Evening star., 1915-02-07

Belle Plain and put on board the boat
to Washington. Reaching the capita.
1t was taken down the Eastern branch
to the old penitentiary- There. in one
OF the large cells. the stones wor"
taken UP. grave dug and the remains.
which were inclosed in a pine coitiii,
inferred They rested there till 1859.
when Booths brother Edwin had them
removed to Baltimore and buried in
the family lot in Greenmount cemetery
in that city.
II is impossible 10 find any marking
OF Wilkes Booths grave. There Is
none. The ivy growing on the base OF
the tall shaft to Junius Brutus Booth
Wilkes father-was lifted up. Il gray"
dug close in at the back OF the stone
and the bones OF the Inflated man re-
pose there to this day.
Booth was not the only ono to suffer
death for this murder. There were
many other conspirators. prominent
among them being Mrs. Surrat'. who
made her home at Goa II street north
west: George \. At7erodt, David Il.
Herold and Lewis Payne. or Powell. FOR
he was known hy both names. All four
OF these persons suffered death by
hanging as punishment :or their com
plicity in the crime. \ Or Mudd OF
MARYLAND, who assisted Booth both be
fore and after the deed, was also con
victed but his sentence WAS life one
in the Dry Tortugas.
While many believe that Mrs Surratt
of the court have always been to al
most every one cause of pity for the
woman who had to pay with her life
for the events of that great tragedy
II was known that Booth wao tire
ouent visitor at the Surratt house; that
payne and the others were meeting
Rooth there in her parlor; that she was
in constant communication with these
men and that on the very day of the
deed she had made statements which
showed she expected such q tragedy
al least that is the force OF the test
mony given in the court which con-
demned her.
Payne or Powell, was q southern man
who claimed to have come from Fau
quier county, Va. 1t was proven that
he was a great friend of Booths. that
he was implicated in the plots for the
abduction of Lincoln, and IL was show O.
conclusively that il was he who on the
evening of Lincoln's assassination went
to Stewards home with the intention OF
committing murder.
Payne gained admission to the upper
floor of the Seward mansion Here he
met the Secretary's SON FEELING that
Young man with "A blow, Payne started
into the Secretary's bedroom. but was
met at the door of the chamber by an
Gaining the bed in which Seward lay.
Payne bent over his victim and tried to
stab him with a dagger. Shortly be-
fore this the Secretary. on account OF a
broken law resulting from carriage
accident, had been Obliged to have IRON
braces put around his face. These
braces alone prevented the blows OF
Payne's knife from being fatal. Leav-
ing Stewards room, the man escaped
into the street, mounted his horse and
fed into the country. but was later on
captured.
David Z. Herold. who was fully as
guilty as Booth, was captured at the
time Booth was shot. Herold had
toined the assa ssin in his flight about
an hour after the murderer escaped
into Maryland and shared with the
actor all the dangers of the flight OF
many days in the muddy fields and
hunger of the chilly nights while run
ming for their lives. He was a stupid
man and no doubt was completely won
to crime by the fascinating personality
and oratory of Booth. who wished to
pose as a liberator of nation.
Atzerodt was also a simple person.
by birth German and by profession a
coach painter at Port Tobacco. Nd. He
became implicated with Booth in All
the plots against Lincoln's liberty and
life and there is no doubt that he was
fully aware of and aided in the assas-
sination.
These four persons. Mrs Surratt.
Payne, Atzerodt and Herold. were all
July in the courtyard of the jail. Severa |
others were tried. as being implicated.
and received lighter sentences Or were
freed. Among them was John Surratt.
the son of Mrs Surratt. John was but
a lad at the time. and this might have
acted as a weight in his behalf He es-
capped the country just before Lincoln
was shot, probably an hour or so. fed
to Canada, then to Rome, in which city
he was captured and returned to Wash
ington.
The building in which Lincoln died
on 10th street is now owned by the
collection of Lincoln relics which has
been the life work of Mr.. o. II. Old
royd. This work was begun in 1850.
and has continued ever since, until
now there are in this mass of material
thousands of newspaper clippings. hum
dreds of pictures, books. drawings.
badges. sermons. speeches ana every
imaginable thing connected with Lin
coins career.
Here are to be found the chair he
used in his office. his death mask. the
chair in which he sat when killed. -
rail split by his hand. theater bill
of Ford's of the night of the assas-
sination. Booths spur, a cooking stove
used by the Lincoln family, dozens OF
Lincoln-s articles of furniture, statu-
cites, autographs. the cradle in which
the Lincoln children were rocked. the
Lincoln family Bible-in a word. thou
sands of articles of every kind relating
to him.
There is nothing which could he
traced as having once belonged to
Lincoln that Mr. Oldroyd did not Sc
cure, IL purchas sable. And ii is safe
to say that his collection is the most
remarkable of it's kind in the world.
for il is the work of more than nifty
g.. n xrxafa "A MI nSf
solely to this one object
While the building belongs to tie
government the collection is still OWL
ed by Mr.. Oldroyd. to whom the writer
is indebted for the illustrations in this
article.
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