The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-17

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functions on his agent about o'clock.
and about 10 Payne, decently dressed
and wearing gray oyercOat, rode up
TO the Seward home.
Mr.. Seward lived in a large, hand
some old mansion diagonalIy across
the park from the White House a
theater now stands on it's siteD On
the evening of April II the Secretary
lay in bed in a front chamber up two
flights. suffering from Il fractured jaw
and broken arm, injuries sustained in
runaway accident ten days before.
Two hospital stewards attended him.
His two sons. Frederick Seward, As
slstant Secretary of State, and Angus
tus III. Seward, major in the army,
occupied rooms in the house
AT 10 O'Clock d colored lad on duty AT
the door answered a ring TO find Payne
there. holding in his hand "A package.
lie said he came with medicine from DR..
L. >. Verdi. Mr.. Stewards physician, and
must explain in person how the medicine
was to be used. The doorman answered
that he could allow no one TO 90 nm
Payne, still holding the package, CON
WINGED the servant that he should go I'D.
AT the top of the second flight of stairs
he was met by Frederick Seward, who
asked his business and told him he could
not enter the sick room
Pnyne's Bloody Work.
Finally Payne turned away and took a
few STEPS down stairs. Then with d sud-
den turn he sprang back again and dealt
Frederick Seward several blows in the
mead with revolver. He also slashed
MIN with knife. and apparently having
Killed him. entered the sick chamber
AL the door he struck down the nurse
with blow of a knife in the forehead.
and sprinSing forward attacked the re-
cumbent figure in the bed. with repeated
stabs An iron frame that held the
broken jaw in place turned the knife
more than once.
The nurse (Sergt. George F. ROBINSON
now Grappled with the murderer. As
they began to fight the sick and wounded
secretary fell off the bed between it and
the wall, as II CHANGED to safety
AS the nurse and Payne were locked
In herce embrace. Maj. Seward en-
tered the room. The gas was turned
low, and in the dim light he seized the
uppermost of the struggling figures. II
was Payne
With both Mai. Seward and the nurse
attempting to put him out of the room,
Payne struck repeatedly at Mai. Sew
intense. but not loud voice, Il am mad
/ am mad,'
Near the door Payne knocked the
nurse down with a blow of his fist, but
MAJ. Seward still chung to him until they
reached the hall There PAYNE broke
away from him and, infiictinG a deep
wound upon the other nurse (E w. Ham
seiD. who barred his fight, he threw
away his knife, leaped down the stairs.
left the house bareheaded, mounted and
rode off, turning into Vermont avenue.
cor the five wounded men PAYNE left
behind him. Frederick Seward was the
most seriously hurt. His skull was
broken and for several days he lay I'M
conscious. His life was despaired Of but
he recovered. Secretary Stewards
wounds were a cash in the right cheek
and two in the neck. His recovery was
rapidly
In the Governments Net.
Three hours after the bloody scene
at the Seward house. Payne's horse
was found. in a weller of sweat. a
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. 1t
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 asso-
ciates in the kidnapping plot. They were
Samuel Arnold. who had parted from
Booth on April l, and had gone to
work in a suffers store at Fort Nom
roe. and Michael OLaughlin Of Balti-
more. Arnold was not in Washington
on April IA. OLaughlin was there to
witness the illumination in celebration
OF peace. but apparently did not see
Booth.
A third arrest this day was that of
Edward Spangler, a scene shifter at
Fords Theater. Booth had asked
Spangler to hold his horse for him
when he entered the theater to COM
NIT his crime, and Spangler, who was
busy. had turned the horse over to a
negro lad. 1t was charged that Spang-
Ter cleared the stage and kept the back
door of the theater open to aid Booth in
his escape. and that he fitted the bar be-
hind the corridor door by which the door
was secured by Booth before he fired.
CNone of 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 to kill Vice President
johnson. He had taken a room at Mr..
Johnson's hotel. but had lacked purpose
to strike. and had spent the evening in
riding about the city and visiting sa-
looms.
Next day he wandered out of WASH
ington. making his way to GAINESVILLE,
Montgomery County. Nd. where on April
- he was arrested at the house of a
relative.
Tonorrow-Booth 1t the home Of
Dr. MuAd.