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Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection back, so as to place himself very far west- ward of his point of debarkation in Vir- ginia. ! But he would travel in a direct course from Bluff Point, j where he. orosjsgd take f to eastern Maryland, and this would him through Port Royal on the Rappahan- j nock river, in time to be intercepted there by the o.itgoing cavalrymen. "When, therefore, 25 men, under one Lieutenant Dougherty, arrived at his office door, Baker placed the whole under control ' of his former lieutenant colonel. E. .1. Con- '• ger. and of hi- cousin, Lieut. L i'.. Baker— : the first of Ohio, the last of New York -and bade them go with all dispatch to Belle there to dis- , Piaine, on th lower Potomac, embark and scour the country faithfully around Port Loyal, but not to return unless they captured their man. Conger is a short, decided, indomitable, courageous fellow, pro- vincial in his manners, but fully understand ing his business and as collected as a house- wife on Sunday. Voting Baker is largi and fine looking fellow- a si.-hijer, biu no policeman- and he deferred to Con; i-r, very t:y properly, dining most ot the eve its suc- feeding. "Quitting Washington at two p. in. o 1 Monday, the detectives and caval yincn dis- embarked at Be Piaine, oi the border of Stafford county, at ten k in the dark- ness- Belle i'iaine is mill s' the nearest landing to Fredericks);) ni miles from Washington. Here the steamer John S. Id e
stopped and made fast while the party gal- i loped off in tin darkness. Conger and! riding up to farmhouses! Baker kept ahead, Lafayette C. Baker, Kead of the Secret pretending to! and questioning the inmates, Service be in search of the. .Maryland gentlemen be- longing to the party. But nobody had seen just then came along, who threatened the the parties described, and alter a futile ferryman with a shot in the head if he did ride on the Fredericksburg road, they not instantly bring across his craft and turned shortly to the east and kept up transport the entire party. These cavalry- their battled inquiries all the way to Port men were of Mosby's disbanded command, Conway, on the Rappahannock. returning from Fairfax Court House to TOWARD BOWLING GREEN their homes in Caroline county. Their cap- "On Tuesday morning they presented tain was on his way to visit a sweetheart themselves at the Port Royal ferry and in- at Bowling Green and he had so far taken Booth under his patronage that tho quired of the. ferryman, while he was taking when latter was haggling with Lucas tor a team, them over in squads of seven at a time, if offered Booth use, he had seen any two such men. Continuing he both and Herold the of his horse to ride and walk alternately. their inquiries at Port Royal, they found In this way Lucas was providentially done one, Rollins, a fisherman, who referred them out of a job, and Booth rode off toward to a negro named Lucas, as having driven Bow ling Green behind the Confederate cap- two men a short distance toward Bowling tain on one. and the same horse. Green in a wagon. It was found that these men answered the description, Booth having "So much learned, the detectives, with Rollins for a guide, dashed off in the bright a crutch as previously ascertained. The day before Booth and Herold had applied j daylight of Tuesday, moving southwestward
\ through the level plains of Caroline, seldom at Port Conway for the general ferryboat ' stopping ask questions, save at a certain but the ferryman was then lisbing ami te i half-way would not desist for the inconsiderable fare house, where a woman told them that the cavalry party of yesterday had re- of two persons, but to their supposed good j ; turned minus one man. As this was far fortune a lot of Confederate cavalrymen ' from circumstantial, the party rode along in the twilight and reached Bow-ling Green at 11 o'clock at night. This is the court- house town of Caroline county—a small and scattered place, having within it an ancient tavern, no longer used for other than lodg- ing purposes; but here they hauled from his bed the captain aforesaid, and bade him dress himself. As soon as he comprehended the matter he became pallid and eagerly narrated all the facts in his possession.
i Booth, to his knowledge, was then lying at the house of one Garrett, which they had J passed, and Herold had departed the exist- | ing day with the intention of rejoining him. 'faking this captain along for a guide, the worn-out horsemen retraced, though some of them were so haggard and wasted with travel that they had to be. kicked into intel- ligence before they could climb to their saddles. The objects of the chase thus at hand, tho detectives, full of sanguine pur- pose, hurried tho cortege so well along that by two o'clock in the morning all halted at Garrett's gate. A NOISELESS APPROACH "In the dead silence Baker dismounted and forced the outer gate; Conger kept close behind him, and the horsemen fol- lowed cautiously. They made no noise in —
swered that it was not necessary, he- BKQOKIAJN DAILY KAGLK, NEW YORK, cause the doctor was coming in the i i morning. I asked what was wrong with the patient and the old man replied: ,'He has a broken leg.' CAPTOR OF LINCOLN'S SLAYER "It must have flashed over my com- panions in that instant, as it flashed over me, that the man in the barn was NOW BUDAPEST HOTEL PORTER Wilkes Booth. We knew that Booih In jumping from the box to the stage where he shot Lincoln had injured his Birnbaum Loves to Tell How, as u Youth in Yankee Blue, He leg. I could see the faces of my com- rades change. However, we said noth- Aided in Capture of Wilkes Booth He's an Old and ing, hut hurried away to report to the — lieutenant. Broken Man Now. "You v, ill wonder why the farmer who was harboring the assassin told us so much. It was because he thought By DOItOTHY THOMPSON. hlm passed by, and so we arrested him we were Confederate soldiers. In those days in Maryland nearly all the (Special Correspondence The Eagle also. Later I saw Herold hung. I dc Con- of federates were wearing blue uniforms. and Phila. Ledger; Copyright, I9.i.i.) not like hangings," he concluded sim- ply.' "But I am proud that I helped Surroiuided the yienna, Feb. 1 —The broken old m>;.n Barn. bring to justice the men who murdered "We reported 1o our who takes your things in the cloak lieutenant end the greatest soul who ever lived. And at midnight surrounded the barn. room of the Bristol Hotel in Budapest We I am proud that I was once a citizen of went quietly, for we wanted to capture will stop you if he recognizes you to br- Lincoln's country." Booth alive, without a tight. Boston an American and will tell you that he, How came an American citizen from Corbett, one of our company, was a prosperous family to be serving out too, was an American once, and if you standing by "my side. He peered his years across the world as the por- through greet him with more than a nod and a a chink in the. wall and saw ter of a Hungarian hotel? Here is that Booth had heard us and risen as curt "So?" he will tell the remark- you the rest of the story: well as he could ami that he had a car- able story of a Hungarian lad who "I came abroad in 1867. The war bine and was ready to tire. Simul- had told on me. 1 strong enlisted in the Union Army, fought was not and taneously Corbett cocked his own rifle. when I was demobilized I was quite ill. throughout the Civil War and played "Dougherty cried out 'Don't fire!' But I went to take a job in New Orleans too late. Corbett tired, an important role in one of the memor- hitting Boolh and there I got yellow fever and doc- behind the ear. able events of American history—the We heard a low scream tors ordered me to come abroad. So 1 that capture of Wilkes Booth, the slayer of was hardly more than a catch of did. 1 had no intention of coming the breath. Lincoln. That event is more than 50 back to Hungary and many times since wasn't years in the cloak room porter's p.ist "He dead yet when we Look then" —his voice lowered a little—-"I and most of the 50 years have been him out—him and his accomplice Her- wish I hadn't. I was in England aid old. Herold all right spent in Hungary and are full of ex- was and we bound Erance and Germany and then I took him and laid him on the citement and tragedy. But to the por- ground beside it into my head that I would like .o Booth. ter in the Bristol that afternoon so Booth's hair was in ribbons come back and see the city where I - across long ago when he and a squad of his forehead and his eyes were was born. Ah! Budapest in those divsi glazed American soldiers penetrated into a Just before he die,), though, was a wicked city. It was full of] they blazed once. cabin in (he up I stood at hi: Maryland and found there exotic temptations to a young man feet, as close as 1 am to you, and as he slayer of Lincoln is the great memory with plenty of taste lor money and a died he called upon his mother in- of his life. He recounts the story ten- and adventure. 