
About ton miles from Matthias point
is King Georges Court House. and tivo
miles further on is Port Conway, on the
Rappsiiannock river, opposite, large
hamlet called Port Royal. ON the south
bank. Booth and Harold. therefore,
travelled ia 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 RappuhnnDock ferry to Port Con-
way. It is said that their horses have
never been found SoDe have thought
that they were la,,on with stones and
shot in tie river others think that i'm
plicated rebels buried thcse horses TO
keep the vuliiwes off and prevent deisc-
ton Quite probably they were found
loose, stolen and sold in Baltimore.
A negro, on the Maryland side, had
given information at Chappe,s point
that he had seen two men crossing the
river in boat, and it was telegraphed
10 Washington. Baker. tho chief Gov.
ernment detective, looked ut his coast-
survey map and saw that ho could head
or sa,y snch party by sending steamer
down to Bella Plaine or to Acquia creek
and there disembarking them, where
they would be only six or seven miles
from the Rappshannock river, and about
ten miles from Port Conway.
A steamer was at once dispatched with
those men. Monday night they landed
IN Virginia. sixty miles below Washing
ton city, and on Tuesday morning came
to Port Royal fsrry. They found that
the previous day negro had brought
from the direction Of thu Potomac two
men in IN old wagon TO Port Conway,
and that ono U them was lame. They
said that some disbanded Confederate
cavalry of Mosby's command had be-
friended these two men, got them across
the Rappahannock and had g.as toward
Bowling 0rssn, tho county seat Of Caro-
line, the nsxt county 70 the west: !
The pursuexs at once crossed the Zap.
pahannook, in sight Of President Madi.
sons birthplace, 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 tall what he had done with the two
fugdtives.
By this time the whole country was
Rllsd with the pallor Of the great trag-
edy, and the Confederates had dis
covered it to be as deplorable thing -
Nhe Federals had. MOsbys cavalryman,
therefore. pioneered the men back 70
CARROTS farm, in Caroline county
/ whore Booth had hidden himself IN
bArn. His Confederate friends had tnsd
70 have him taken care OF In Port hoyA
without success. T9 show the triding
character Of Harold, when he had put
Booth in CARROTS house, he went up 70
Bowling Green alone the next day,
Tuesday, and spent the day talking and