Dr. Samuel A. MUDD; (1833-1933) Chapter 8.

Accused No. 4: 
A Country doctor, was accused of setting BOOTH's 
leg when the actor BOOTH showed up at 4:00 in the morning of 
Saturday, April 15, 1865, (5 1/2 hours after the assassination). 
Captured by the Government on Friday, April 21, 1865 at his home 
near Bryantown, Maryland. After questioning Dr. MUDD was allowed 
to stay on his farm over the weekend and on Monday, Apr. 24th 
four men took him by horse and buggy to Washington D.C. where, 
because he was a Doctor and a Gentleman, he was put in Carroll 
Prison instead of on the ironclad prison ships. He was clamped in 
regular handcuffs instead of wrist irons. [REF: #5  pg191 

Brought to Trial:
Dr. SAMUEL A. MUDD, was a thin man with a mild, timid look, "entirely 
devoid of any nobility of character."  Everyone felt he was guilty, 
since it was brought out at the trial that BOOTH had visited him in 
Maryland and he had met BOOTH in Washington D.C, notably the day before 
the second inauguration when the Kidnapping had been planned  for 
the following day on the East steps of the Capitol. It was beyond 
anyone's belief that Dr. MUDD could have set BOOTH's leg, having spend 
the hole  day in his house and not guessed this was BOOTH. Dr. MUDD 
literally convicted himself through evasiveness and a criminally faulty 
memory. [REF: #5  pg198

Trial Sentence:
Dr. SAMUEL A. MUDD, age 32 was sentenced to "Life in Prison" 
on 30 June 1865. When an epidemic of yellow fever caused the 
death of the prison doctor, of Dry Tortugas, Florida he 
volunteered to serve. President ANDREW JOHNSON pardoned him in 
Feb. of 1868 after serving 3 years. He died in 1933, age 100 years old.


End of Chapter 08.

The Conspirators Index
 

Chap.	F.Name	L.Name	b. d.	Subject
01.	Abraham	Lincoln	1809-1865	Profile
02.	John W.	Booth	1838-1865	Profile
03.	John W.	Booth	1838-1865	Pursuit, Death & Burial
04.	The	Conspirators		Trial of the Assassins
05.	Samuel B.	Arnold	1834-1906	Profile
06.	George T.	Atzerodt	1832-1865	Profile
07.	David	Herold	1844-1865	Profile
08.	Samuel A.	Mudd	1833-1933	Profile
09.	Michael	O'Laughlin	1840-1867	Profile
10.	Lewis T.	Powell	18??-1865	Profile
11.	Edward "Ned"	Spangler	18??-18??	Profile
12.	Mary E. (Jenkins)	SURRATT	1817-1865	Profile
12.1	Mary E. (Jenkins)	SURRATT	1817-1865	Genealogy FGS
13.	John H., Jr.	SURRATT	1844-1916	Profile
13.1	John H., Jr.	SURRATT	1844-1916	1870 Lecture
13.2	John H., Jr.	SURRATT	1844-1916	Genealogy FGS
14.	The	Conspirators		End of Nightmare for the Doomed!
15.	The	Conspirators		Notes & Reference

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