1 stayed on —one monlh, cried: '[ die for derly, as one refers to an old romance, my country!' two months, three months. And th( n "That is all. every detail so picturesque and vivid We carried him to a suddenly I was conscripted into the boat in I he river that listening- one can ace the ca;-U< ;, e near by and as we Hungarian Army andfordered to join wore putting the and feel the excitement. body on hoard the the Army of Occupation in Bosnia. doctor who had been called to attend Known as "JPcartree" in Army, Couldn't Prove His American Citizen- "My name is J. H. Bi rnhaum_, but in ship. the days when i was a soldier in rhe 16th N. Y. Cavalry, Co. K, they cal'ed "Sometimes, I suppose, you get ir- me by the English version of that ritated with all the visas and docu- name—Peartree. I was only a little; ments you have to carry with you boy when my parents emigrated to these days. But in those days ther:- America. They prospered there. We weren't any passports, and that fact had a fine house then in old New i'ork caused me a greater inconvenience all at 8 Washington pi., but it was torn than you have ever suffered in down long ago. My father would have >our life. I had wo way to prove I citizen. I educated me well, but when I was 10 1 was an American was ran away and joined the Union forces. registered in the birth registry in That was in 1863. Budapest. All I had with me was "During the war our regiment was my discharge certificate from the sent to defend the capital and we were in my. There was then no American stationed in the camp of Vienna, in Consul in Budapest, and though Mr. Virginia, not far from Washington. Causer, who had an agency here, tele- The night that Lincoln was killed we graped about me to the Ambassador he unable to do were all called to the capital and our in Vienna, seemed to Bosnia. regiment was divided into scouting anything. They sent me 12 years served in the Hun- parties of all kinds, all under the com- Tor I mand of Lieutenant Baker. The pany garian Army. "Well, I married. T made my home to which I belonged had 35 men under Lieutenant Dougherty. here. I had children. I even en- joyed certain prestige because I had "Our party marched into Maryland a been in the United States and could the day after Lincoln was killed. The perfect English. Now it seems same night as we rode through the speak that every other person in Budapest countryside we came upon a little speaks English, but it was not so in forest. In the center was a clearing the 80s. I was a member of a very and a little farm and there was a cabin exclusive colony. with a light inside. were tired and We "But bad luck has followed me al- hungry and the lieutenant said to me: ways. I had three, sons. I brought 'Go and see whether that farmer will them up to love America, and the give you anything to eat.' picture which they have of me in a "Sick Man in the Barn." Union uniform is the most treasured "Two or three others went with me. possession of our household. But they I remember it all so clearly. As wo had to fight against the Allies in the opened the door we saw a bearded old war, and one of them was killed, one man with a kindly, pious face sitting went insane and one had both arms and reading the Bible by candlelight. and legs shot away. s When we asked the. old farmer for "So now, in my old age, T must, food he said there was nothing in the support my crippled son and my poor left house but a jug of milk and that be sick son, who are all , I have that when could not give us because he needed it for my wile died —like — for a sick man who was housed out in she heard that our other boy was hard now his barn and was under his care. I lulled. And times are asked if we might see the invalid in and I am old." order to help him, but the farmer an- SAW BOOTH ESCAPE. Reader Writes of the Day» of Lincoln. To the What Do You Think Editor —Sir: A correspondent expressed a' desire for some incidents from per- sons who had some personal ex- perience involving President Lin- coln. Well, here goes:
From 18G3 to 1865 I was a resident of Washington. About the month of February, 1865, being then not quite 11 years of age, I found my- self one day in a long line to greet the President. When it came to my turn to shake hands he stopped, asked my name, my age and where
I was from. After I' had answered he patted me on the head and said' "Nice little boy!" I have always felt very proud of this. After our civil war was ended. President Lincoln issued a procla- mation for a celebration. He named Friday, April 14, as the date. Well, I was one of a party who saw all the illuminations on Pennsylvania avenue and elsewhere. The main illuminations consisted of a lighted candle in each pane of glass ot the twelve-paned windows Tha effect was very grand for those days. We called on some friends on the now obsolete "island" on Maryland ave- nue, near the Potomac, and about 10 P. M. started for our illuminated home on Delaware avenue, corner of B street, on the site of the pres- ent Senators Building. As we were walking up A street, beside the Capitol grounds, a rider in a cloak passed furiously by us. It was Booth, who had just shot our mar- tyr President, as we learned the next day. I shall never forget the intense grief of the populace, big strong men weeping convulsively. F. G. BRILL. . / V«_^«lC*^»r—iyyx,.«~~~*
I There is little doubt that he had talked to some of them of his kidnap- ing- plan, in October! but there was no ' evidence that he saw any of them after that, while the government declined to acknowledge that there had been two plots framed by Booth, one to kidnap Lincoln, and the other, adopted at the Present eleventh hour, to kill him. Illinoisan Waa No El iileuce Again))! Dili in. Hv. The evidence relied upon to connect Booth Trail Jefferson Davis with the assassination 'KfEnd of consisted of a letter found at Kich- As Harold walked out of the barn and one person, A. W. Cash of , surrendered the torch was applied to mond, addressed to Mr. Davis and j Decatur. 111., is "yet living "61" the I the barn. The flames quickly spread dorsed by him "referred to the Secrep. fc»«rrVr. BUT little group who witnessed the and lighted up the interior, showing laiy of War," whose writer offered to death of John Wilkes Booth, the , Booth plainly as he stood near the door, rid the South of "its worst enemies," assassin of Abraham Lincoln, i debating whether to emerge or die in and testimony as to what Mr r>avls his capture by a detachment i the flames. He carried a crutch to "keep said when he heard that following Lincoln had Cavalry. leg. Baker's I his weight from his fractured been assassinated. of Col. Cash, as a boy, lived upon a farm ad- Trooper Corbett, disregarding his order, The news readied Mr. Davis at Char- joining the Garrett homestead in Car- poked his rifle through a crevice of the lotte, X. C, in a telegram from John C. roll County, Va., where Booth was over- structure and fired the fatal shot. Brecken ridge, who was at Greensboro. taken. When galloping troopers passed Cash ridicules the story that the Davis and a few companions in his the Cash farm and halted at Garrett's wrong man was captured and that flight 1 nMr. were stopping at the house of the entire Cash family hastened over to Booth escaped and died many years F. ', ^-' Lewis Bates, a native of Massachu- see what had transpired. later in Oklahoma. The tattooed initials setts,; who was superintendent Decatui '" of an Lucy, an older sister of the i of J. W. B. upon the arm of the assas- express compan>. man moved by pity when Booth, after sin and the positive identification by Mr. Bates testified that after reading being shot by Boston Corbett, one of the his relatives and others who knew him !• the telegram aloud at the end of a troopers, was carried from the bain remove all doubt that the right man '• speech made from the steps of his Where he had taken refuge, to the porch was taken. to check .(witness') house, Mr. Davis said: "If it of the Garrett home, attempted At the time of Lincoln's assassina- blood. Booth, however, was of age. was ; were to be done, it were better it were the flow of tion Booth was 2S years He | lew minute:: well done;" that at table in his house too far gone. He died a a man of striking presence, with hand- lap of Mr. Davis repeated the remark and later, his head resting upon the some features and winning manners, girl. yet given to the most violent dissipa- added: "If the same had been done to the , took place, between Andy Johnson, the beast, and to Secre- The colljfluy that tions and excesses of every description. 1 vouched tary Stanton, the job Col Baker and the fugitive, as As an actor he gave promise of being would have been as complete." for by the, .Decatur man, was about the equal of his older brother, and his This testimony was not impeached follows: income averaged $20,000 per annum, give up your before Col Baker—You must enormous for that period. the court; hut the nun who to arms and surrender. We have come Plots for poisoning or abducting the were with Mr. Davis, on hearing of it, as you prisoner and will treat you President having failed. Booth deter- denied its accuracy. They agreed that take will give you live minutes to shoot The collapse of the telegram was not read by Mr% such. We mined to him. surrender and if you do not do so we the rebellion was imminent. Booth Davis, but by another man; that Air. will burn the barn. imagined that the shooting of the Bates was not present at the time, and Booth—Who are you and what do you President would save the South, and that the remarks attributed to him by want? . was willing to become a martyr. Mr. Bates were fabrications. Col., gj (Instructions had been issued to Cash recalls that the last words of With Mr. Davis that day of was John Baker not to disclose the identity Booth were, "Tell mother that I died H. Reagan, of Texas, Confederate Post- Booth's pursuers.) for my country. I did what I thought - master General to (afterward United, Baker—We want you. We intend was for the best." Slates Senator), who wrote of Lln-j take you prisoner. When he attempted to raise his coin's death in his memoirsmemoirs: Booth—This is a hard case. It may hands, as the paralysis of death came "The by friends. i President ( Mr. Davis) and be that I am to be taken my upon him, he muttered. "Useless. Use- members of for life. I am his Cabiinet, with one acT Give me a chance my less." He then lapsed into unconscious- cord, your 100 yards greatly regretted the occurrence! crippled. Withdraw men ness. ' E. E. PIERSON. We felt that his death was most un-j from the barn and I will come out and fortunate for the Confederacy." fight you. Mr. Bates' testimony as to Mr. Davis; Baker—We did not come hereto fight, comment on Lincoln's death was Hit! nearest the commission could bring but to take you prisoner. You must i J Jefferson Davis to Booth's crime. give up your arms and surrender.
