The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-19

'ode away from the home OF DIR. Sam.
w A Mudd. in Charles county Md.
~here mat morning they had found
sneiter and medical aid for the assas.
SIN. their trail. which by this time
hso peen X up by pursuing cav
airy ended as completely as foot
steps in water.
IL was nea nightfall when they
Ieit Dr. Mudd's house. taking an OBJ
scure road into the wilds of the Ze.
KAN swamp TO h westward, on their
way toward the Potomac. Darkness
overlook them as they rode slowly in
this wild region.
Booth suffered great pain from bis
broken leg The O was bad. and
the finally lost their way. west of
the village of Bryantown. which was
iour miles south OF DR.. Mudd's. Halt
Ing at a lonely wayside building. a ne.
gro church called Brice's chapel. they
held a conference.
Herold decided to push on in search
CT a road or a guide. Leaving Booth
alone by the little church, the young
er man rode westward a mile and a
haif TO a house-the shanty of a ne
gro. one Oswald Swami. Herold
aroused the negro. and with the
piomise OF money. persuaded him TO
20 10 wher Booth was and act as
their guide TO the home Of Col. Samuel
Cox. a man TO whose known Southern
sympathies Booth felt he could ap-
peal successfully for shelter and CON
cealment. Col. Cox lived II miles
west OF DIR. Mudd. and was his friend.
lie had known something of Booths
earlier wild plan TO kidnap Lincoln,
and doubtless had countenanced II as
a war enterprise.
About l o'clock in the morning OF
Easter Sunday. April 10. Col. Cox was
by a knock at his door. He
iound there a young man, and saw in
the moonlight a little way from the
gate a man on horseback. They re-
ouested that he take them in. He told
them that unless they could identify
themselves to his satisfaction he
could not give them shelter. The
President had been assassinated. and
he could entertain no He
then closed III door and returned TO
his bed.
5efriended by Col. Cox.
With this rebuff from the door OF a
Southern man Booth had the first evil
dence OF the worlds abhorrence of his
crime. There in the moonlight. in
the yard Of DIR. Cox's home. he held
smother conference with the weak
youth who was now his only reliance.
Then paying the negro 1ld Diminishing
him. Booth rode slowly to tbC shelter
OF a gully half a nile from the Cox
home. He knew Of no other place TO
20. and his physical suffering from his
broken leg was almost more than he
could bear. In the gully the two men
dismounted and threw themselves on
the ground TO rest.
In the early morning. being dis
turbed IN his mind by the midnight
call. and believing hat the men were
concealed ear his house. Col Cox
rode out and searched for them. He
soon found them In some pines. and
although they were armed they made
no EFFORT to prevent his approach.
Booth. always able 10 play upon the
sympathy ~ man or woman. begged
Col. Cox TO aid him. and having won
HIS promise. revealed himself a. the
assassin OF Lincoln. To prove his
identity he showed Cox his initials.
J w ~. in India ink on his right
wrist Cox. though he now knew what
already he must have suspected. vas
40 hlled with compassion for Booth
that he resolved 10 aid him to escape
Jones, the "Bloeksds Runner
The only person Col Cox knew who
could help the two fugitives across the
Potomac was Thomas \ Jones. HIS
foster brother. Who lived about four
miles southwest Of his home, toward
the river Jones during the war had
employed a. a nail carrier or
blockade unner for the C0nfeder.
ates. making frequent trips across the
Potomac and between Maryland and
Richmond. lie had been suspected.
but eve caught.
on Sunday forenoon Jones recssvsd
2 visit from the adopted o Of