Show BOOTHS FLIGHT j the following interesting particulars concerning the movements of the assassin after he had murdered president LINCOLN are taken from a late copy of the washington start star there no longer remains any doubt that booth fractured his le leg when he sprang from the presidents box upon the stage it being one of the small bones it is not probable that he dincov ered ae the extent of the injury until the next day on the night of the assassination the confederates of booth were actively engaged in measures to divert pursuit from the right direction and a number of horses were turna turned loose with no other object than to convey the idea that the assassins were still in the city the report of booths being seen in pennsylvania was also started by his friend friends 5 it is believed but all such can ards were neglecter neglected eA the ther detectives steadily and surely tracing the murderer in all his wanderings through maryland early on saturday morning the detectives and military were sent across the eastern branch others quick ilic tiie k succession until prince Geor georges gels charles charies charles and st marys counties were fully enveloped col ludington chief quartermaster of this department was waa called called on to furnish horses and at at one time there was not left lefft at headquarters a single wagon or available horse the first reliable information concerning booth was obtained on saturday morning at Su tavern about ten miles from the city on the road ta bryan town the military called at this place but failed to get any definite state statement menti i until the detectives came up the tavern is owned by mrs 2 and leased to tp the old man who keeps it upon a closer examination he stated that mrs had been there on friday afternoon and left word men would arrive during the night who were cereto to ba b e generously provided for fon she also di dl i erected that thab two carbines suspended by a string between the plastering ering of a partition should be given them booth ayd and harold haroid arrived as exi expected acted j and remain ed until some time saturday forenoon buton huton buk but on leaving booth declined to take a carbine stating that he was too lame to carry it harold however took one and the two set et out for the lower lower counties upon reaching the neighborhood of bryantown dryan Bryan town near port tobacco booths leg became too painful torro to proceed propped further and the services of dr mudd of that vicinity were called into requisition after tle tae the fracture had llad been dressed and booth had left bern the detectives tec tives arrested mudd ludd who denied all know knowledge Tedge of the character of his patient the boot however which had been cut off from booths foot the inflammation flam mation matlon rendering it impossible to draw it off was found and it was written with ink J wilkes 77 the word I 1 booth I 1 evidently having been scratched out with a knife why any portion of the name was left is a mystery unless a sudden alarm hurried ont oft the party before the completion of the erasure the next place booth and harold were i concluded on page T continued from page 2001 heard from was at the house of a dr coxe the latter upon being questioned denied having seen any such parties I 1 but said that three paroled rebel soldiers had applied there for mccomm accommodations oda and had been sent away co coxes x e Is servants however all asserted that the two men had staid there over overnight night that their master had entertained them t nent hent in ili the most hospitable manner and andi upon their departure next morning bave gave each a quantity of whiskey the detectives next came upon the fuggiti fugitives ves near the isachiar swamp in charles county there they found a dilapidated shanty occupied by all an old colored woman who stated that on that morning I 1 two men one of them the with a crutch ha had come out of the woods and asked askea for something to eat offering to pay py any sum for it she being afraid of tie tle them M told them she had nothing that there thore no white whito people around there and that they could get nothing to eat cat in that vicinity the lame iame man then inquired the direction to the great swamp swampy which she gave and the two went oie ole on the shanty stands in a a small cleal clearing ing surrounded on all sides by dense pine wot wol woods ds with ta the ie exception of one side bounded by the swamp the eighth illinois cavalry and arld a regiment of colored troops were immediately sent through the swamp in every direction gare iare searching hing every ewery thicket but aitho without ua finding any trace of the assassins the latter iatter evidently having secreted them selves sei sel in the pine pino woods and made their escape while the swamp was ads being scoured on sunday afternoon booth and harold crossed the potomac at swam swan paint a short distance below mathias mathil as point and passing port royal en on route to lodisa louisa court house were captured as previously described at garretts garr etts place facts have come to light which I 1 show conclusively that booth and his accomplices had before carrying their plans into execution decided upon the routes to be taken in making their thein escape maps understood to be in n the possession posse assion of the government and which are known to have belonged to these tuse parties bear distinct marks of the routes laid out by them booth and ih harold haroid were to escape to ze beldom and bee see k jemmi jeffi davis protection who was finally to assist them thom in leaving the tho h c 1 country harold in a conversation with an acquaintance who resides in dil maryland some time previous ous to the burder murder of president lincoln ni made 44 a remark to the effect emmett I 1 that there was no extradition treaty between the united states and spain a remark thad that excited no special attention at the time hut but in th the light elight of subsequent events it would appear that booth and himself bontem plated shelter somewhere inthe in the span ish dominions surprise has been bea ex pressed that booth selected such a shai clial 1 low blab as harold as his nearest accomplice in so terrible a plou plot this thia mystery we think ilnay ilhan may be explained pia pla ined in this way harold a young ayoung mah man man of idle idie vagabond habits was M a algood shot an and a capital boatman spend 1 ing much of his time fluie in gunning a and d disi digi fishing excursions ions iona in the tho lower ower I 1 counties ot maryland acquiring in this way a thorough knowledge of the country ak especially specially ally aily its by paths forests s swamps stamps 1 and creeks creeke sought only by the hunter and und nisher fisher on the outbreak of the rei bellion his h knowledge made aisse es esk valuable in the capacity tot oot a gulde guide for blockade runners und and there s no doubt that lie he has liag been beehn actively hoti beti Q ay engaged iii in that business throughout the war doubtless he was waa recommended to tbt 4 boo booth as hs 41 a suitable guidi guide in his flight and I 1 that th atthe the acquaintance between i them stormed Was wa Formed in hi th atway hut but for the injury received by booth abboth in jump ing ilig to th the stage b by which ellae he was crippled it is possible that the well AMI arrano arjang eplan of escape might inight have succeeded d but the tiie outraged fla fia flag of our country trampled train pled pied upon by booth root h ili in ili hi exit from the box would seem aseem to have been endowed with powers of volition seiz selz ing him by the spur and causing hin him to fall crippled on the stage whereby los lys flight was intercepted and his bis few days i of cain like existence made days of I 1 agony intense tt it is believed that had ahe v he hot been immediately immediate ly captured death would have ensued from fr mortin idin 11 cadon of his broken brokon leg unbaked for as it necessarily was and in constant coh stant use ue traces at points of his route indicate that he attempted to obliterate the telltale marks of his hig crutch in the earth whereby his hia route might be retraced et traced raCed and ana that lie he hopped hil hii ed on oneley leg I 1 at other otlie points notus not using ng the crutch to the same end 1 ft 1 r h f the tile massachusetts ett RE fisheries have proved unusually productive this tilis year the gloucester fishermen are replacing their old vessels with llew liew and elega ciega elegant t schooners ners which average 2000 a trip |