When all the evidence was sifted, and (Booth was armed with two six-bar- • the character of the chief witness to reled and one seven-barreled revolvers i . the "Great Conspiracy" is established, and a carbine.) \ the impartial student of today is Booth—Let me have time to consider. obliged to believe that not a scintilla! A conversation then ensued between . of evidence was produced to connect . Booth and his companion, David Har- any of the Confederates named in the old, urging Booth to surren- charge with the murder of Lincoln. the latter der. Finally Booth was heard to say: (Copyright, 1015. Wintleld M. Thompson.) "You coward. Will you leave me now? Tonion ow -Trial of Uooth's As- But go ahead. I don't want you to stay » i ; with me now." soclates. V Booth then resumed the parley.
Booth—Who are you? I could have . ' picked off half a dozen of your men while we were talking, but I do not want to kill anybody.
Baker—Then give up your a'rms and 1 surrender. We have come here to take i you.
Booth—I will never surrender. I will I never be taken alive. Baker If you don't do so immediate- — g ly we will Are the barn. Booth—Well, my brave boys, prepare a stretcher for me. \-
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1949 2 The California Eagle, Thursda y. February 10. An Eyewitness Account ®
Lincoln's Assassination
Philadelphia. The Through the courtesy of David I Society Of subject of this article,—reference E. Pool of 525 Soto Street, a dis- the Lincoln assassination,—is tant relative of the Lincoln fam- to found in volume two of the re- ily, and a member of the Chuck- published by the Lewis buck family, the California Eagle port, Historical Publishing Co. of New and its readers are given a side- in 1913. light of history as it is available York page 676 of the report, in the Genealogy and Personal On appears an item which History of Northern Pennsylva- there Martha Chubbuck married nia. shows January 31, The Genealogical Report was John Lincoln on prepared under the personal su- 1670. is reported that pervision of John W. Jordan, On page 677 it Lorenzo Chubbuck, born LL.D., Librarian of the Historical Hollis him when he fell Bed- have caught August 23i 1828 at Towanda, of the had it not een for some ford County, Pennsylvania, was excited stage hands who blocked Ford's Theatre when CflLIFOBHlfl EAGLE present in way." Lincoln was assassi- my president L. Chubbuck Lot Angeles I I, Calif. Colonel Hollis nated. was for many years Assistant According to an account that Commissioner of Agriculture un- appeared in the St. Louis Globe Vol. 69—No. 45 der Isaac Newton, and for more Democrat at that time, Hollis Thursday, February 10, 1949 than thirty years, he was an of- Chubbuck was close enough to ficer of the law among the Cher- assassin Booth to have SUBSCRIPTIOhTRATES the okee and Osage Indiana $4.00 caught him. who I Year It was Colonel Chubbuck Chubbuck is quoted in the ar- 6 Monthi $2.25 touched the match to the barn £0e said: "I was Per Copy - ticle as having assassin Booth was Lincoln where the within a few feet of Mr. been cornered. Published every Thursday by supposed to have when he was assassinated. I saw never California Eagle Publishing However, Chubbuck was The Booth walk along the aisle next Company, 4071 South Central certain that the man consumed to the wall and pass through the Avenue. Entered as Second Class by the flames of the burning door onto the stage. I was watch- Matter November 3, 1937, at the barn was Booth. In later years Angeles, Cali- ing him closely but not suspi- Post Office at Los he went tto Enid Oklahoma to March 3, fornia under the Act of ciously. view the remains of a suicide "He walked up behind the 1879. NEWS- who was fought to be Booth. INTERSTATE UNITED president, and before I knew or PAPERS, Inc. Chubbucfc unhesitatingly stat- Representatives realized what he was up to he National Advertising ed that, in his opinion, the man 645 Fifth Ave., New York City stepped nimbly aside and a deaf- Murray Hill 2-5452 was Booth and the man burned It was all ening shot rang out. was not Booth. Editor-Publisher in the barn Charlotta A. Bass. .. done so quick no one seemed to the John M. Lee Managing Editor "I sometimes feel positive realize what had happened. dead man I saw in Enid," Colonel "While it may seem incredible, Membei ol the Associated Chubbuck said, "was Booth and small railing Negro Press, Olvin'sNewspaper I leaped from the again I look back over the many Service, Ted Yates Publications, around the orchestra to the foot- Inc., Independent Pieis Service. intervening years, and think I This newspaper reserves the right lights and was within a few publication all press may be mistaken. to print for inches of the assassin when he dispatches, features and photos "...1 have nothing to go by, forwarded by these agencies or dodged around some scenery. I cat-like move- Otherwise credited to them. only the stealthy, I would followed and I know as he ! ments of the actor (Booth) 'i ... H n.il t ii 'Trpproached his victim, and the frenzied dash of the murderer after the terrible deed had been perpetrated." Colonel Hollis Chubbuck lived among the Cherokee, Creek and Osage Tribes following his trip to Springfield for the funeral of Abraham Lincoln. He carried a commission as a Deputy United States Marshal, and he frequent- ly took part in court proceedings at Fort Smith, Arkansas when Judge Parker was on the bench. SAW WILKES BOOTH DIE. •It wui abwu: daylight when Ua died. Odd of Hi; The Story as Told by One ot Ills crutoaes was burned. The otuer Captors. we took with us, We put Harold ou a horse. tne body [Prom ili» Buffalo Commercial.] tt\ tying ills ukb beneath, it, aud.witu wsko'd, started Pact to tua Frederick Deltz. of Colden, Krla Couatj ol Booth la a Coat- -W* marciKHi «l( day. not 10 \\ ashing- ra. .enjoys tne distinction ot having Oeon ton ne xt laornion. and' ualoarted the uoay «ot to one of tite handful ot Union soldiers who i n the navy yard. The new* Wash and mure was a crowd surrounded 'Garrett's Darn, near Bowitna Ington before we did, *"•,!