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

Oh neE trOOf1 III the meantlIne. Inc
public will o: serve that 1t wa. only on
the 10Th 6 April that the army OF Lee
surrendered at AppomattOx. Mr.. Lin
coin was murdered on the night Of the
18Th tl Apri. 1t WIS not till the 18Th
OF Aril that the remaining great army
Of II. Confederscy surrendered in North
Carollna. Booth, therefore, believed he
would have an nrIs.d COniederacy TO
escape 10. His feelings, intensified by
the surrender Of Lee on tho 18th, which
he did not know of till the 18Th. were
brought fn,.ly upon the purpose on
the morning Of the 18th, when he heard
that Iincoln wss to visit the theator III
hossor of Lees surrender. For six
months Booth had studied all thee,
roads aud avenues t6 escape, and had
spent nearly all the money that he pts.-
Rt'ssed i'll keeping his band together,
and there WAS still chance that joe
Johnston would hoId cut, or at any rate
there would be n guerrilla warfare
through the mountains, and the Con
iederates would rally again in the Gull
States or Texas. No doubt he said 10
himself, II will kill this man in the
v,ry moment of his celebrating Gen.
Lees conquest, and it will be Nh easy
thing for me to reach the Pot,meo b.
fore next morning and fall in with the
disbanded ConfedeIates, who are going
TO their homes, ard they will pass me
along to the mountains, and L can work
my way into NJ .xico, or, at the
worst, surrender with the rest"
Booth bad scarcely any education, ex-
cept that OF man of the world knew
nothing OF law, particularly of interna-
tional law, and had never heard of any
body heing hung in the war except his
friend, John BeaIl and the botel bum
mer X nnedy. He WAS desperate, d sSi-
pnted, out Of pocket, and had nursed mp
this conspiracy unt;I it possessed his in
tAllect. He saw it all slipr'ng away, and
he resolved to deal blow. His pi-,y,
was to shoe. Mr. Linroln after Mrs. Snr-
ratt had come back from Sulrattsvills,
show himself to the audiences as the his
triOhic aveng-r, vanish through the the
q. r and have the scenes bar the way
Lehind him, and go ont the back door
into ble alley where his horse was wait
ing, and then mount andr. ir 10 III wv
yard bri lge, where he was to meet Har-
Old, aud i'll the morning, before dav, he
would be ut Dr. Mudd-. Me.ntim.e At
zerodt WAS to stab Johnson at he Kirk
wood House, aud Payne to sta Seward,
and these two were tn cross the upp.'r
bridge OF the eastern branch, which
would compel them TO make detonr of
thr g or four miles, hut thev would join
him either at Snrrattsvile OF q. Mudd's,
and then tie four were ~ take to the
mo into
Va, and by 10 o'clock next .;yui:. Q the
Rappnhannock river wonll - b~tween
them and tn. Potomac. TIE fortifca-
tinrs Of Washington would he forty or
tfty miles behind them to tn northeast,
the army Of Grant was sway down below
the Appomastnx ri 10y, and there was an
open and friendly country TO go through
+, escape to 3outhv" stern Virginia and
Tennessee. This was probably Booths
programmes.
But Atzoroit was coward and . VA
grant, and he got drank. talked the
mnrdcr, rode his horso around town,
and, instead Of joining Bu,rn, he ran
away NJ iu.o Western Maryland among
the nGt;vs Dutch % biz cOnutcti .us. and
WAS caught t.>-re some time aft , ward.
ilAth oitCtt AoA fpDONll fOiucWilfIo
about Capt. oil hill, and they cross d the
Eastern branch bridge aimo,t within
sig hit Of each other. PAYNE aud4rtook
to fiud the upper brie,ge, bu: - the
night, the Roads cut up and leading Ill
every direction by reason 0. the military
Is. lie oonld not tiua the limo
leading to tho bridge, and finally, seeing
Iiat he could not catch Booth, he re-.
turned to Mrs. Surratt's house three
LII :. ts after the murder.
Mr.. Lincoln had be n killed Friday,
and on Monday night, about midnight,
Payne repaired back TO this doomed
woman's. II is probable that on Sstur-
day, Sunday and Monday he had been
tying to ma connections vita Booth,
but the wi, country being up. and
Lower Msry Iai4d filled with soldi,~y,
and he, perhaps, unacquninted with the
he knew hit what TO do with
himself, and came back to Mrs. Sarratt's
TO see If he could make connection with
John Surratt, whom he knew to be ON
Tho way back from Canada. Mrs. Sur
ratt, though very we'll acquainted with
having sceT, him. and this w.s s?o'""r
thread In tho rope 10 hang her - the
sallows.
Booth crossed the lower, or navy yard,
bridge before IL O'Clock Friday night.
He and Harold rode with such speed
over the high hills that little after mid
hight they were at Surrattsville. When
Harold went into the tavern he aroused
he drunken landlord. Lloyd, who had
,een drunk at Upper Marlborough court
II day. Harold said: "Lloyd, for
fod's sake make haste and get them
hings." "Mrs. Surratt hsd told me-"
aid tho landlord, "to give the carbines,
'hisky and field-glasses to whoever
allied for them. JohnSurratt deposited
Le c-rb'nes there q considerable time
efore. A rope and monkey-wronch
ad also been deposited, hut they we're
ot asked for, further showing that the
aurler was a different schens from that
I the capture. There WAS now nobody
, bind, and no vehicle to screw up.