The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-08-13

about Booths movements and about the
success of the parties sent out 10 seek for
him. and at last came the startling news
| that he had actually been found in Vir.
ginia and shot down by Boston Corbett.
One day Capt. Lunsford said. II am 10
he on duty at the penitentiary tomorrow.
You can come up in the morning when
take over and receipt the prisoners. and
so have a chance TO look over the lot OF
conspiratorS that We have corralled so far.
The public is not allowed TO see them yet.
but you can take guns. fall in and 90
along with me. They are a meaSly. egg
sucking looking lot. More like fellows
who would rob a hen-rooSt or a smoke
house than kill President
They found the prisoners all in separate
cells and each a ghastly sight, for over
each ones head had been drawn sack
which was tied around his neck-at the
mouth. A hole had been slit in the sack
for the prisoners mouth, and this was tho
only opening.
The first was Spangler. n drunken. half
witted loafer. who was Booths lackey
around the theater. and had been desig-
mated TO bar the stage door and prevent
pursuit
The next was DIR. Mudd. of Maryland,
who had set Booths broken leg and con-
cealed the fact from the scouts and sol
diers. He was rather good-looking man
| of about 40. with light sandy hair and Il
low forehead. and looked the country prac-
| TONER he was
The next was Atzerodt. low-browed,
lank-haired. very ordinary looking sort OF
4 scoundrel with prOtruding teeth, and
| seemed to tit Capt. LunSford's idea of be-
| ing calculated for no higher villainy than
| petty larceny. He was the man who had
been told off to kill VicePresident john
| and hoI fol NJ
Johnson's at the KirkwOod House, but his
heart seemed to fail him at the critical
moment. and he fled without attempting to
accomplish his purpose.
| The third was O'Laughlin. who looked
| the stage villain of ranting melO-dramaS,
with his mass of black hair on head.
cheeks. lip and chin. and bright. black.
| shifty eyes. He had been assigned to kill
either Gen. Grant or Secretary Stanton,
but his nerve failed him at the critical
| time.
Another hen-roost bandit said Shorty
contemptuously. as they moved on. He
might. however. rise to highway robbery
of drunken man if pushed hard"
| Next came Samuel Arnold. well built.
presentable sort of man. with n clerkly
appearance. He had been n schoolmate
of Booths and in the rebel army. He
had been in the plot to abduct the Pres-
dent, when his part was to seize him in
his box. and throw him onto the stage to
| the Others Later he withdrew from the
conspiracy, and went to clerking in SUIT
| lers shop. and was arrested on account
of letters from him found in Booths ROOM
Then came Herold. Booths companion in
his fight. and who weakened and snrrend-
| cred when the barn was surrounded He
was an understood, thin-haired. weakened
| man. scarcely more than n boy, who had
been drug clerk and tried half dozen
other things without success.
Another clothes-line brigand" COM
mented Shorty, as they left him.
Booth was represented to have great
| fascinating powers but he certainly gath
cred around him decidedly inferior look
| ing lot of accomplices.
| This was not true. however, of Louis
Payne Powell. indicted and tried as Louis
| Payne. stalwart, alert. bold young man
of "A, who had served in the rebel army,
been wounded at Gettysburg deserted his
regiment, and who made such a desperate
| fight. beating and stabbing the Secretary's
son. Geo. Robinson. the soldier who was
attending the Secretary, and the Secre-
| tary himself. whose life was only saved
! by the steel mask he Wore to hold his
broken jaw in place.
That fellow is n terror" said Can't.
Lunsfortl. as they walked away from tho
cell. There's more courage and deter
III ulLH luIU I'LL OF the rest DuC
together"
Yes answered Shorty. 'he is the style
Of man that | would like to meet in the
| open. He looks worth while tackIing.'
Each of the prisoners had his feet
| manacled, and besides had his hands held
apart by stiff manacle." bar of iron
about IA inches long. ending in rings that
passed around his wrists.
Finally they came to the cell OF Mrs.
| SvrF1tt n whpsa bnuSa bo h.,
been in the habit of meeting. where the
plans of abductlng and finally numbering
the President had been discussed. and
where the prisoners had arms and whisky
ready for them. Mrs. Snrratt had always
been an ardent Secessionist. She had one
son in the rebel army. and another, John
H.. had been aiding and abetting the re-
beilion In many ways, was one of the con-
| splrators, and was now a fugitive from
| justice.
| At the time of her marriage Mrs. Sur
raft was the belle of Prince George Coun-
ty. Md, and was now a wellpreseryed,
rather comely matron of 45.
! She also was manacled. but spared the
additional ignominy Of the sack over her
head
| While the boys and their wives were
at supper that evening, the servant an
nounced:
| There's n mighty fine gentleman and
an awful roush-looking soldier in the par
lor waiting for you"
| 81 and Shorty exchanged glances and
rising. soon went into the parlor. where
seated Il little apart We're Solomon Rosen-
baum and Boston Corbett. Solomon
Rosenbaum. arrayed as Solomons lilies
certainly never were, and Boston Corhett,
his uniform still bearing the marks of the
mud and rain of Virginia and his eyes
blazing with light from which had not
yet faded the impulses of that moment
by the burning barn on CARROTS farm.
Ito be continued)
WE actually begin to have some points