. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . have ottereda reward of $2o, for the arrest and conviction of theseassassins, in addition to which I will i«y $io,t« C. Hakkr,Colonel, and .Agrnto/the War ,^ + This was the exact wording of the reward handbills is- a systematic search, and sued by secretary Stanton and circulated by Colonel Baker: whollv without a directing Wak DErvKTMKNT. W\smN.,TON, April 20,1865. $ \vuuu\ «iL w b reward The murderer of our late beloved President. Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. $»o reward will beColonel Bakers first ste
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . have ottereda reward of $2o, for the arrest and conviction of theseassassins, in addition to which I will i«y $io,t« C. Hakkr,Colonel, and .Agrnto/the War ,^ + This was the exact wording of the reward handbills is- a systematic search, and sued by secretary Stanton and circulated by Colonel Baker: whollv without a directing Wak DErvKTMKNT. W\smN.,TON, April 20,1865. $ \vuuu\ «iL w b reward The murderer of our late beloved President. Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. $»o reward will beColonel Bakers first step was the publi- paid by this department for his apprehension in addition to search for the murderers of the to this time the confusion had beenso great that few of the ordinary detectivemeasures for the apprehension of criminalshad been employed. No rewards had beenoffered, little orno attempt had been madeto collect and analvze the clues in thefurtherance ofthe pursuit wasleadership. 576 THE DIRECTIOX TAKEX BY BOOTH AND ington—into the field, and the wholeof southern Maryland and easternVirghiia was scoured and ransackeduntil it seemed as if a jack-rabbitcould not have escaped. And yet,at the end of ten days, the assassinswere still at large. Booth was accompanied in hisflight by acallow, stage-struck youthnamed David C. Herold, who wasbound to the older man by the tiesof a marvelous personal magnetismwhich the actor exercised as a partof his art. Two hours after theassassination the fugitives reachedMrs. Surratts tavern, where Heroldsecured a carbine, two flasks ofwhisky, and a field-glass. Theyimparted the information with someshow of pride that they had justkilled the President of the UnitedStates. By this time Booths brokenleg had begun to give him excruci-ating pain, and the two rode withoutdelay to the house of Dr. Mudd, aSouthern sympathizer of the mostpronounced type. Here the assas-sins leg was set and splinted, forlack of better material,
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