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J. D. MURRAY,
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MMC EW BUGGIES,
With and without top, and which will he
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RRR are Wagouis, Spring Wagons &e.,
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Ta hads SE repairing done in short no-
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Satence on the Adeance,
O HIGUTELIUS,
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Surgeon & Mechanical Dentist,
ho is permanently located in Aarons- |
arg. in the offiee formerly occupied by
f. Neff, and who has been practicing with
Raving the experience of &
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entire swecess—
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Extracted without pain. RHE
may 2268, 1y
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CexTRE Harr Pa., May,
DR. MUDD.
His Return Home—A Drive to His
Residence—~ketches on the Way— |
Booth’s Ride— How the Doctor Looks |
and What He Says—His Account |
of Booths and Harold's Visit after |
the Assassination— What he thinks of |
His Own Trial and Condemnation— |
His Reported Confession to Captain
Dutton a Sham, which he says was
Coneocted by Secretary Stantos.
Washington, March 25th, 1869.
It will be many, many years ere the
tragic story of President Lincoln’s as-
sassination ceases to exercise its fear-
ful fascination over men’s minds. The
thrilling horrors of the deed assumed
by circumstances a character that made
it the most surpassing tragedy in the
history of the world. The head of the
14th 18609,
TRrecemrtiaveesm mn i
Bellefonte, Aug, 28.68.41
WM. H. BLAIR. ; H. Y. STITZER
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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Office 3a tho 1 amvond, pext docs to Gar-
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Kaglish. feh19.'69,tf
CALES, af wholesale and retail, cheap,
YY by © IRWIN & WILSON
01dv’68.
BOOTS, by the thousand, all styles si-
wes and prices, for men and boys, just ar-
sived at Wolf's well known Old Stand.
nation shot dead id a public playhouse,
in the center of the capital, on Good
Friday evening, and the assassin boldly
escaping from the scene of his awful
crime, make a subject of more terrible
interest and weird influence thar any
tae fiction has ever furnished. The
profound thrill of surprise, grief and
indignation that shot through the
hearts of thirty millions of people and
went circling round the earth wherever
ted the magnitude of the offence and
the desperate purpose of the assassin,
It was no wotider, jn the angry time
that followed, with the nation's pulse
at fever heat and the cry of vengeance
ringing through the land, that all who
be rashly judged and summarily dealt
with, In that period of lightning pas-
| sion, when a storm cloud of wrath hung
| above the country like a pall, one was
| hurried to her account for whom ne
| human restitution can ever be made:
| and vet, perhaps, it is a marvel that no
| other victims were immolated to the
| blind and reckless vengeance of the
hour.
| prevailing maclstrom of suspicion
| the time was Dr. Samuel Mudd,
"whom the public have very tally heard
| removes us to a calm, unprejudiced
standpoint from the exciting events
| his freedom from a living tomb, and
| has given him the fortune to outlive the
"clamor of false accusation, and to rise
| above the ponderous weight of odium
Men did not
| stop to inquire, to ponder, to investi
heaped upon his name.
| gate the possibility of perjury on one
| side or innocence on the other when
| Judgment was silenced by the fierce de-
| mand for speedy retribution. To grat-
| ify this, Mrs. Surratt was sacrificed and
| Dr. Mudd was consigned to an outeast
In other and calmer
| felon's doom.
sult would have occurred; the one
' would not have passed into history the
reproach of a great nation as being the
and
victim of judicial murder,
other would have escaped the torture
{ hopes forever ruined. Your corres.
[ ground that witnessed the mad and
| air of yesterday morning. East of the
the Capitol half a mile is a bridge that
a.together rudely constructed.
nels stood at either end of this cause:
way and saw Booth flash past them,
Tho conspira.-
of walking their horsesaeross the bridge
They flew with the wind, wheeled to
va bead
to M wyvlan |
hy
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fall yy
hill for several miles until we reached
a point on tha road called Good Hope.
glimpse at Washington, ths silvery
most heaven forsaken
where the very
triotic enthusinsm and every rood of
soil supports a freeman hold and brave,
of rotten boards awl mount a steep as-
cent of furrowed mud at the other side.