« lu tne nary yard. A lew days afterward niornlnit ot April go. leuo Green, Ya., on the tUfl galua S q Uaj ot soldiers want back to the —that historic Darn in which John Wilkes place where wa got Booth, i'art of tne at hay Mr Mgug popped utM • Uj. Bpotft. slayer ot Lincoln, stood J*™*^ will be 53 years old on the 23d ot next noiol Deitz 1Uu, d _ He was found in tua sauio April. He has been a farmer at Coldan for W here he was caught Darore. ,000 reward offered by tno Gov- years. Ue belonged to Company E I ••The S100 nineteen eminent was divided up between us ac ot the dOth'New York Cavalry, and was la rank. Lieut. Uoherty got $lu.- assassinated cording to Virginia wnea Lincoln was 000. Boston Oorbotl got iiouo. Sly share lino \\ ashlng- '•My regiment was called was $1683.70. The check for It was seat to ton, and attended the funeral ot Lincoln," 6prlhgueiu. Cattaraugus County. this state, lu a chat wltn u Buff-ito Com- said Mi'. Deltz. a year alter 1 aoi home. It set uio u p Id a squi.u irom tite regi- mercial reporter. "A nice way lu housekeeping. I had nfiy aoras ror constantly. ment loupt looking Booth aud I sold it and bougut loo after ot laud tuen, On the morning of April :"-i. ton duys coidou. I've got a wita und six saddles' was acres at Lincoln was shol>, 'boots and r.uliuren — nve uoys and one girl— and they sounded, and lwent>--ei|{Ut won rec.pon.iod. what ate u a living." 1 was among the:u. Wa ulun't know ••Where are tho rest ot that squad ot wa were Called for or wnero we Were going. Beltz asuad. tna men?" Mr. was Lieut. Dohorty was In command ot •scattered Iar and v.ioo. and most or squad. He inarched ua to tho navy yard dead, very likely," ho replied. "1 thou na sliowa.i us a them anu onto a boat. And' Know ot only ouo Hint Is living besides told us If we saw a picture ot Booth, and myself. He is in Chicago. 1 have no knowl- to tuke him. dead man ot that appearance edge ot the rest of mem." or alive, vve landed away up In VU'Klula o'clock in the uiorulug, and auout 2 | inarched uutll daylight. Wo hud no ratious. At uuyligbt we went to tanu housesjn tne neighborhood and got breakrusi.. than marcned until uoon, and got dinner tlia same way. The people were rebels, but were very friendly. I ••After dinner we came to the Kapldan i Liver aud crossed on a terry, and, inarch- lag on about two Uilies, came within night ot ihe house where Booth was. WedlJi't know at that tlmo that he was there, out altorward learned that from me veranda ot , the louiii he saw us inarch by. We kepi marching until me inutile or tho night, tnau stopped at a hotel In a little village. Where we captured Or. Wu Id, who set Booth's brokeu legend haiped him across tne I'oto- muc- Tho Doctor— atter ward hanged, you tnow— was lu Dad at tne hotel- We stopped Just lout' enough for tua Doctor to got ready, and then s aried straight oack to where booth was, taking U . Mudd with us. But he escapaa ou the way. Heseoniad to'be willing enough to no along, and ua was allowed to go to a farm house tor a drink. Wo pushod on, for we were In a hurry, and the .Doctor called to follow. I,e escaped, but was soon caught. Wo got to the farm house about 2 o'clock In the morulas and surrounded It. It was 10 or 12 rods rro.u the roau. There wus a veranda almost clear arouad It. The rebel who owned the house, a young man. came out of a little barn near by and askod what wo. wanted, lie In the wus usked If there was a stranger house. He said. 'No, but ihore are two meu In that uurn.' pointing to auotuar barn a tew rods away. ••Wa surrounded tho barn nail sent In ttin Confederate to tell the men to come out. It was qulio dark. 1'retty soon the Confodetate came running out in alarm. Booth nad threatened to snoot him. charging nlm with having betrayed him. Then booth bagau talking, asking what we wanted. He was told to surrender and to return to Washing- ton with us. He said he wouldn't come out. He said he hail his way niaao tor Mex- ico and would have got thara only for his bro'ti»n leg. He Was again ordered to sur- render. Then ne told the l.ioutaaunt to draw otf his man fifty paces and ha would come out nnd have a fair light, lie had two seven-snooter levolvers, a seven-snooter carbine and a big dagger or knlte. The to*surren- I leutonant ugalu called to Booth der. Booth said the young man with him (Harold) was willing to surrender. •••Hand out your arms, then. said the
Lieutenant. , •• "fhe arms that are here are mine,' re- plied Booth. Thau Harold was told to hold up his hands nnd come out. aud he did so. Jaai then a piau-l thought ha was u sailor who had come along wltn us from the boat —came up past mo where I was at the rear of the barn and sot Are to it. When Booth the are he triad to imwple It out, but saw he it wus too much for him. and when found he was uuuble to master it ho made for the door at tha trout of the barn. Tho lire was pretty bright by this time, and boston Corbjlt. looting through a crack; lu could see booth com- the front of the barn, j log toward the door. Ha put his revolver . to the crack and fired. Tne ball went I Booth's necK. through the clear thiDugn ] back part ot tho Darn, and dropped within a pace of me. 1 could see It knock up to pick It up. If the dirt. I never thought a fortune out ot 1 had 1 might nave made he wassnot. it Booth dropped the moment the house. \\"e curried HI in to the porch ot Ho lived about an hour and a halt. Ills only words were to tell us to give his Dast ne died respects to his parents, und to suy J for hbi country. — - »— V/iilGUT | JOHH WILKES pOQTfj,
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Storyof His Capture Told by; His Captor.
3 CAPTAIN EDWARD P, DOHERTY.
He Ih a Democrat, a TuunuauyKe nail la Iu«i>ect«)r of Struct Paving in ' New Yorjs City—A Urnphlc Ac-; .- count «t the l>euil» of Abru- ^1.
