Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-05-02
Volume XL.- mo. AZ.

place were the assassins Of President
Lincoln. after the war was all over.
The men were not invited into the
house, but were sent to an out build
ing of some kind, either the negro
quarters or the barn; and Booth was
so much chagrined at this welcome 10
Virginia that he took the diary which
was found on his dead body and wroe
letter in lead pencil to DR.. Stewart,
sorrowful rather than angry, saying
that he would not take hospitality ex
tended IN that way without paying for
it, aud sending three dollars.
Booth procured conveyance, or one
was procured for him, frcm DR.. Stew
arts to Port Conway; it was driven by
negro named Lucas. He probably
spent Sunday in Bryan's house, and
got to DIR. Stewards house, it is said,
on Monday, where he asked for break
fast, and the same day reached tue
Rappahannock River and went across
with Captain Jett. This crossing was
made on Monday, the twenty y-fourth of
April. That afternoon he was lodged
at CARROTS farm three miles back.
He spent the next day at this house
and slept in the barn. Being inform
ed that large body of Federal caval-
ry had gone up the read this Tues
day, he became much distressed. On
Wednesday morning, soon after mid
night, the cavalry returned, guided by
Captain Jett. The barn ives set afre
and Booth shot soon after 3 o'clock
in the morning. He died little af-
ter sunrise on Wednesday.
| may recapitulate Booths diary
during those days as Jones has indi-
Gated it. At ten o'clock F riday night
Booth shot the President. A little af-
ter midnight he was at Surratt's tav-
ern, where he received his carbine and
whisky q forgot to say that, among
the articles of comfort given to Booth
| by Jones when he went to the boat,
was u bottle of whisky) In gray
dawn OF Saturday morning Booth was
at DR.. Mudd S, where he had his leg
set, and a laboring white man there
hittled him crutch. On Saturday
night, near midnight, he was at Cox's
house, and some time between that
and morning was lodged in the pines,
where he remained Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday; and Friday night, between
eight and nine o'clock, he started on
the boat spent Saturday in Nanjemoy
Creek, and arrived some time Satur-
day night or before light on Sunday
at Mrs. Quesenberry's. 1t is under
stood that on the Virginia side he was
welcomed bv two men named Harbin
al -anfi } osepn Daddcn, the latter u whom
is dead. The boat in which Booth
crossed the river, he gave Mrs. Quesen.
berry, who was arrested. The boat
was put on war vessel and probably
carried to Washington.
A few days after Booth crossed the
river and had been killed, suspicion
turned upon both Jones and Cox.
The negro who had taken the fugitives
to Cox's gate gave Information. Ne
groes near Jones's farm said he had
recently concealed men, and showed
the cfficers a sort of litter or camp
about two hundred yards from his
house. Here, in reality, quite a diff
ferent fugitive had hidden some time
before Jones looked at it in his
mournful way. and expressed the opin-
ion that it was nothing but where a
hog had been penned up. He was
arrested and taken to Bryantown, and
kept there eight days in the sec'nd
story of the tavern where Booth had
stopped, and in sight of the country
Catholic church where Booth first
met DR.. Mudd and others, six months
before. Cox was there, but was IN
, two or three days sent to Washington.
The detectives from from all the cities
Of the East sat in the street under
Jones, and described how he was to be
hanged. He remarks of Colonel Wells:
,, He was most bloodthirsty man
, and tried to scare out of me just what
! I'm tellin' Of you now." In eight days
Jones was sent to the old Carroll prl-
:, son, Washington. There he contrived
, to communicate with Cox, who was
, completely broken in spirit, and told
him by no means to admit anything ;
: and when Jones, in about month,
+ saw Swan, the negro witness, going
q past his window toward the Navy
Yard bridge with satchel, Jones said
> > to Cox: "You have nothing to fear. y
] The Government soon released these
: men, who indeed had taken no part in
> Mr.. Lincoln's death, though they may
. have been accomplices after the fact.
! Jones was kept six and Cox seven
@ weeks.
Mr.. Jones is married again, and
now has ten children. He has filled
! some places under the Maryland and
. Baltimore political governments, and
' now keeps coal, wood, and feed yard
, in North Baltimore.