Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-24

arrested on suspicion of association in the
plot and where hundreds of Washingtonians
were imprisoned on the charge of disloyalty
| to the United States. is standing.
The theater building in which Lincoln
was assassnated stands does the house
in which he died.
Not long ago there was some discussion
among old-timers as to which of the build
ings in the arsenal. the military court for
the trial OF the conspirators sat in but the
old buildings at last accounts were there
The site of the scaffold is not marked, but
a spot against the north wall and east of
the Al street gate is pointed out as the
grewsome place.
In Mount Olivet cemetery near the west
ern boundary and not far from the tracks
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad there
is a little marble headstone. stained by leaf
mold and the dripping and splashing OF the
rains Of forty-two years. 1t Is Inscribed
simply Mrs. Surratt."
Not all the landmarks that reeaif memo
ries of Wilkes Booths great crime are
standing. To make way for the new office
building of the House of Representatives,
the residence of Judge Joseph Holt. judge
advocate In the trial of the conspirators.
was torn down. 1t stood at the northeast
corner OF new Jersey dNeiluS anu u SNiSSe
southeast-the southwest corner of the new
office building. Judge Holt lived there for
many years and died there. The house was
| built about 1896 by Thomas Law, who was
associated with James Greenleaf. Morris.
Daniel Carroll and others In the disastrous
speculation in lots and buildings in the fed
eral territory or the District of Columbia.
Law was the husband of Eliza Custis. Sis
Washington
Parke Gusts Ghe builder of Arlington
Housed and granddaughter of Mrs. Martha
Washington.
In the news dispatch announcing the death
of Samuel Arnold it was said that only one
| of the Lincoln conspirators, John Surratt
survives Mary E. Su1ratt David E. Her
| old, George A. Atzerodt and Lewis Payne
were hanged. Samuel Arnold. DR.. Samuel A
Mudd and Michael O'Laughhn were SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment at hard labor
! and Edward Spangler to six years impris-
| onmerft at such penitentiary as the Presi-
dent should designate. They were first or
dered confined in the penitentiary at AL
bany, n. Y, but later sent to the military
prison at Dry Tortugas, Fla. All are dead
Men who were one way or another involved
| in the tragedy are now and then heard of.
| usually when they die Last winter there
| passed away a man who was known to, and
| liked by every old man-about-town in
Washington. He James Humphrey,
whom nobody thought of calling James, but
| just plain Jim Humphrey. Up to about the
| early eighties he kept livery stable on
| c street in the rear of the National Hotel
1t was Jim Humphrey who hired to John
Wilkes Booth the splendid horse on which
| he escaped from Washington.
| Booth had long been in the habit Of hir-
| ing horses from Humphrey and the livery
man had no suspicion of the use to which
the horse to be put When the news
of the crime went abroad. Humphrey, well
mounted, set out in pursuit of Booth TO re-
cover the horse. He was halted by the
military guard at the Washington end Of
the Anacostia bridge and was not allowed
to cross. Booth and Herold had crossed
before the alarm was given But for the
fact of being stopped Humphrey, knowing
southern Maryland and the people down
there, might have overtaken Booth.
Humphreys horse was killed by the fugi-
tives as they lay concealed In the woods of
Charles county awaiting ferriage across
the Potomac. Federal cavalry was scour-
| ing the country and the assassns feared
their horses might reveal them.