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' . The Republic Bureau. - , 146 Times Building. Now York, Ja n.' 19.—Among- the Tammany officeholders who will probably fall' under Mayor Strang's ai In due course of tjm? Is a man who took a leading part In the capture of John Wilkes Booth in April, 1865. He is. Edward P. J^oherty, the General Inspector of Paving In "the Department of Public Works. He is tha, officer who commanded the company of Javalry which tracked Booth to his hiding, place after the assassination of President Lincoln, and although the tragic events of 80 years ago are dim In some memories. Captain Doherty remembers every detail of Booth's capture and death. At the time of I4n-
.il John Wilkea Booth. coin's assassination he was J in command i of Co. G. Sixteenth New York Cav- alry, stationed Vat Washington. During the exciting days following j the assasslna- tion , squads of {tie troopers In Captain t Doherty'a company were ordered to ao companyl the detectives. Captain Doherty, who la now commander pf Veteran Posti G. [436, A. R., and gran marsnall for Jhe City and County j of New York, says his men had < very little faith In the detective* ' One day Captain Doherty received an' order ; from General Howard to report %" Colonel | Baker, the chief agent of the WarS Department, | with 26 men, wejl jnountecT fw»4 with- three" Says* rations and forage'] What happened Captain | Doherty tells as i S follows: • « "I reported, and Colonel Baker gave me* the photographs of John Wilkes Booth ' Daniel E. Harrold, >and the others who fa,yera thought, to h«. jggjfcHtn'
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liefillntr the Martyr's Grave. Do you know what an assassin is? Perhaps not experimentally, but yo-j rroitt the Charleston Ifeins and Courier. know as much about him, in theory, as is necessary for your comfort and well The statement that Mr. Lincoln being. But do you know how he got his name, and how the man who handed was "martyred for his devotion to his that name down to him got It in the first place? An assassin is not a cold- country" is. we think, subject to serious blooded murderer who attacks his victim in a gentlemanly way, giving the vic- doubt and fair challenge in defense or escape. goes at the game of murder j the interestt tim even a surface show of He of historic truth. The diary of Wilkes devious manner, leaving no loophole for a possible failure of I y in a cunning and Booth, vrhich probably contained a his plan. He inherited the method along with the name, from Hassan Ben statement of Booth's motives for his de- Sabbah, who headed a great religious and military order in Syria about the plorable crime, was destroyed or sup- close of the eleventh century. This u nprincipled old soldier was a fellow-stu- pressed, for some reason, by the Federal dent of Omar Khayyam, the poet, whose quatrains are commonly regarded in authorities, at the time of his capture the Western world as the only poetry the Persians ever wrote. and death, and his real motive is there- When their school days were over, Hassan was found guilty of treason to fore unknown to the public. We have his government and was banished, tie did not -go alone! He took with him all heard an interesting- story going- to the soldiers who had served under him, and to them he added all the ad- prove that it was a purely personal mo- venturous fellows who came within the sound of his preaching. He promised tive, and have been assured that the them untold joys in Paradise if they would risk their lives in his campaign facts are known to some persons both in of murder and robbery. In order more easily to convince them that they were in holy crime he would distort their moral vision by copious doses ; Washington and Richmond. Perhaps engaged "assassin" is literally "hashish eater." It was the deadly , they will be made public some day. It of hashish. So a (' may be that there is no private, history that made assassination possible. drug >J>/s\ > // connected with the great trag-edy. But in any event, seeing- that Booth, s privat papers have been so carefully sup pressed, it certainly is not safe, from a historical point of view, to say what rao-
, tive really actuated him; which is the
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What Booth Said. Having read many versions of what actually took place and what •was said at Ford's theater, Wash- ington, on the night of President Lincoln's assassination I think it might not be amiss to give Maj. H. R. Rathbone's version of it, he be- ing the only man in the box with the president. He heard a pistol report and thru the smoke he saw a strange man John Wilkes Booth —whom he in- stantly clutched. The stranger dropped his pistol and struck at the major with a dagger which he held in his left hand, inflicting a danger- ous wound. At the same time he leaped over the rail of the box, still brandishing the dagger and exclaim- ing as he went over, "Sic semper tryannis!" In descent his spur caught in an American flag which draped the president's box, causing him to twist his ankle as he alighted on the corner of the stage. Turning to the audience he murmured "The south is avenged."—Letter to New York Herald. / f 2 I
I —John Wilkes Booth was shot in a barn near Bowling Green, Va., April 26, 1865, twelve days after the as- sassination of President Lincoln, by
I Boston Corbett. His body was first buried in the arsenal at Washington. In 1866, at the request of Edwin Booth, the remains were removed to a cemetery in Baltimore, and were interred by the side of those of his father and other members of his fam- ily—Chicago Herald. Nov. 2, 1882.
.Major Fd-vtard—F?, Uoherty, who lives in New York, is the oiheer who com- manded the detachment of the, sixteenth. New York cavalry that pursued, shot and captured .). Wilkes liooth in April, 180."). He is now commander of Veteran 430, and is employed Post, at present aa J an inspector on a $3,000,000 paving job V/K I uhx his in city. I ^ S *>
THE CAPTOR AND THE EXECUTIONER OF THE ASSASSINS 134. (LINCOLN). DOHERTY, EDWARD P, Cap- tain of 16th N. Y. Cavalry, who had captured John Wilkes Booth and Herold, One of the Conspirators. Cabinet photograph, signed by him, right beneath the portrait. On verso of the portrait the following: Washington, D. C, April 28th, 18C5. This photo was taken the day after I brought the body of J. Wilkes Booth and the Prisoner Herold, two of assassins of A. Lincoln to Washington. D. C. KDWARD P. DOHERTY, "Cant. 16th N. Y. Cav., Captor of Booth and Harold. (LINCOLN). RATH, CHRIS, Capain. Conducted the execution of the Lincoln Conspirators. A. L. S. 4to full page, to newspaper editor, May, 1892. Newspaper stories went the rounds that Booth was still alive, that the hooded corpses on the gal- lows had not been those of the conspirators. Capt. RATH furnishes in this letter an affidavit that he actually executed with his own hands, after hav- ing built the gallows, Mrs. Surrat, Payne, HEROLD etc. Describes the scene with Gen. Hartranft reading the death sentence etc etc. NO SUCH DOCUMENT EXISTS ELSEWHERE. We can offer both of these HISTORICAL LETTERS ETC FOR 97.50. v :'
