The Washington herald., 1915-04-18
BY WINFIELD M. rHoMpso

| DAN VIII Il. hEhOLD, bOOII
The Picture Shows Herold After His
| TrifinE Character. He
Photo by Gardner III the Il
1t was 4 o'clock on the morning OF
| April Il, nearly six hours after he had
| shot down Lincoln that Booth, accom-
panied by IIerold, his guide, drew rein
before the door of DR. Samuel a. Mudd,
Twenty-Five miles south of Washington,
! in Charles County, Md.
/ Every moment gained by the assassin
| in his flight was precious 10 him, for
! cavalry would soon be on his trail, hunt
| inS him down; hut he WAS in agony from
! his broken leg. and OvcrtaXcd nature
now called :: halt. Furthermore he felt
! that in this region. on the border he
/ tween NrI tn and South. he would not
/ b. subject to questioning: the people
I There rad long since ceased to question
| strangers. Yet Booth did not rely on a
. slight acquaintance with Dr. Mudd as a
/ safeguard and rode to the doctors door
7 disE uished by Il false beard and n shawl
about his neck.
! Dr. MuGd was a harG-workinS. honest
country practitioner, y years old. living
Nth tiS wife and four young children
on a farm. His home was about four
miles northeast of Bryantown. but not
on the direct road from Washington. 1t
stood somewhat back from the road. al
tn" head Of narrow bog, some fifteen
miles long, known as the Iakiah swamp.
one Of the numerous feeders of the WI
Comico River, u tributary of the Poto-
mac
DR.. Mudd's sympathics were with the
South. but beyond shclterinG small
! band Of Confederate soldiers for n few
days on his ,Iace in 1851 he had taken
80 active part in the war.
pr. Mud had met Booth in the pre-
Crding November, when Booth went into
Charles County to learn the roads to
the Potomac, in preparation for his pro-
rosed kidnapping of Lincoln. DIR. Mudd
had then EceE introduced to Booth at
church and Booth had been his unde-
sired guest that night. having asked
the doctor to direct him to a MAI. who
could sell him p horse. DR.. Mudd had
next met Booth accidentally on the
street in Washington on December y,
and had introduced him. at Booths re-
quest. to John II. Surratt
When Booth came to his door at dawn
with a broken leg. wearing a beard and
with his face muffled in a shawl. DIR.
Mudd saw he was a suspicious charac-
that he did not penetrate Booths dis
guse.
Setting Booths Broken Leg.
DR. Mudd had not felt well in the
night of April Il, and when his SUM
Der was disturbed by loud knock at
his door he asked his wife to see what
was wanted She demurred, and the
doctor. in his night clothes. went to
the door. There. in the gray light of
a lowery dawn. he found a young man
standing holding the brides of two
horses, on one of which another man
was mounted.
The man at the door said that his
friend had suffered broken leg from
his horse stumbling and falling on him
and was in great need of medical at
tendance.
DIR. Mudd at once said he would do
what he could for the man. and. slip
ping on some clothing. he helped assist
the wounded traveller from his horse
and into the parlOr, where, with a
groan. he sank upon a lounge.
The doctors wife having brought a
candle, DR.. Mudd began an eXamina
ton of the wounded mans leg. He
found it so swollen that his riding boot
could not be drawn off. While his wife
prepared bandages and splints the doc
tor. aided by Herold. helped Booth up
stairs. and as he lay upon a bed cut
the boot from his injured leg. He
found that the small front bone, or
fibula, had been broken at right angles
about two inches above the instep. He
set it as best he could, binding it up in
splints improvised by cutting up al
wooden bandbox.
HerOld at DIR. Mudd's Table.
During the operation Booth lay with
the shawl still about his neck and his
face turned to the wall. DR.. Mudd left
him thus, in the care of his friend.
There was a bed for each in the. room
At breakfast time Booths companion
came downstairs and partook of the
meal with the family. He said that his
name was Tyson and that his friend
name was Tyler. They were on their
way to the Potomac, he said, and he
asked how far it was to the river Dr.
Mudd told him eighteen or twenty
miles.
Herold. or Tyson" talked as cheer
fully and glibly at DIR. Mudd's break
fast table as II he had not q care In
the world. He mentioned the names OF
various Maryland families. Mrs. Mudd
asked him II he was a resident of the
county. and he answered. mo maam.
but I've been frollicking around for
five or six months"
The doctors wife. with motherly So
licitude, was moved by the young
mans manner to admonish him with
the words: All play and no work
makes Jack q bad boy. Your father
ought to make you 20 to work"
Herold replied lightly that his father
was dead. ana that he was 'ahead of
the old lady"
In his talk the young man revealed
the weakness OF character that had made |
Mr.. q vfllfnR AuDn a. DDofh n thu