No fences anywhere, no green thing in
sight, no trim farm houses, no people
with white faces, save ever and anon a
bankrupt and hopeless looking farmer
stretched on a load of manure
cornstalks and gazing dejectedly at a
team of palsicd ponies. By the way-
side every few miles a blacksmith
and
delight of a few forlorn loafers, who
seem to sustain themselves hotween
watehing the sickly blaze of the fur-
nace aud poking fun at the impecuni-
ous son of Vulcan.
terra incognita so near Washin gton and
civilization could hardly be dreamed
of ; and now we begin to understand
why Booth selected it for his line of
flight. But Booth, be it known, had
long previous to the night of the assas-
sination mapped out this part of Ma-
ryland as the course by which he in-
tended to abduct President Lincoln
into the eonfederacy. After a thirty
humanity and civilization dwelt attos-
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he intetided to strike
| the Potomac, and crossing éver, hold
on his journey through the least kn
Land wildest portion of Virginia. Giy-
| ing up his abduction scheme and re
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| five miles journey
means of
No better could be
selected, for no man unacquainted with
the country could follow a fugitive
through it without being lost, and yet
there aro no dense forests or impasable
the route serviceable as a
escaping capture.
streams in the way, but there is a con-
stant dipping of the soil
low broken ridges of hills, overspread
by a Sahara-like loneliness and an ut-
ter absence of wayfarers on the high-
way, that makes it admirably adapted
for the purposes of a floeing criminal,
Eight or ten miles from Washington
| we passed Surrattsville once the happy
united with
country residence of the unfortunate
family of Burratt.
resort of Booth.
tomed to say he was aflianced, and
| whenever the business of the conspira-
| ey took him from Washington he gen:
erally accounted for his absence by
saying that his marringe was near at
hand, and he had heen making prepa-
| Surratt's
| house, painted white and standing by
rations for its consumation.
| ters and wide shady verandas, looked
| i Vm -
| the only redeeming feature of the road.
old
| times before the war, when the chival.
in the good
| It was once a tavern,
| ry of Maryland lived in clover and
| niggers abounded on every tobacco
plantation in the State. But there it
| stands, untenanted, snd all its former
| inmates have left its neighborhooc for-
ever
the road at an old fashioned grocery, a
mile or so beyond Surrattsville, and a
| whole party who have been engaged
playing cards and drinking whiskey
com : forth to give the desired infor-
mation. Such a team as ours is seldom
| seen in that vicinity, so we immediate.
ly became the centre of much cnrious
observation. Where we are going isa
theme of varied speculation and there
are many meditative mouths woudering
Lif our visit means a treat for all hands
rounil, Here we learned that Booth
stopped to replenish his brandy flask,
riding up to the door on his horse and
waking up the inmates by a loud
knocking with the handle of his whip
| or the stock of hig revolver, can't say
which. We leave The
roads are in a terrible condition, mud
very soo,
| point is still afar off. Now we pass a
‘schoolhouse sixteen feet long by twelve.
Six of the scholars are out at” play,
pupils are engaged in milking cows for
to
en
pastime, no doubt. Now we come
a swollen stream with a very unev
bed ; the wagon keels partly over, and
the horses struggle fearfully to extri-
cate it. All right again; but Booth
| must have had a rough experience
hereabounts. A few miles further and
| reach the village of T. B. —a curious
name, truly, which is explained by the
| oldest inhabitant as being the initials
the letters on a huge beech tree and
then laid himself down to die. The
village so called sprung from
ashes,
Still on the trail of the assassins we
find Booth made another halt here and
| sent Harold to Johnson's tavern to
procure a strap of leather to fasten the
broken buckle on the girth of his sad-
dle. The country is very desolate at
this point ; stumps of trees, hideous as
| midnight ghouls, dot the fields all over.