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Lieut, Uaaer told Got Conger that bo would vide dowo the river tq toe ferry, about half a mile away, SBooip mm and tea what he eonld und. Aecompanled by ait OpE onierlv. he rode, to the ferry, where he net a nthcr- tun by the name of Hellion. Tim Llenteuant asked him if a party of men. one of them lauie. (for Boot a ll*4 broken hla leg la Jumping front, the theatre- boa XOJiE. ttaco. ) within or OXCE , to the bad arotaad the river a day uu ooth aud Harold, ho aaiT or ?as mcbdebeb by l»ut. l. at once recognized them. Lieut. Baker Im- TBK mediately ten* tbo orderly to CoU ' Conner, B. BAB88, WHO SAD C0JOUS0 0I> asking htm to bring the etcort to the ferry ?ABTT. at ante. Tbo ferry-boat wat a cnay affair, and the afternoon wat eontuined la getting the m;n aud RrpvbHckn. iront ibt lamintj (Slit*.) hornet acrota tbe river. Rolllne pretended to bo a In a rtceut number of the Nuw-Orloans Vuion nan. end waa willing to go ae a guide, but feared peraecutlou from |ilt se^bbort uclttl PtaeyiMM a ttatement purporting to eom* appear* prtl under arret*, Tbla Waa dou*. Koltllit
Capi. J?tt, o' tractor la N»w-Orl**B*. ia wUieh It detailed torn* of one Vothv t cpmwaud. , who fat- qatnlly weal to Jfc>»ri ig Ureon. about- Jb. a'Wdit- the Incident* relative to tn* capture and kUUna of taui to tc-e h.e tweetheuri. Her parent* kept a ho- Jonu Wllliaa Booth. th* inuila of Pr**id*nt Lin- tel, and ho thought the whole party had gone there. Jan about dntk hot out for tola. Tbtr* an 10 ninny fitting lna**nr*el*a la in* the party Uowiiui tireen. They had not gone i'ur before they discov- that ar» »o: tub- article. 10 tneay atatemaBU ered two men. mounted on horaea. at the fork ot tbe ttaniUted by facta and by to* record* of tb* War t'redericktburg aud bowling Green roada, who Department, that wo bar* obtained a hlttory of tb* teemed to be watelitng th* movement! of the
BOW a clerk la the Auditor-General'! offices bat who I , (, rtptdly on the ourtaed that they turned their
"-"> I hortcuen proved aftorwurJ to he Harold, the place > -f pur»altt>eljg only one and u half mile! from the •' '-- '-"' -' "--'' • 1 —|| tecreted. —Isrht, when 'Z''". " '•>• party dilwouuted and turrounded the hotel '."irTT "7i 7 "i^rw..of the War n.«..,™«tDepartment, Chief of tbe detective foreo wb*r» Jett'» aw'ewiBeari wat »uppo»«d to rctlde. and Lieut. L. B. Baker were la New-York City Jpokt She waa there, and to vm Jett. but Booth aud bU Ingarlorbouoiy-Jaoipert. SeereUry Stautoo tele- afeompitc*. wero ..ot to be fuuud. "... ' When it;* buildins wat turrounded and every are- lT . oomot*^— Wathlngionvi-..wl-—„„ graphed tact* two ottcm to BOdo| ^,4^,^ u,uU v^,, ,„-„,,, '„ „„ Immediacy. They arrived la Wail.'.rwtoa the ball ^ioor with the butt of hit pistol. Tne mother terrible deed wat jad daughterdaaehter toon appearedajt-ared with the light and In moreltwmorning ofot.tbe.the third day after the J»J . farmed there wat on* . . ' , 1 . them thaithat no one m the bout* axex . ? ^T« , \ Vj i the.1..v. co-str^-,.,..-.._i-i. tcoured U i fosuultted. Cavalry had f «j. : ,,, r » oa acd a friend of hit. Capt. .K-tt. Lluut. •v«rvfv*rv direction for n!Utm'.lei arooalaround WMtlnstoivWaifclnstoa. acjit.4 B*k#rBaker and CotCol. CoagerCon^r recjuetttdr*gu*stttl to b«be thowuahowu to ..l.,T.»,w.fc....o*.r.n*.telena-twir* Mat overall*. linen.Itnea. fia>M>On-jkb. .to^^iT^K'iOTnT'.23SS :**!:»**,WSW£Tou^wtW*S^wl!kW all Information b*h* Maideould In rtfardregard to the gainedgalued tb* CcuCCi. CCoo»ionj*r ta:dta;d : "We knowkcow allail about you. YonYou route Boothbooth andaud bit aeeomolleet would probtb'.y piloted Booth tcr
vicinity, with or Jers to by boat to Port Tobacco aad JT&S*ltif j'co shield, we all j ^^rtaiMM* from tap the wire* and let blia know if there wat ar.y ecay. £:y :a tao Batter.'' The promise wit made. ••- - -. »•-— .-.- I T4«Jii!ui!- •! f.«t wen Lavo frightened booth hroBg'ht Point the detective found a uegro waow he tim. wtut.-. u Stttif a tew ist.et from the ferry you to Wiiihlnitou, tml who tinted that be wat positive c-..<-»ei. Bat I wi.l tnow y-a the Garrett ninte, I tlm. ' be taw Booth aud Harold, whom he knew well, ereti w:.ere l«f: Jett'i hcr>e wat a mode! anluiai. It ,1 1< r tuiur.tr* and i;«ed. Lie-.::, bnker waa firci General dis- tbe riv*r lu a tltblug boat* At tbe fearful tha: Jctt cnigst etcape Ic he got any advan- credited hit etateuent, bat on thowing him tweral tage in ttart. and two t>{ tbj s>eu were ordered to rid* r.eur tlo. and if aiuu;?te*- to llkeueetet of the attttiiu and otnera, the -colored he *>ea;
' ' •/ ..•. ' ro. id. where they had b«n n sesreni ng. and turned und II t„ll von :ti! oi-.t |! : thev the' *?-. tn. lr hoctet' head* aciutt the cuuntry loa-iurd the Knpunhennnrk. aud auout jujo tlueljed ll:e> river at I'urt Conway, Tit* hurare Iwl: g jndixl and the wen «>*hamud, .. 1 »t waa made here and ui<>tt of ,
( •' On hearing toe soot, and being at tbe time TJJJS DEATH OF J. WILKK8 BOOTH! ignorant of tie movement or intention of Booth, Capt. Doherty supposed tbat be bad shot
' hlineslf rather than surrender, when tbe offi- The I'ursuU and Discovery or the As- cers rushed into tbe barn, end by the light of Baaalna-BoBton Corbett'a Snot tbe burning building, saw Booth with tbe car- A reporter of tte New Orleans Picayune Lus bine between hi* legs, one of his crutches hav- ing dropped, and Booth in tbe act of falling luterviewed Captain Edward P. Doberty, who 1 Capt. Doberty caught bim witn commanded tbe (let act: vent that captured forward, when both arms around the body and carried bim Booth and Han eld after the assassination of »l
yuneW^of AugustSsIB.mMlbe story ^^Mof ibe surrrn- W^I^^ml, „ Wrr^m: Garrett mansion. der of Harro-'d and lbe sbooting of Booth in , # i I " Soldiers were then dispatched in different
i . .. directions for doctors, but only one, Dr. Ur l0ir8 "After Garrett bad deignated the direction quart, could l» found, be arriving about G am..
» iWr#^ i qffl WwMm tbe bouse bring • _* few to watob and tbe remain- 1 7jft! ***h,. ,,„,„ ,,,. f th .,,»,. F the time. that. BoothH^ was shot, 5 derhere." Captain Doberty then surrounded ! "» , j h tbe barn with bis men. and, going to tbe front J*'"-'!"*- 1£ *W*WmmV3!i?* !K*EffJHS' bands, when .Booth looked at thorn for an ic-
" Doberty then pawed around among bis seuti- Capt. Doberty, after wrapping tbe body of nels wbo suirounded tbe barn, when be was ' Booth in bis saddle-blauket, tewed tbe blanket informed that wb'spericg and tbe movement ' together with bis own hands, and having placed of bay had been beard from the iniide. the body on a cart which wti obtained frcm
come out, I'll set tire to tbe building and b MM.w mmm^mM b p- Ide proceeded to pile soma sravings and hsy in tbo opening and « « • f»» W Washing " i f_ t a rj'ii nfLii. L. - _n;__ :. _ . I ton,ton. wherenhtra tbetha bodyhnilv of BoothItanth andnnrt tbeIlia prisoner,nrlmn» nt Are to it. Wbile be was piling it up, ' ' a ro d w ere turn d t)Ter tb e ° partment commander to do so. Th's was at S further demonstration. "In reference to the different statements mmmm.imlm vh¥i V a the nonsense in ,, « »,» sbeereet the world, Booth. The former, after bearing tbe threat J 1 *"' ,ace Doberty knew J. ' " ' of the Utter, called rga'n for a surrender. &,, "S J? ^P* mortem examination, held on tbe 27th of A IS r» ll. A--1B 13 i.'fl.J 1 WX_ k w I to attending physician, who tad performed an 1 ' : * » ' lM*!l H I'WrlfUl fW *ifl M-i iVa» m'i laLM . 