Lewis Payne/Powell was huge; his task was to assassinate Secretary of State Seward, prob. the best to ever occupy that position, at the same time as Lincoln. He barged into the Seward home, bashed his son on the head with a pistol, pointed the pistol at him and it jammed. He then went into Seward’s bedroom and stabbed at him repeatedly, Seward being protected by a wire contraption around his head but severe injuries to his face. Seward’s other son and a wounded Army orderly came in, smashed Payne down and saved Seward’s life. On the way out, Payne beat down Seward’s 20 year old daughter who died of fright a year later. Seward sent a servant to get the Army from a house a few hundred feet away and they policed the Seward home for the rest of the evening.