After Booth and Herold left Dr. Mudd?s farm, the Government arrived there in search of them. They intensely questioned Mudd about any possible prior friendship with either Booth or Herold. Mudd replied that he had never heard of either of them and that when the two men arrived at his house he was just doing his job by fixing Booth?s broken leg. The Government left his house, but returned three days later with more questions. When they came back this second time, they brought new evidence to incriminate and arrest Dr. Mudd. Finally, Dr. Mudd admitted that he had met Booth a year back, in 1864, but did not mention any type of conspiracy. Mudd was arrested and taken back to Washington for further questioning. After Booth and Herold left Mudd?s farm on April 15th, the Government lost track of them for ten days. Nobody except members of the conspiracy knew what went on then until the Century explained it April 1884 in an article titled, ?How Wilkes Booth Crossed The Potomac.? While running away, Booth wrote a diary that made very clear the fact that Booth didn?t care at all that his fellow conspirators were arrested, and that he was very proud of what he had done to Abraham Lincoln. After a few days, Booth was found, and was being taken away by the Government without Herold who had already surrendered. All of the sudden, while he was walking, he was shot through the neck by Sergeant Boston Corbett. Booth remained conscious and said to the government officials to ?tell Mother I died for my country.? A few minutes after 7:00, Booth died.

There was a lot of testimony brought by the prosecution against the conspirators, and very little testimony on behalf of them. The Government kept all of their 180 witnesses locked up, making sure that nothing would happen to them before they got a chance to testify. The Prosecution?s case was strongest against Herold. The Government had a lot of evidence that he was guilty. However, Herold had one friend, Frederick Stone, who kept on fighting for his friend?s life. He made several good points that the government had to think about, but it was too little. On June 29 and 30, 1865, the Jury met to decide the verdict. Most of the conspirators, including Herold, were found guilty of most of the charges except planning the murders with Edward Spangler. As a result of not having associated with anybody, Spangler was the only person found not guilty. Soon afterward, Herold and three others were hanged in the Arsenal Grounds. Thirty minutes later, the bodies were taken down and buried. The four remaining conspirators, including Dr. Mudd, were sent off to prison for four years, before being pardoned by President Johnson.

was to be made at the Republican convention on June 16, 1858. After the convention, the decision was: ?Abraham Lincoln is the first and only choice of the Republicans of Illinois for the U.S. Senate as the successor of Stephen A Douglas.? He was in the race.

Soon after the murder the Government found out that Booth and his partner in crime, David Herold, had escaped into Lower Maryland. To get into Maryland, they had to cross the Navy Yard Bridge over Anacostia Creek. The problem was that there was a 9 PM closing of the bridge and a guard on duty. Booth and Herold responded that they did not know of this time limit, faked their names and hometowns, and were allowed to cross the bridge. While riding throughout the night with Herold, Booth?s broken leg was bothering him. The bone was tearing through all of the skin on his leg, leaving it a bloody, skinless area. Therefore they stopped at the farm of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd so he could tend to Booth?s leg. Dr. Mudd was secretly part of the conspiracy and was to be hanged later. Booth and Herold were planning to stop at Dr. Mudd?s farm even if Booth didn?t have a broken leg. Herold helped carry Booth upstairs and lay him down on a sofa. Dr. Mudd examine

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