Year: 1869

inquired, with feeling OF intense interest
to hear her reply.


eyes," she replied. Il saw himself and
Harold after they entered this parlor.-
Booth stretched himself out on that sofa
there and Harold stopped down to whis-
per something to him."


.How did Booth look 7"


"Very bad. He seemed as though he
had been drinking very hard; his eyes
were red and swollen, and his hair in dis
order"


did he appear to suffer much p


mot after he laid down on the sofa
In fact, it seemed as ii hardly anything
was wrong with him then"


What kind of fracture did Booth
sustain ?" we inquired, addressing the
Doctor.


"Well." said he. "after he was laid
down on the sofa and having told me bis
leg was fractured by his horse falling on
him during the journey up from Rich
moud. I took knife and split the leg of
bis boot down to the iustep, slipped It off
and the sock with it; then felt carefully
with both hands down along his leg, but
at first could discover nothing like crepi-
tation till. after second investigation. I
found on the outside, near the ankle,
something that felt like indurated flesh.
and then for the first time I concluded
that it was direct and clean fracture of
the bone. I then improvised out Of paste
board sort of box that adhered close e.
nough to the leg to keep itrigidly straight
below the knee. without ct all interfering
with the Texture Of the leg, A low cut
shoe was substituted for the leather boot,
and between FIVE and six o'clock in the
morning Booth and his companion start
ed of for point on the river below"


''How did Booths horse look after his
long ride 7" We inquired.


''The boy. after putting him up in the
stable. u the Doctor replied, t.reported that
his back underneath the forward part of
the saddle was raw and bloody. This cir
cumstance tailed with Booths account
that he had been riding all day previous
from Richmond, and no suspicion arose
in my mind for one instant that the man
whose leg was attending to was any
thing more than what be represented him
self"


"You knew Booth before, Doctor 2"
EYES," replied the A,ctor. as'I was
fsss Asrus2ussd atss Bod =. - ai-:ovsz1bss,
1864, at the church yonder spoke few
words to him and never saw him after
wards until little while before Christ
mas. when happened to be in Washing
ton making few purchases, and waiting
for some friends from Baltimore who pro-
missed to meet me at the Pennsylvania
House and come out here to spend the
holidays. I was walking past the Ma
tional Hotel at the time, when a person
tapped me on the shoulder, and. on turn
ing round. discovered it was the gentle
man I was introduced to at the church a.
bout six weeks previously. He asked me
aside for a moment and said he desired an
introduction to John Fl. Surratt, with
whom he presumed was acquainted. l
said that was


'Surratt and l became almost necessa-
rily acquainted from the fact Of his living
on the road I travelled so often on my way
to Washington. and having the only tav-
ern on the way that I cared to visit
Booth and | walked along the avenue
three or four blocks. when we suddenly
came across Surratt and Wcichman, and
all four having become acquainted. we ad-
journed to the National Hotel and had a
round of drinks. The witnesses 10 my
case swore that Booth and I moved to q
corner Of the room and were engaged fol
an hour or so h secret consultation. -
That was a barefaced lie. The whole
four of US were in loud and open CONVEX
sation all the time we were together and
when we separated we four never met a.
gain"


"You told the soldiers, Doctor, the
course the fugitives pursued after leaving
your house Z"


Il did. I told them the route thai
Booth told me he intended to take but
Booth, it seems, changed his mind after
quitting here and went another way
This was natural enough; yet / was
straightway accused of seeking to set the
soldiers astray; and it was urged against
me as proof positive Of implication in the
conspiracy"


''You must have felt seriously agitated
on being arrested in connection with thil
matter %


No, sir. was just as self-possessed
as am now. They might have hanged
me at the time and I should have faced
death just as composedly as smoke this
pipe"


"What did you think of the military
commission 2"


'Well, it would take me too long tt
tell you. Suffice it to say that not mar
of them sat on my trial with an unbiased
and uDprejudiced mind. Before a wore
of evidence was heard my case was pre-
Judged. aud I was already condemned OF
the strength of wild rumor and misrepre
bentation. The witnesses perjured them
selves and while l was sitting there il
that dock listening to their monstrous
falsehoods, I felt ashamed of my specie,
and lost faith forever in all mankind
That men could stand up in that court ane
take an oath before heaven to tell th,
truth and the next moment sat than saIve