The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-17
Payne's Bloody Work.

Finally Payne turned away and took
Few steps down stairs Then with a
sudden turn he sprang back again and
dealt Frederick Seward several blows
in the head with a revolver. He also
slashed him with knife. and appar.
emily having killed him. entered the
sick chamber.
At the door he struck down the
nurse with a blow OF a knife in the
forehead and springIng forward at.
tackled the recumbent figure in 'he
bed. with repeated stabs. An iron
frame that held the broken Jaw I'm
place turned the knife more than
once.
The nurse (Sergt. George r. Rob
inson). now grappled with the muir
and wounded Secretary fell OF the
] bed. between Il and the wall as IL
CHANGED to safety.
AS the nurse and Payne were locked
In fierce embrace. Maj. Seward en-.
tered the room. The gas was turned
uppermost Of the struggling figures
IL was Payne.
With both Mai Seward and the
| nurse attempting to put him out OF
the room. Payne struck repeatedly al
Mai Stewards head with his knife
crying In an intense but not loud
voice. Il am mad! | am mad"
Near the door Payne knocked the
nurse down with a blow of his first
but Mai. Seward still chung TO hin
until they reached the hall. There
Payne broke away from him and. In
fiicting a deep wound upon the other
nurse IL. w. HanselD, who barred his
4 flight. he threw away his knife. leapet
down the stairs. left the house bare
headed. mounted and rode of. turn
/ ing into Vermont avenue.
II (Of the 1--WE wounded men Payn,
left behind him. Frederick Seward
| was the most seriously hurt. His skull
was broken and for several days ht
lay unconscious. His life was despair
| ed Of. but he recovered. Sec. Sc
wards wounds were a cash in the
right cheek and two in the neck. His
recovery was rapid
| In the Governments Net
| Three hours after the bloody scene
was found. in weller OF sweat, 2
mile east OF the Capitol. He had
thrown his rider. Where Payne went
| after his fall. or how he spent his
time until Monday night. is not
known. IL Is assumed he hid in the
woods on the eastern outskirts of the
/ city.
on the day OF Mrs. Surratt's and
Payne's arrest the government caught
in its net two others OF Booths ssso
ciates I'm the KIDNAPPING plot. They
were Samuel Arnold. who had parted
4 from bOONn ON April I. ana nhn zone
10 work in a suffers store at Fort
! Monroe. and Michael OI>auehlin, N
! Baltimore. Arnold was not in Wash
! lnRton on April II. O'LauRhlin was
there TO witness the illumination In
celebration OF peace. but apparently
did not see Booth.
A third arrest this day was that Of
I Edward Spangler. scene shifter Al
Ford's Theater. Booth had asked
Spangler TO hold his horse for him
when he entered the thester TO com
nit the crime. and Spangler. who
was busy. turned the horse over TO a
negro lad. 10 WAS charged that Spang
lor cleared the stage and kept the
back door OF the theater open to aid
Booth in his escape. and that he fitted
the bar behind the corridor door by
| which the door was secured by Booth
before he fired. None % these
( charges was proven)
The authorities still sought another
| OF Booths associates who had been
/ with him on the night OF the crime
/ This was George A. Atzerodt. the
/ doltIsh German who was ordered "a
kill Vice President Johnson. lie had
taken room a. Mr. Iohnson's hotel
/ but had lacked purpose TO strike. and
I had spent the evening In riding about
/ the city and visiting saloons.
Next day he wandered out 81 Wash.
] inEton. making his way 10 Harnesville.
I Mont gomory county. Maryland. where
/ on April 20 he was arrested ~ the
house OF relative
Monday: Booth a. the home OF Or.
NUdd
I Copyright. 1915. by Winfield ~
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