'J 1 J *T -W-T* conversation between Bootb and Barrold from BaBroicra draw your men up at 25 paces and I will come "lu tbe third place, after tbe body of Booth out.' ; was buried in a cell in the penitentiary at tbe "Capt. Doberty replied: 'J didn't come here :t Arsenal at Washington, the remains were de- to tight, but to capture you. I have 00 men a livered over to bis relatives four years later, here, and can do Ik' t upon application to President Johnson, and " In the meantime Harrold bad approached they now rest in tbe family vault near Balti- tbe door, when Capt. Doberty said to bim, more, Md., thus proving that tbe members of • Let me see your bands,' when Uarrold put Lis own family recognize tbe fact that tbe lxuh bands out tbrougu tbe door, and Capt. body lying there is tbe lest mortal remalus of ' Doberty seizing them, handed Uarrold over to .T. WOkt'S Hnotl). tbe Corporal at toe door. " While tbis conversation was going on, and as Capt. Doberty was in tbe act of taxing Uar- rold out of tbe front door, tbe barn bad been fired in tbe rear. The ilames burst suddenly forth. Bootb. who had loft bis pobition in tbe barn to the right of the opeuiug referred to above, near tbe candle, took a position in tbe canter of tbe barn facing the door, and rais- ing bis carbine, pointed ft in the direction of Harrold and Capt. Doberty, when Sergt. Cor- bett, wbo was stationed at one cf tbe oponings in the barn to the left of Bootb, observing the movement, leveled a large-sized Colt's revolver at Bootb and tired, Intending to bit bim in tbe arm for tbe purpose of disabling bim, but tbe ball entered his neck, about one inch from the ssme point that Booth shot President Lincoln. J ' :" j Jnttat ua ceased speaking, Col. Cougar applied a About thin time Col. Concur eauio into the hall. and In an Instant tie inside of the buildlug wat a ffl j i fow^^ barn Garrett laid: " I have forgotten lha key, Imt y brother bat It, who It tlteplng In the eoru-enb * would not let those meu ilctp In the house, am wsre afraid thev wonld ileal oar hornet nud get teeming intention of shooting the mau who touched iwiy," Tli* brother ioou appeared with tho key the match. But the Interne Unlit inaido the Luildin; snJ delivered It to Llout. Bnker. The barn him teeiug objects in the darknes- then turrounded, and l.lsut. Baker unlocked prevented from l.il without. He then turned, and with the aid of on. ibu door. Cp to iblt t.mo lioutli and Hai.il crutch came rapidly In the direction of the door, bu' itemed to bo asleep. Col. Concur came n;>, and a hailed about the centre of the floor. Here he drsv nulling was heard lutld* the building Ht if the in. Kites «*r« rousing up from sloop. Lieut, linker uld to Conger, "Garrett must go in, demand their looked Brit at the roaring names, and then his alar. lurreudtr, and brine out ihoir urras." To this Con- Ing eye* rotted on the open door. Ho resembled ai fer atsoutod, but (inrreit tens, reluctant to obey, itjriag. " They are desperate fellows,, and armed to the teeth." Lieut, linker kiogod him. opened tho iloor, thuved him iu. nud then closed tho donr. Tho mmmiMmmm -tandtn* In an arch of Are nud intake. He remained. Lieutenant bailed tho assassin* nud Mid : "Wo tend ..,'„ ,.„,,,,,., inn In n,hA»,.|ut,„lvw l . f ii.l vnil mi, I v.1.1 mutt tnrrender your arm* to him. or »u ah lm\ IfflWH 1OTMEB J nfn pistol wai beard from tho rear of the barn. building, and Booth was beard to lay to liarreit I Bootr. reeled forward, threw up one hand, dropped •'.') nyott! you have betvajed We; got, out of hit carbine, end fell face downward noma hay here, or I will thoot von." on teattered tho floor. Garten came back to tho door uud laid: "Let mo which wat ou Lieut, linker runnel in, followed by Col- Conger out, Captain. I will do anything for you, but I can't and young (larrett. Lieutenant, not rliitmy life here." Tho door wat opened. 'Jarre tl The knowing came out with a bound, uud the door wat agaiu bow fatal trie shot, seitod hlujr.bv the arms, Intending to secure iiini in case ha bad only been stunned. closed. Lieut. Uakerbnd the light lu hit hand, and On younr Garrett laid: "If you don't put out that light turning Booth over, Lieut. linker found a pistol in bit left band, which, he still hold vh-e-liko he will tboot every one of you." The light wat with a it required great strength to itfroui visited at a short dittam e from thu door, but to as to Crip, and wrencn him. A leathern belt wai around hit body, wall a light the whole front of tho building, which had 1 ten bowie knife mid anotuer revolver It. Lieut. Bauer I'tce ntad at a tobacco-house. The light was uecct- m Col. Conger of shooting •try ia eato the assassins should mike a break then accused him, which iho Colouol deuieJ. una »«hl •• Booth lor the door and get out. Tin- soldiers were dis- that himself. nmunied, but refused to stand In lha light, This, tbo i.ieuUnntit claimed, wat impossible, at he and they were allowed to ieek a infer pn«U taw him every wuunut from iho lime the hay was fired until Ml. Co). taid "tho lain. Lieut, linker again demanded that surrender. bo Conger man who Booth replied, in n elenr, ringing tone, '• Captain, did thoot Dim thai! go back to Washington under arrest." L'pon further inquiry it was " this man." Lieut, linker sail. Bring out tho arnv found that >orgt. Bottou Corbet t fired ihe shot, from " sod you enu eorae." lie replied, 1 biivo no arms..' u navy revolver. Hi rough a crevice iu the Tear of the Tbt Lieutenant taid. " Vnu have n cut-blue and pit burn. To t whs a mo»t uiflicull feut to perform, for out." >ilf tul ; bring then) out and wo will let you Bo the ball struck Bootli or. ;iie side of the uei-k. a Ut- men tahl, "lio hut no arms; they are mine, and L ile baek of tho centre, mid passed on'livly iiirongh, issil keep them." breaking the spinal eolnniu. Tho lire wiit making While this parleying wai going on, Col. Concot tu.'U p.' ogress that llnoth was taken out nf tho butld- arouse, 1 w-sdoiuc ull in hit power to keep tho men ing .:il-l carried n .hort dl-tnneo and place I under II t.nJ on tho alurt for ihey hud become so ejhaivftej trie lie began to show slgm of life. Water was with their ride of two days and two nights, without. dashed iu his face, and a iinlu pjure.l iu h* mouth. J rest and with but ouu um!, thai it was niuiosttV JI'$ Ups beg'.u to move, tmd bo faintly whl»;>or< S'.ii " Impossible to keep them awake ' .''ell mother— toll mother. " He sepuied to gain orders were given rot to lire, as tl': further strength, and then iu a more distllici. video would Jiv.-> of lit.) >"' u kiitd • endanger the : Tell mother 1 died for my couulry." who were surrounding the building. Harold bfte;.!i 1 1'av broisklus, was and train 1 thu heat 1 < - '. itUemrealod li. the moat ;i:ieouj uiaut.ei to be - the buiuiug bum was 10 lulelltu that s out, and the i/eutenaut ordered him to put !: ^ the wounded ui.vt was removed to the LinJtftutor tu» dooi, whim was piriU- njir. I » ' plnzji of the bonne. .-Viri yuuijg ladira brought ou| a jtunk hi) lintids out, tno l.;c;.lena:.t pnught !.<>'d ' narrow stra.T bod, and fin tuis Booth was placed. A. l closed ll I 'MM, Jijllod him out, ur.,1 iiuiiieiilntely 1 iotu soaked in he- water nnd whisky was placed iu door. Harold was mruei'. over I" tivo soldiers. I " his iiiii'Jtu, which revived him. He opened Jlis eyes, s«i>t making a- tevtlpns that ho knew uothlpr »bo t t socmel 10 inke In the situation at once, nud said tie nr Booth, and Col. Conger thrva.teued to him d "Kill me! Oh. kill tr.e i,ul ok I'' Tim Lieutenant gig him if bo did u.it nop his noise. This had said. " No, llootii, we did nit want to kill you. and iialetiug efi'cct. I it to llio t! o it bad o. decided ho'r 1 After a lie : 1 litis a hard a.