The National tribune., 1909-12-30
L NAN.
Expianation:

1. Left Ford's Theater at 1890 p. m.,
April IA.
q At Snrrattvlle. midnight. April II.
3. At DR.. Mudd's from Il. M. TO p. m
April 10.
4. Near Br!ce's and lost. Heroid gets Os
well Swan for a guide.
5. Reach COX's and are placed by him II
'the thicket." April i6. Remain ther,
to afternoon of April q.
6. At Dents Meadows. are put in boat by
Jones, TO cross the river, evening OF
Z. Miss their bearings in the darkness and
stop Col. Hughss.. April ID.
8. Cross river and leave boat Mt bridge
over Gambo Creek morning Of April %.
Q. Stop over night In cabin OF VIM. Lucas.
April 23
TO- Cross ferry at Port Conway and arrive
at CARROTS farm April "a. Captured
and shot at 2:30 a. m, April 70.
miles from Washington. Both were ar
rested and sent on board the monitor
Saugus, where Edward Spangler. Sam
uel Arnold, Richard O'Laughlin and
DR.. Mudd were also confined. Later
they were separated, and part of them
put on board the monitor Montauk
Secretary Stanton ordered that, for bet
ter security against conversation, a
canvas bag be put on the head of each
and tied around the neck. with a hole
for proper breathing and eating. but
not seeing. He also ordered that Payne
tempt at suicide. No one was allowed
on board the monitors without a pass
signed Jointly by the Secretaries Of
War and the Navy.
Gains Desperate Flight.
In Milton's wonderful poem of Para
disc Lost there is a passage which ac-
curately describes Booths mad flight
from the scene of his awful crime:
(Which way shall fly,
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way l fly is hell: myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep.
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens
wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems
heaven"
Since the primal curse fell upon the
first murderer there never was a mad
der or more desperate flight from JUS
tice than that of the man whose brutal
hand was reddened with the best blood
that ever coursed in human veins. Like
all criminals. Booths mind was incapa-
BILE of conceiving the enormity of the
crime until after he had committed it,
and then its terrific consciousness
Swelled in him like possessing demon,
gripping, soaring, strangling every fiber
of his being. The hell within him
burned with consuming f1ame which
could not be quenched. For Sc miles
he galloped under its lashings and
those of fear of the vengeance which
would pursue him, while his body was
racked with the physical torture from
the grinding of the jagged bones in his
broken leg.
He had been Joined at the Navy
Yard by Herold, and they only paused
at Surratt'S tavern. where the drunken
keeper. Lloyd. brought out to them the
carbine, pistols and bottle of whisky
which Mrs. Surratt had left there for
them. Both drank deeply of the liquor,
and then galloped on.
Thus, with his cruelty spurred horse
almost dropping under him from IA
tigue, Booth arrived at the house of
DR.. Mudd, who gave him some relief
from physical pain by setting and
his leg. While plotting his
crime, stimulated and excited by the
traitorous whisperings of the more
cowardly Secessionists around him, he
had fancied that he was going to be-
come Brutus William Tell. Alone
with his awful deed after its commits
sion, he saw himself the most wicked.
the most insensate of criminals alb
horred even by the Southerners, who
saw direful consequences to them from
his malignant blow. In the diary which
was found on his body after his death
he said that he did not repent the blow
he had struck. II may before God, but
not before man." realizing at last that
he was abandoned" with the curse of
Cain upon him. DR.. Mudd says that at