Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-07-12

widow about Az years old. Ihe LADIES
never had such an elegant acquaintance
as Booth, and C soon got power over
tlem and oveg their country friends.
John Surratt was kept in Lower Mary
land running the blockade, CARRYING the
rebel mail and picking up little money,
and ind Ilging il some visions of wealth
to be got through Z >oth's g"ni':: :: t.
ratt made one or two visits ~ Rlt :
mond. and the rebel Secretary of
State intrusted him with packages to
Canada.
Booth wne q native of HN'or1 conn
r., MARYLAND. anl had its local patriot
ISM. Hs WA sn actor III Richmond at
the time John Brown was hung, and
went up to sce the execution. There he
net John T. ", ~ who WAS afterward
hung on Governors isard, and their
acquaintance WIS very confidential.
Booth lahored hnri II have II sii par
doned by Lincoln, but Intellectually.
Beall bad been a pirate about the mouth
OF the Potomac at the beginning OF the
war, ard afterwsrd on the iakrs and
was one Of the set OF :; ;ouDg despe radoes
in Canada, and he was hung on the 24th
OF February, 1865, on q ,vernrr's island
About eight weeks after that Booth shot
Lincoln, and some ray that his original
ambition, to make him prisoner, had
given way to revenge ON BealPs .cc cunt.
Booth, whose boyhood WAN mainly spent
in Baltimore, had two schoolmates
named Arnold and OI.auQhln, over
whom he had marked influence, and
who were both impecunions ana ,iissi
pated. He tempted them into his or
iginal scheme to capture Lincoln. hut
when they fcund it was to De murder
their ideas were confirmed th"t Booth
was crazy man, and they left him. A
poor, vulgar, W ieky-ridd"n scene-
shifter at Ford's 1he~ter, ham s pan
gler, WAS ultimately used for the nssss-
sina;ion scheme by Booth. He tried to
tempt several actors into the plot, no
doubt desiring some intellectual asso,i-
ates, or men Mt wt above the vulgar
grade of his Narylsnders The man
Powell who was tried under til name of
Payne was q Young bel desperate fyc,n
Georgia or Fl Irlda. who hud probably
been sent to Booth from among the
guerrillas. lIe WAS the only ona who
did his part with the stolidnass and obe-
dience Of II "Qu ntrel, jams or a
Younger" At Mrs. Surratt's house in
Washington al this iun'o we're il the
habit OF nico'iug. They M-o met ut
d. mixing honse on Lonsiaaa avenue, on
the second foor. Individual members
OF thi crowd world coli on Booth at the
National Ilote', where he toard,d.
Mrs. Surrats's house in Washington
was III p,rt.tularly isolated yet CEN
trail portion Of tho town, on the edge OF
judiciary square. which was then a mere
common, aud beyond, toward the east
ern branch, the country was all goose
pa>ture, without graded streets, and cut
uI' hy army teams. Mrs. Surratt's part
in the business WIS allowing both her
self and her hou.e t. be used by siirs
and assassius. while she was living iii
tlr Federal lines under protection, and
het family hal taken the oath aud they
icr, ived rassrl and safeguards. It seems
probable that Booth hastily resolved to
kill Lincoln Oh thu particular day it WAS
and had only that day t,
do hs work NO he laid hands on what
t. ol- were NEAR by. Atzero1s, Payne
and Harold wero in IN. city. He hired
horses for them from the livery-s!ables
4s so.,n as he h. ard Lincoln was to he at
the thrhter. J,,hn Surratt was of in
Cnnad,, an,i he WAS making his way
la. k at the time of the murder. Booths
bassness consisted in going to Mrs Sur
rats house and getting her to do his er-
rants, accessory tO the assassination, at
S.lrrattsviile that afternoon. He gave
her the money to hire a buggy and take
q fl I'D glass Ont with her, and tell her
tenant to be up at midnight and have a
bottle of whisky ready, ~ the guns
depos!ted at the tavern
would be called for about that
hour. The foolish woman, probably
enamored Of the man, did his behest.
She got q clerk who boarded in her
house to drive her all that ton miles
over the hills to Surrattsville and back
again, and he had to give the testimony
against her. She started out about 3
Or o'clock in the aftt. moon, and did not
reach Washington again till nearly 8
o'clock at night. Ten minutes after she
some one rang her door-ben
md abe attended to it in person. The
besrder thinks it was Booth, who had
come to see il she had performed her
errand and il everything on the road was
clear. In an hour or so afterward the
President was shot. II Surrstt he'd re-
t1rned to Washington city either at tho
ime Of the trial before the military CON-
or before The time fixed for his
execution, her life would have
been spared. But he remained ON the
,outh aide of the st. Lawrence river.
within . few miles Of Montreal, hid.
fsn in . house. and never stood
nth to save Aar. President johnson.
,erefore, refused to grant her pardon,
nd she wa hung with Atzerodt, who
'ss TO have murdered President john
m; Harold, the companion Of Booths
light. and Payne. who stabbed Mr..
eward. Regrets were felt that wom-
n should suffer 80 ignominiously, and
johnson and Judge Advocate
[olt long afterward had q sharp contro-
ersy on the subject. Both were South
m Unionists-Holt, = native OF Ken
icky, and johnson from Tcnncssea.
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