The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . hand,saying that he had some medicine for Secretary Seward,sent by Dr. Verdi, which he was directed to deliver inperson and give instructions how it was to be taken. Thedoorkeeper informed him that he could not see , but he repeated the words, saying he must seehim. He talked very roughly for several minutes againstthe protest of the doorkeeper, who said he had positiveorders to admit no one to the sick-chamber. The door-keeper finally weakened, thinking perhaps he was sent byDr. Verd
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . hand,saying that he had some medicine for Secretary Seward,sent by Dr. Verdi, which he was directed to deliver inperson and give instructions how it was to be taken. Thedoorkeeper informed him that he could not see , but he repeated the words, saying he must seehim. He talked very roughly for several minutes againstthe protest of the doorkeeper, who said he had positiveorders to admit no one to the sick-chamber. The door-keeper finally weakened, thinking perhaps he was sent byDr. Verdi, and let him ascend the stairs. When at thetop, he met Mr. Frederick Seward, a son of the Secre-tarys, to whom he told the object of his visit, but Mr. OTHER ATTEMPTS AT ASSASSINATION. 43 vSeward told him that he could not see his father; thathe was asleep, but to give him the medicine and hewould take it to him. That would not do; he must seeMr. Seward; and then Mr. Frederick Seward said: Iam the proprietor here, and his son; if you cannot leaveyour message with me, you cannot leave it at THE BLAINE HOUSE. The house in which Secretary William H. Seward was living whenPayne made the attempt to assassinate him. The Hon. James G. Blainedied in this house. It was a club-house at the time of the Sickles-Keydifficulty, and near here Key was killed. Payne started downstairs, and, after taking a few steps,suddenly turned around and struck Mr. Frederick Sew-ard, felling him to the floor. Sergeant George F. Robin- 44 ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. son, acting as attendant nurse to Mr. Seward, was in anadjoining room, and on hearing the noise in the hallopened the door, where he found Payne close up to soon as the door was opened, he struck Robinsonin the forehead with a knife, knocking him partiahydown, and pressed past him to the bed of Mr. Seward,where he leaned over it and struck him three times inthe neck with his dagger. Mr. Seward had been out riding shortly befor
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