. Gazetteer of the District of Columbia for 1871-2. ---sni ivEsf Eas<l i /)L ^^?fyiliM^PiS^J 76 leaped down u])on the stage, fell, and fractured his leg, but was up inan instant, and, brandishing a dagger, shouted the motto of Virgin a,? Sic semper tt/rannis. He made his escape to the rear, and van-ished. About the same hour, Secretary Seward, who was laying in bed froma broken arm, was attacked by an assassin, who inflicted several stabsupon him, which have not proved fatal, and nearly killed his son Fred-erick and attendants, who tried to defend him ; he also made hisescape. It now seems
. Gazetteer of the District of Columbia for 1871-2. ---sni ivEsf Eas<l i /)L ^^?fyiliM^PiS^J 76 leaped down u])on the stage, fell, and fractured his leg, but was up inan instant, and, brandishing a dagger, shouted the motto of Virgin a,? Sic semper tt/rannis. He made his escape to the rear, and van-ished. About the same hour, Secretary Seward, who was laying in bed froma broken arm, was attacked by an assassin, who inflicted several stabsupon him, which have not proved fatal, and nearly killed his son Fred-erick and attendants, who tried to defend him ; he also made hisescape. It now seems theie was a plot to assassinate the wliole Cabinet andLieutenant General U. S. Grant. On Wednesday morning, April 26,Booth, with an accomplice, named Harold, was discovered in a barnnear Port Koyal, on the Rappahannock, and refusing to surrender, thebarn was fired ; his companion then gave himself up, and Booth wasshot in the head. He lingered in such great agony as to beg his cap-tors to kill him. He died in three or four hours afterward. Pre
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