St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-22

fractured what is commonly known as
the skin-bone of his right leg. He
nopped on one foot to the rear
door, had much difficulty in mount
ing his horse on account of
the great agony the fracture
caused, but finally did so and escaped
from the city. Intense suffering and a
rail- from his horse forced him to 20 out
OF the nearest path of escape to procure
the medical aid of DIR. Mudd, whom he
knew, anddo that act alone the physi-
can owes his Involvement. Otherwise
Booth would have pursued the direct
route TO the Lower Potomac.
There is now to be considered the
question whether John Wilkes Booth
young man OF the personal attractive
ness already described, of a family of
great professional distinction. with the
world before him, of undaunted cour-
age, liberal with his purse to profuse-
ness, eloquent and persuasive with his
tongue-waS not the very man to lead
Payne and others into conspiracy to
abduct the ruler of great nation and
to carry him into captivity. To them.
ardent Sympathizers with the South as
tney all were. the plot was full of faS-
citation and seemed within accomplish
ment. Ii successful. it would have
startled the world and made heroes of
tnoSe participating in it. Both of the
theaters in Washington were considered
favorable places to make the capture at
night, and. after rush from the city
and down through the peninsula, if I'M
interrupted, daybreak would have found
them across the river and within the
confederate lines. 1t was also planned
to make the capture either on the 4th of
March, or as near it as possible, and Oh
the street If opportunity permitted.
Booths alleged cause for conspiring
TO abduct was to force, if successful, an
exchange OF prisoners. He quoted to
his followers how it had been done in
past ages, and, in his talk among his
acqualntances, the only time he eX-
hiblted feeling was when criticiSing the
national authorities for refusing to ex-
change. He blinded Mrs Surratt entirely
as to his plotting with her son: his posi-
ton. means, and pleasant manners evil
IDENTIFY won her admiration and conf
dence; she was proud of such visitor,
and at her house he could confer in a
secluded room, with impunity, with his
confederates, without her dreaming of
his ultimate purpose. lie was well known
to her that at the hotel his asso-
Citations were the very best. He could
learn from Weichman, at her house, he
being employed as clerk under
Colonel Hoffman. the Commissioner of
Prisoners of War, their locality, num-
Der, etc., without suspicion. 1t is a
matter of unpublished. but easily
proved history, that Booths associates
i'll crime, whether in the projected alb
ductiOn or the assassination, de-
MED most soiemnly that Mrs.
Surratt had any part what
ever il the plot to abduct; but. on the
contrary, they were warned over and
over again to keep all knowledge from
her. AsSeyeratiOns were made also by
those who were executed, on the day of
their death. of her entire innocence of
their crime. Arnold and 0'Loughlin,
before going to the Dry Tortugas, pro-
tested that she was not known in any
way in the conspiracy to capture and
convey to Virginia the person of the
president.