| To the right is the road to Beantown
‘and to Dr. Mudd’s, It is the roughest
| highway outside of the corduroy
| sink to the hubs in mucilaginous mud
| and the road runs through forest, field
| and swamp without any attempt at
regularity. Five miles from T. B. the
route to Dr. Mudd’s strikes off from
the main road. It is extremely narrow,
| barely wide enough for two horsemen
‘abreast. Once out of the woods
through which it leads, it assumes wi-
der proportions and slopes obliquely
across the shoulder of a hill and pasta
Catholic church. We drive over to
the church to call on Father Lenaghan,
who has a word of anecdote about
everything, including the chase after
the assassins. “Fwo officers called
here in search of Harold,” says the
priest, “and asked me if I did not know
| and if I had not frequently met him. I
May 14th, 1869.
told them ¥ never heard of him and
never met tior knew Harold. The only
| Childe Harold, whereat the officers
| lnughed, and said they were simply
‘no one of the class they were looking
for was harbored in the house.” We
| drive back again, rattle across half a
| dozen fields, through which the track
of the road lies, and finally cama out
| at the base of an elevated plateau, on
top ot which, in the centre, stands the
residence of Dr. Mudd. After strug-
| gling upto the asent we come in a few
‘minutes in view of a white painted,
high frame building surrounded by
pine trees and ceders and standing
about 400 yards from the road. The
face of the country has undergone a
i
(vast change. Cultivated fields be all
| around, while ferices are the rule and
not the exception. It was four o'clock
on an April morning, in the year 1865,
when Booth and Harold, with their
guilty souls steeped in the blackest in-
| famy and eternal despair staring them
lin the face, rode their horses up here
| and bent their fatal steds to the doomed
| domicile of Mudd. In the meantime
i we can tell our own story. Guessing
| in the absence of reliable information,
| that the white frame house standing
over in the fields was the one we were
in quest of, we drove across, and hay-
ing hitched the horses to a fence took a
leisurely survey of the ground, noting
especially tne bewuty and seclusion of
There were several out-
houses, one a barn, the sther a stable,
standing at a distance of a few hun-
dred feet from the dwelling. A garden
in which nothing appeared to ba grow-
ing, a cemi-circular area in front of the
house planted in low wide spreading
the situation.
cedars, au extensive strip on one side
of the rolling meadow land, and on the
other a long, irregualr line of pine
trees constituted the chief features of
| the scene.
We knocked for admission at the
same door that Booth did after his six
hours’ ride—it took u« right—and w re
promptly answered by a pale and seri-
ous looking gentleman, who, in answer
to our inquiry if he were Dr. Mudd,
replied.” “That's my name.” It wa-
gartifying after so long a journey to
| find the man you sought directly on
| hand and apparently prepared to
| furnish you with the amplest stores of
information regarding his connection
with Booth, &ec. Having stated the
object of our visit—that the Hearld
| felt an interest in learning some partie-
ulars of his experience in the Dry Tor-
tugas and his recollections of the assas-
"sination conspirators—his face grew ex-
| tremely serisus and he answered that
of all thing she wishad to avoid it was
| newspaper publicity, simply because
| represent him,
LA burned child dreads the fire,”
| he exclaimed, “and I have reason to he
| suspicious of every one. It was in
| this way Booth came to my hous», rep-
resenting himself as being on a journey
from Richmond to Washington, and
| that his horse fell on him, fracturing
his leg and otherwise injuring him.
Six months or zo from now, when my
| mind is more settled and when I un-
d>rstand what changes have taken
place in public opinion regarding me,
[ shall be prepared to speak freely and
fully on these matters you are anxious
to know about. At present, for the
reason stated, I would rather not say
!
anything.’
Having, however,
Doctor that it was with no motive to
convinced the
paid him this visit and that between
Booths case and ours there was no
analogy, he invited us to pass the
evening at his house and postpone our
| return to Washington till the morning.
Left alone for a while in the parlor,
an ample, square apartment, with fol-
ding doors seperating it from the din.
ing room, we began to feel irresistible
inclination to imagine two strangers
on horseback riding up to the door in
from his saddle and both like evil stars
crossing the threshold of an innocent
and a happy household to blast its
peace forever. Dr. Mudd’s return dis-
turbed our reveries.
