The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 16, 1947, Page 1

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-# pal ¢ == ee GREAT-GRANDFATHER ol, it } thoug! great. one. Dr. Mudd did ‘not. attend’ the showing of “The American Cousin”. at Ford’ Theater on Good Friday in the year 1865 at which’ Abraham Lincoln. was -}present with his wife. He could tess times. It happened when his owl a tragic story, it is a very +. 33" Overseas Hotel, 919 Fleming decisidne. 2 tide {Street, has withdrawn his protest |!" etorded from 1213 to 1933, Dopplet the $35,000 assessment ‘placed S, Was a 3.24 level above mean fon his establishment for 1947 by tide, Oct. 4, 1933, which the icity Assessor Harty. J. Elwo contained satisfactorily. 8 : oe sag to. take i ard to lows inate the flood con-]the assessment: to $25,000, ons. in’ Front street following appraisal comiiiittee, consisting peal from Felton to the ef-‘Cecil Carbonell, Albert J. Mills that the high water i ‘m his business. City acdsee ates ae git ta plast week to ment. In his letter to. the appraisal committee,” Ellingson pointed out o' OO "4 fled: Saturday wi Clerk. Ross, C, Sawyer, 2 lot. on Coes Maigndabe ly'ah Chee seas’ Highway Was-sdld “by!"the Matecunbe Sea -ang Guit, Estates, Inc., to | Edward a ‘Dade counity,f0r $1)500. Another lot 'in the same ‘sub- ther was a boy. 4 and Flagler avenue, ° got ‘under way today with’ 20 rolled: -5.40a8 Sehedtiled’ to’ get ‘stated night is a night class, designed for local residents, wh, cannot spend the daylight hours in the fschool. It is expected Ahat about President's death until the fol- lowing day when he went to Bryantown.,When he returned to his home, (wife told him. the two men had left. . Particular suspicion was.aroused when she not have known that during the | ‘!d him that “Tyler” had ap- rhino vod RMR RI ln onda NNR RUA ep aR 6 play John Wilkes Booth entered the President's unguarded box, fired a shot at him, and jumped aver the edge of the theater box lonto the stage, catching his foot in the folds of the American flag that draped it. Dr. Mudd did not hear the assassin’s final shout ‘of defiance. as he limped across pthe stage: “Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged!” He knew | nothing of the friend who metjfrom under the Sofa where it| today. It was about anatomy, ‘Booth outside the theater, nor of their plans to escape to Virginia. All he did know was that he “was aroused from sleep in his southern Maryland home at four g’clock the next morning by a be on horseback who asked him 'to set a broken leg. The patient b heuake uted jgave his name as Tyler. The. aided in an hour of great need | j ‘ by kind and sympathetic friends. 3 4 Sed rm c | Sarah. Mudd feared greatly for With authority whatever artistic |Intosh, USN, while the Henley: is {ing a young lady in Maryland./ the life of her husband during ; Problem they Lae cginane June 27 to install | Pr Mudd set “Tyler's” leg, eas-| the trial. When four of the eight! Basié studies e life draw-, of the Lions’ ed his pain, and gave him and his} friend food and lodging. for the{ Cause of his injury, he said, was Sauna ke promin-!# fall from his horse while visit- Lions affairs, will go Previously Saunders had Roy ji : quested to make the charter! If Booth had not been heavily 8 before the new Lions/disguised, Dr. Mudd would have at Riviera Beach, which is} known him, as did most people at! formed. by the West Palm Lions group. ~ Won ee i penaapabad TO. BE HERE ~ FO CERTIFY VETS atl: | The War Assets Office in Mi- ’ Myo A ami said today that dina aha 1125 Pearl | Officer pice’ Seuters from 9 - | 5 + be ednesday. Has-|County veterans for W.A.A. sales ‘business: purposes. mous as his brother, Booth, whom he envied. Then, too, made an earlier journey over southern Maryland in an unsuc- cessful attempt to abduct the President. Dr. Mudd had But, because of his theatrical ex- perfect that recognition was im- possible. NEW PIONEER. HOTEL 151 N.E. FIRST ST. In the Heart of Migmi' ‘ ‘The Rendezvous of Key West SERVICEMEN and ‘ CIVILIANS “Best For A Night's Rest” Peared to begwearing a false beard. Dr..Mudd reported the in- cident the next morning, but lit tle -attention was paid to _ it. 20 persons. will take advantage of the night classes, which run Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, ‘Teacher at the school is Chris- division -on Upper Matecumbe was sold by Mr. and Mrs. Gus H. Prescott: to Lloyd W. Tharp and wife. for. $900. | the doctor.gave all possible ad- teacher, who lately has finished jtenced to death, Mrs. Mudd had ;SQ™Position, anatomy, perspec- ‘a record of her husband's trial Pp A the time, because Booth wasasto the President's bench ana | 88764 out from the third floor ; threw down the printed books, Saying, “What you will do today famous actor, though not as fa- : Edwin “he was known to have Sim at the chifrch ‘he ee constitutional. Instead of open} see hundreds of fine studies for perience, Booth’s disguise was so Dr. Mudd did not learn of the| Ver not permitted to testify in; students, who came down to Key % ; e When officers came on Tuesday, | topher Clark, a noted painter and Sutton Arrives vice and assistance. They re-ithree years of similar work with A So Sch | turned again on Friday, at which|the Ringling ‘School of Art, Sara- t mar s 100: time the question of the disposi- ‘sota. 3 tion of Booth’s boot arose. Dr.| Clark got right down to the| sg, Sutton, DE, arrived here Mudd leaned down and pulled it | fundamentals in the instruction |today to become the ‘ip of the | the Fleet Sonar School Squadron had been since Booth’s visit, | formation “ef: the bones, the |to relieve the USS, Henley,.an- None of these actions seem te be | Muscles, the flesh, and how the | other destroyer, which leaves port those of an accomplice in crime, |gnes act under certain stresses, yet, because of them, Dr. Mudd, and how the muscles perform, was taken under arrest. The objective of the school is My great-grandfather was 32 at} to furnish to students conscien- the time. His young wife, Sarah, |tiously completing the full and four children were left alone, | Course, a training which will in- tomorrow for Norfolk, Va., where she will resume her duty as a unit of Destroyer’ Squadron 2 of the Atlantic Fleet. Capt. A. G. W. McFadden, USN, tis the squadron commander of the : “a. {Fleet Sonar School. sure them, ; insofar as possible,! The Sutton is under ‘the: com. | competence to handle well and! mand of Lt. Comdr. M. B. Mac- {commanded by Comdr. Dwight L, Moody, USN. i in} 2& and painting, head drawing} * 2 Beech Deine tate in OO aki onl Lis, design, |fashion illustration, _ advertising |°! tive, color theory and landscape. “This is a wonderful place for an art school, Clark said, so he per and fabric design. Should.a student, after a sonable amount of time, seem to have insufficient talent to war- rant further study; the teacher will-frankly advise him so, Hels, will not necessarily be dropped, since it often happens that a printed. Shortly before sentence was to be passed, she rushed uy of the cigar factory at-the sur- rounding water and the colorful to my husband will go down in! history as long as_ this print lasts.” This may have spared Dr. Mudd’s life. The trial, “I have been ‘all over the where I find such colorations ae by dint of hard and intelligent combined Why, I can stand in pee —— oes who are ob- was UN-ithe window of this school and| viously endow ag “It takes about 30 hours of hard work every week for nine however, civil procedure to which the! my brush, eight prisoners were entitled,| “Later, we in the school, beat months of every year for four they were tried by a military | undertake some landscapes. It is| years before @ person ¢an do a eomrhission in ‘Washington. They} no wonder that several of the) cornet | ti Nag artistic endeav- their own defense, and they were West, voted unanimously to Jater. denied the privilege of, bring this school here.” habeas corpus.and of appeal. Al-| Later it is planned for the 80, important evidence in the] classes to break up into special-| form of Booth’s diary. was with-; ized subject ae studies wi id by Secretary of War Stan-,be largely individual assignment Patontine On Inside Strip) with ‘individualized instruction,’ SHIRTS .... 23 each Ie nm (PANTS ...... ,araded KEPLACEMENT HCV Va tn ¢==— PARTS Se SAE a aia SRERHEREHENERERE ERR REY RD ROASTERS and FRYERS layout, mural design and wallpa- Ste world and this is the only place | student without apparént talent, |Curry of

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