The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . ode through the village. Thomp-son was awake that night and heard the tramp ofhorses feet, but did not know at the time who rodeby. Mrs. Thompson said that John Surratt and Herold 248 ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. wanted to leave the guns at Mr. Thompsons house,but he would not allow it, as he was a Govern-ment mail-carrier at the time, and was afraid some-thing was wrong in the work they were engaged joined Surratt and Herold here, and the threereturned to Surrattsville and le
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . ode through the village. Thomp-son was awake that night and heard the tramp ofhorses feet, but did not know at the time who rodeby. Mrs. Thompson said that John Surratt and Herold 248 ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. wanted to leave the guns at Mr. Thompsons house,but he would not allow it, as he was a Govern-ment mail-carrier at the time, and was afraid some-thing was wrong in the work they were engaged joined Surratt and Herold here, and the threereturned to Surrattsville and left the guns with Three miles from T. B. I crossed the Balti-more & Potomac and Popes Creek Railroad, steppingfrom King Georges into Charles County, and crossednear this point a small creek bearing the name of Matta-woman, and the 3>Iattawoman swamps extended for somedistance along the road. Beantown was passed, and Icame to St. Peters Catholic Church, beautifully situatedto the left of the road. I drew my kodak on it, and nextreached the gravevard in the forks of the road, a mile. A small village five miles soutli of Surrattsville, through which Booth andHerold were heard riding very rapidly about i A. M., April 15. NARRATIVE OF A WALK. 249 distant from the church. The one to the right led toBryantown, but Booth kept on the straight one to In this graveyard Hes Edward Spangler, whoserved Dr. Mudd so faithfully in Dry Tortugas while thedoctor was down with yellow fever, that he sheltered andcared for him until he died, in 1881. Two miles fromthe graveyard a gate on the right of the road leads intoa field, on the opposite side of which was the home of The road continues past this gate, probably forhalf a mile, until it enters the road to Bryantown, sothat Dr. Aludds house is situated in the forks of thetwo roads, a quarter of a mile from each. It was oneoclock when I knocked at the door, hungry, but nottired, having walked only seventeen miles. It
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