The Doctor says he is thirty-five
years of age, married in 1860, built the
house in which he now lives after his
marriaige, owned a well stocked frrm
of about thirty acres, and was in the
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employment of a pretty extensive prac- ‘8 few words to him and never saw
tice up to the time of hig strresti n 1865. | him afterwards until « little while be
fore Christmas, when T happened to be
in Washongton making a few purcha-
seg sind waiting for some friends from
Baltimore who promised tu meet me at
the Pennsylvania House and cofite ots
here to spend the holidays. I was
walking past the National Hotel at
the time, a person tapped mé on the
shoulder and, on tnrning round, I dis-
coveted it was the gentleman I was in-
troduced to Booth in November, 1864,
at the church #bout six weeks
previously He asked ‘me aside
for a moment and said he desired an
introdnetion to JohnH. Strrats, with
whont he persumed I was acquainted,
I said that 1 was. Surratt and I be-
came almost necessary acquainted from
the fact of lisliving on the road 1 trav.
élled so often on my way to Washing-
ton, and having the only tavera on the
war that I eared to vicit. Booth and I
a J S——
with him previous to that unhappy
‘event. His house was furnished with
mau's residence. He had his horses
and hounds, and in the sporting
| season was formost at every fox hunt |
| and at every many outdoor sport He
‘had robust health and a vigorous,
athletic frame in those days, but it i:
very different with him now. Above:
the middle height, wlth a reddish
| mustache and chin whisker, a high
forehead and attenuated nose, his ap-
| pearance indicates a man of calm and
and slow reflection, gentle in manner,
‘and ofa very domestic turn. He says
‘he was born within a few miles of this
house, and has lived all his lifein the
| country. His whole desire now is to
' be allosed to spent the balance of his
| days quietly in the bosom of his fini |
ly. In his sunken, lustreless eve, Walked slong the'ay Sires or four
| pallid lips and cold, shsy complexion | locks, when" we suddenly came scross
one can read the words “Dry Torty- Surratt and Watchman, and all four
| gas" witha terrible significance. In having become ncquitinted we ad
the prime of his years, looking prema. | Joutned to the Nation] Hotel and had
turely old and careworn, there are few | 8 routtd of drinks. The witnesses in
‘indeed who could gaze om the wreck | MY case swore that Booth and I moved
and 1avage in the fuce of this man be. | 10 8 corner of the room and were en-
fore them without feeling a sentiment gaged fof as hout of so in secret con.
of sympathy and commiseration. +f | sultation. That wes # barefaced lie.
have come home,” said the Doctor, The whole four of us were inloud and
sorrowfully, “to find nothing left me | Opel conversation all the tine we wers
but my house and family. No money, | $ozether, and ‘when we scperated we
no provisions, no crops in the ground | four never met again.”
“You told the soldiers, Dactor, the
and no clear way before me where to
derive the means of support in my | course the fugitives pursued after leav-
ine vour house?’
