The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . tsville, John Surratt and Mrs. Slatercrossed, and Banon and Mrs. Surratt came back. Banonwas in the Rebel army. Harborn was into it first; hecame to Port Tobacco for me with John Surratt duringthe winter. The boat was at the head of Goose Creekand moved to Xanjemoy Creek. It was a lead-colored,flat-bottom boat, and would carry fifteen men. This boatwas bought of James Brawner—the old man. Mrs. Slaterwent with Booth a great deal. She stopped at the Na-tional Hotel. This statement is very much d
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . tsville, John Surratt and Mrs. Slatercrossed, and Banon and Mrs. Surratt came back. Banonwas in the Rebel army. Harborn was into it first; hecame to Port Tobacco for me with John Surratt duringthe winter. The boat was at the head of Goose Creekand moved to Xanjemoy Creek. It was a lead-colored,flat-bottom boat, and would carry fifteen men. This boatwas bought of James Brawner—the old man. Mrs. Slaterwent with Booth a great deal. She stopped at the Na-tional Hotel. This statement is very much disconnected, but repre-sents events that took place at various p-^riods of the was written under trying circumstances, and we can-not wonder at the bungling manner in which it waswritten. David E. Herold was born in Maryland, receiving hiseducation at Charlotte Hall, in St. Marvs Countv. His 136 ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. father resided in Washington, on Eighth Street S. E.,near the Navy Yard, and was employed for twenty yearsas principal clerk of the Navy Yard store, at the Navy. DAVID E. HEROLD. Joined Booth in his flight from Washington, and surrendered in Garrettsbarn a few minutes before Booth was shot. Executed July 7, 1865 Yard. He died in 1864, leaving a wife, seven daughters,and one son. The family, with the exception of David,who seldom attended, were members of Christ Church(Episcopal) at the Navy Yard, and were highly esteemedby those who knew them. David was a stupid, insignifi-cant-looking young man, with slender frame, and irreso- SKETCHES OF THE CONSPIRATORS. 137 lute, cowardly appearance. He had a narrow forehead,small, dark hazel eyes, thick black hair, and an incipientmustache. At one time he took up pharmacy for a liveli-hood, and clerked at three different drug stores, the lastone for W. S. Thompson, who kept on the southwestcorner of Fifteenth Street and Pennsylvania eleven months he was employed in the drug storeof Francis S. W
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