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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 37. (search)
an actor of a family of famous players; Lewis Powell, alias Payne, a disbanded rebel soldier from Florida; George Atzerodt, f was as brief and simple as it was horrible. Powell, alias Payne, the stalwart, brutal, simple-minded boy from Florida, was had done his work efficiently. His principal subordinate, Payne, had acted with equal audacity and cruelty, but not with eqe noise, stepped out into the hall to check the intruders. Payne rushed upon him with a pistol which missed fire, then raineSecretary's daughter and a soldier nurse were in the room. Payne struck them right and left, wounding the nurse with his kniwever, until he and the nurse had been stabbed repeatedly. Payne broke away at last, and ran down-stairs, seriously woundingre about to be taken to the office of the provost-marshal. Payne thus fell into the hands of justice, and the utterance of hJacob Thompson and Booth both kept accounts. Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Herold, and Atzerodt were hanged on July 7; Mudd, Arnold,