present enfeebled condition.” There :
was no deception here. In the scanty Yad: 1 old) Sioit the'sout that
furniture of the house and in the pale, B wth ld me'he Shi 9 lake; kt
sad countemance of the speaker there Booth, x Sa, Chafiged Is 'niind ‘af
was evidence enough of poor and al- il yuuting Word dnd: weit audthey
tered fortune. It was now evening and way, his wae watutal eaough ye:
growing rapidly dark. A big fire Pwas steal shtway sesgsel be: Seking
blazed on the ample heart, and Mrs. So set the spldiery u3.1aYs i ya
Mudd, an intelligent and handsome la- urged agyist ie as proof positive of
dy, with one of her children, joined the Yip lioution in the SUmApIACY : :
Doctor and ourselves in the conversa- Yd ig st have felt Nerioaly ngitae
tion over the events of that memora- te on eins ders] yy
ble April morning after the ssssissina- with Hid Mites! :
Hn y 9, Bir. a a a is pentind
“Did yousee Booth, Mrs. Mudd” 28, 81 HOW. The§ Might Wave han-
we inquired, with a feeling of intense So 3 ah Se vise id ! shaky ny
interest to hvae her reply. ay Pe
“Yes,” she replied; “I saw himself Supe thie pe think of t! ilita
and Harold after they entered this par: at re Ak of fe miliary
Commission
lor. Booth stretched himself out on “Well it would take me 100. lonz to
that sofa there and Harold stooped sell vou. .. Suffice it. $6 say that Are
down to whisper somethitig to him.” y rd : A : trial with
“How did Booth look *” mis 2 Whe Ja ood wi i o>
“Very bad. He seemed as though a PT To or
he had been drinking very hard; his i cul ol dad I wih mY
eyes were red and swollen and his hair EB strength of wild
n Jusler. » rumor and wisreprescntation. The
id he appear to suffer much ¥ witnesses petjured themselves. and
“Not after he laid down on the sof. while I Was i there i1 that dock,
In fact, it scemel as if hardly anything lHstenta 5 their a : rita fuleshods,
was wrong with him then.” I felt a of Ls tos’ and Toit
“What kind of a fracttire did Booth fuith forever in - aren That
sustain ¥"' we inquired, addressing the _ we St up in that court and
Doetor, wy : ., | take an oath before Heaven to tell the
“Well,” said he, “after he was laid truth and the next moment set theta
down on that sofa and having told me sdviais rork to +n? away by dowa-
his leg was fractured by his horse fal- Fuel} priary the life of a fellow” man
ling on him during his journey up a that 1 in mv innocence of
from Richmond, [I took a knife and ths word ot er thought possible. Af:
split the leg of the boot down to the sord vias dinioted and thent away to
instep, slipped it off and the sock with the Diy Tortugas aco feaEion was got
it; I then feht carefully with booth dp by Searetary Stanton, purporting to
hands down along his leg, but at firsi at mide by mie to Captain Dut-
could discover nothing like crepitation orion Sound the sf -amer, and was af
till, after a second investigation, I forwards appe:idad to the official re-
found on the outside, near the ankle port of my trial. This was one of the
something that felt like indurated flesh most inmutis dudes practiced against
and then for the first time I concluded ae and was evidently intended as 3
it was a directand cle fracture of |. .. ... « : oh
the bone. I then improvised out of Justification tor the illegality of my
conviction. I never made such a con-
pasteboard a sort of boot that adhered fossbon and sever could hive made it,
close enough to the leg to keep it rig- even if hited”
idly straight below the knee, without “How. did'they trent yon down there
at all interfering with the flexure of to the Dry TT ite bo gh
the leg. A low cut shoe was substitu- “Well. I feel wel od tr a much
ted for the leather boot, and between ort. that bead: If I ki Finda
five and six o'clock in the morning! Lo ‘g Fes
Booth and his companions started off vee with ich | at Ko wight
for a point on the river below.” : #0
riously co
“How did Booth's horse Jook after || (hemselves. curiously... compre-
his long ride ¥” we inquired. No oY Lt oy
“ good service du
“The boy, after putting him up in oy od Doctor” fing the
the stable,” the Doctor replied, *re- 0g ue say this, as long as I
ported that hie back tmderneath the adted 3s post physician nota single life
forward part of the saddle was raw was lost. My whole time was devoted
and bloody. This cireuutstance tallied to fighting the spread of the disesse and
with Booth’s sccomnt that he had been investigating its specific nature. I
riding all day previous from Rieh- | found that the dise se does not generate
mond, and no suspicion arose in my the poison which gives rise to the
ind he oe Aveta that the vias plague. The difference between con-
whose leg I was attending to was any tagion and infectien which I have dis-
thing more thar le represented him | oo 2o0 0 ome generates the poi-
self.” hi
. son fro: which the fever ngs sad
“You knew Booih hefote, Doctor ™ the other does not. Oe i hagy ad
“Yes,” replied the Doctor. “I was as smallpox measles, &e., gevierates the
| first introduced to Booth iti Novem poison which spreads the complaint of
. ber, 1864, at the chitch yonder, spoke ; Era a