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...clock on a cloudy April morning two horsemen clattered up to the country home of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd in Charles County, Md., 30 mi. southeast of Washington. One's face was tight with pain and his left leg, booted and spurred, hung limp from the stirrup. The other, a chinless, watery-eyed youth, helped his companion dismount, hobble into the house. Dr. Mudd received them in his nightshirt. A kindly, cultured young physician, he was already well established in his country practice, well-liked and well-to-do. He set the hurt man's broken...
...somehow build a strong navy or conclude an alliance with a potent naval power. Meantime time it served as a Federal penitentiary. At one time its shark-filled moat encircled more than 1,000 prisoners. In July 1865 it received, with a sentence of life imprisonment, Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd of Maryland...
Twice the year before had Dr. Mudd talked briefly with John Wilkes Booth. But on the early morning of April 15, 1865 the actor-assassin, fresh from the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, went to him in disguise under a false name, played his part so well that the country doctor never suspected his identity. Not until he heard the circumstances of Lincoln's death did Dr. Mudd grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned...
...Women's Championship was Mrs. Lyman Whitney of Boston, only living U. S. woman who has killed a deer with bow & arrow. She and the defending champion, Madeleine Taylor of New York, were defeated by a good-looking young woman from St. Louis named Mrs. G. De Sales Mudd. Mrs. Mudd had enough points (1,771) to win before her rivals began their last round. Slim, tall, with reddish hair and a hungry-looking Nordic face, Russell Hoogerhyde has been the foremost U. S. bowman since 1930. A onetime lifeguard at Michigan beaches, he came by his interest...
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