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also briefly named as a suspect by A. I. Fisher following a report by an unknown man identifying himself as the fictitious officer John Lyon. Boyle arrived in
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greeted or snuck in a side door and shot him eating dinner or reading in front of the fireplace. Watkins' wife Julia and infant daughter
Margaret were unharmed, as the attackers stole three more horses and departed just as another doctor arrived on-site and spotted them. The following day a local shop named Coffren's in
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refused to take the case, noting Boyle had been "one of the worst men he ever knew...good ridance". A local black man named Harry Barnes was briefly arrested, and the story circulated that he and Boyle had intended to rob a train together but upon Boyle withdrawing from the scheme decided to murder
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On Nov 9 1864 Boyle sent death threats to Dr. George Mudd, the cousin of Dr. Samuel Mudd - and later sent death threats to
Watkins. Boyle eventually returned to Watkin's home on March 25, 1865, with several cohorts, and sources differ on whether they knocked on the door and shot Watkins upon being
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in the days after the assassination, Mudd claimed that "fears of the vengeance of that desperado " had been the reason he'd not gone to authorities to report the stranger in the night who'd demanded treatment - as Boyle had threatened a relative of his. Pearson, the husband of Boyle's sister, was
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Lincoln's assassination, and remained in prison for seven years on the initial horse theft and assault on Watkins, as his uncles had procured Judge John T. Mason, Thomas S. Alexander and Oliver Miller as a defence team for him who successfully had his trial moved to
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alongside George Baden, William Berry and James Judson Jarboe. Jarboe was later named by Rev. William A. Evans as exiting the
Surratt boardinghouse some months before at the same time Dr. Mudd was seen entering it - although Jarboe denied ever having been there.
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Watkins acknowledged having used some unnecessarily extreme violence in restraining him, but some time later Boyle hit Watkins in the head with a scale-weight and escaped - working with underground Confederate forces in
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in 1872, for "his war-time activities", given that "Boyle is not expected to live a great while, and his friends intend to move him to
Florida". Boyle actually ended up working as a detective for the
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testified on May 1 that " Boyle also killed Capt. Watkins near
Annapolis last month, was one of the party, in the conspiracy", although there never seemed to be much evidence of Boyle's involvement.
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Rangers, who stabbed Seward, reports by War Department investigator Lt. David D. Dana initially named Boyle as the attacker. When investigators reached Dr. Samuel Mudd, who had treated
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who found himself in conflict with the law on several occasions, being arrested or captured at least five times and eventually being named as a suspect in the
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and argued he could not be tried for the murder until after he completed the sentence for the initial crime. Lincoln conspirator
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Boyle was shot one evening sitting at home with his family, but authorities had little interest in seeking the killer.
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