- uiius- suid "Captain, polnttng upward, mid : "Mod A lpi!g|ily ordered me I r swoar. Ciivo a luoic man a cVanqft, 1'r.m itpyS to thoot." At this reply the < o.ynvl meihn I uli'. >"• r mm yo yurdt fioia the door and will .' hit nimi".er, nnd said: "1 gue.-> he n'-ui \' ' W'.olo rot, io.i . comuiaiul." Tae Liea'.enaut rv:;d then dropped tae subject- I u|. Couier la'--. <• « v- v > • '* Cid not come 10 feht. but e^tmi to "" ' iiniilodinteiy tlnrli-d tor \i"-" : 7<"\. and you had i-etior turretidor.' - i-p'into t'o nuthoritirt of ih,,i!iu ...... it i • t» rj 11 lit o ,. :iv n>c he l.Srul. linker and Iho «scor: rtmaircd tuSr.cgt !nvo :' i..-> -. '"J. "Very well, la'.e tliic V 1 i-.in body as nooti nt life Was 1 s»:uet. A U'.g'i , • •'.• i- >' )'.•> ti. ; ' 1 •'» s.iuuUs." wr.s'.vr.r.', I., c.n.19 low. :d phi ilelnii "as cnllc..!. who gave it "* fl'l - 't I. •>. •' MF Rene Ilia do..-. .'.- );• cniiii he ' lin.uii could not turvive uri'li longer. I :— ') "CipUiu, 1 believe }..i r.e an J-.oin r.C' • started fur Wnshiugioti a little i.fier .n:, '-'' !j.»v . •! ij-l .- t:f ' led bravo mau. I ! .,.1 jialf i*og»in opp lioulh died about l.'i tr.it.ates tit r j' ' -, U'liet to shoot > ou, nui yr.ve a fn'hd drawn o'a y< 1 body watto'-.ed up in a t.t ii.le b ..'..k-'t. po.-'i » 1 s ; tow, butdou't wit'a to do ' V> ...druw y nr iu.c r.no-hor.e tvngoti, drlv -s by » i . " •' • l* ;'|' •' ['',' t, hauured yard • from the «.o,.i. aid 1 w.Heom. • ' neon tU'e eountiy 10 Beile Plain w -'re 1 '".1 v '•;»• nis a ehMice f-r my lito, 1 atitatn. fui I w : : arrived ubr.ul lisiK. 'i'! e rag .-;. " ,''•,..*, |"' >.'..! "'.'• -i ' . .. -t. t» utieu alive." i.,euv. t r j In dj put on board, and sh«. the 1 J ' '< " ," "»».ted long enough. Kuwcouie «|, or .villi', for Vi'ashli.glon. The en; d ».« .''iT 1 '.'•• c.r.d 1. tuetirn.' Col Coagor th.r. >a. I 'V\'. ., •r r.avlighi In Ihe morning, [*"T tr» " to this l.letit. ihiker^sv ;.. • the barn ; and ; "'•• •• MDt Booth itti-l, iu hi. Muitur flage : u.v '»/ efave boyj, J.repuro » stre'.chvr for :.-•, 1.0' After a pause of nbo^t haif a in n:.t.< ho was h r •'•': ' •'( • i- -' tetiv, r.o IC -re t v:i 1 r. t J CAPTAIN STEPHEN D. FRANKLIN ..£f'-.X -*- Mi* i. rtfltfiiii i atai •« — arsenals and navy yards during '64 and id been in the papers a great deal, and '65. This work he carried through in I knew that some of the Southerners brilliant fashion, and assisted in the res- along my lino had heard of him. I'm rill %mu toration of millions of dollars to the MoGraw, I said to myself, but if I had Government which had been niched by known the trouble this would make for dishonest contractors. me, I wouldn't have been so pleased with CALLED FOR THE PURSUIT. myself. The adventures which nearly resulted "In the afternoon I saw an old man in the capture and death of Captain butchering near the read, and I rode up gray Franklin as a fellow-conspirator with to him. An old coat was hanging Captain S. D. Franklin for the tree near by, and I knew that I Booth because of his too-successful dis- on a must have 'that coat. After talking with First Time Tells the Com- guise as a Rebel worker, and his pursuit by a squad of cavalry while he was the butcher and sounding him, I said, plete Story of His Pursuit of after the assassins of tho President, be- 'I'm going down into God's country, and gan on the night of April 15, 1SC5, the I want to get away from these Yanks Lifliittin's Assassin to the day after the fatal bullet had been fired as quickly as posslble.I'll trade coats with in Ford's Tneatre. Potomac—Services for Which you and give you $5 to boot.' I didn't The stirring tale is best told in the ! give him time to think it over, but took the Secretary of War Thanked words of Captain Franklin as he recalled the gray coat, threw him my black one the incidents to "The Press" writer. and a $5 note, and went on looking more Him. | "I was routed out of bed at 11 o'clock like the redoubtable McGraw than ever. on Saturday night, 15," j | April said he, "in 1 rny house at 4129 Chestnut Street, by I wished afterward that I had examined In a recent Issue of the "Sunday Press" Captain | Thomas Sampson and Charles this gray coat more carefully. But that's a correspondent told the story of his ride De\ oe, a New York detective. They getting ahead of my story. , -•.. h/>~-rtr ! i c-nrr- tiie rouic ' Uiro'ugh rushed into rtr — my room, shouted 'The Presi- "General Augur had told me to hunt up Virginia, followed by J. dent is dead,' and Maryland and showed me orders a man named Roby, who kept a store from the Secretary of Wilkes Booth in his flight after the j War to report in near Surrattsville. On arriving at Roby's Washington at once. We caught the assasinatlon of Abraham Lincoln. The I sent Smooth on to Surrattsville, as he midnight train and reached ; there subject Is so rich In new and valuable in the was k.,{»wn there; in fact, he lived three early morning. As I walktd up Penn- material that much had to be left un- miles e^st of Surrattsville. I rode up then sylvania Avenue the people seemed the limits of one article. at dusk and hailed the house. Out came a said within dumb and awestruck, every man looking ' tremendous man, weighing about 300 The story which will now be told is pub- at his neighbor with fear on his face. nounds, with lonr; gray hair down over lished for the first time, and in thrilling It impressed me beyond the power of his shoulders. He held a double bar- words to tell. We went to interest, romantlo color and historical the Kirkwood reled shotgun, and as he asked "Will House, where President worth, has not been equalled in the Andrew John- you light?" K heard the click-click as son was then stopping, and voluminous chronicles which have been while getting the hammers were cocked. "Hardly, ready for breakfast there was a knock made of those harrowing' days. under the circumstances," said I. I at the room door. A sergeant of the rode closer and leaned over to whisper The man who in reality led the pur- Marine Corps came in and said: 'Captain from General Auger." The old suit of Booth, who did far more toward Franklin here? Compliments of General "I'm man dropped his gun, grasped my hand the capture of the fleeing- assassin than Auger, commander of the Department of and hauled me into the house. Old Roby all the rest of the legion of pursuers Washington. He desires to see you at ; once.' grabbed me by the hand and really pull- sent is out by the Government, Captain ed me 1 nthe house, and said; "If you're "I went to the office of General Stephen D. Franklin, of 2S North Fifth Auger a friend of General Augur's, I want you and was received very cordially. He sit right in that chair. That's Street, the veteran detective who still said: to down the chair General Jackson sot in when follows his adventurous calling actively " 'Captain, I'm pleased to know you. he was President of the United States." and successfully. Captain Franklin's You stand well in Washington. j You are was a hardshellBaptlst.and a big-heart- the He wonderful story is proved in every detail man I want. I wish to tell you man, but he swore with every breath, about ed by the records; of the War Departm Wit, the case. We have received in- cursing the "secesh," "the reptiles," "the formation that and by documents in his possession, these men who were in varmints," and what not. He stopped the assassination plot crossed the which Include the thanks of the W.' Navy swearing at the Southern cause Just Yard Bridge and have gone down through Department, acknowledging "the service4 long enough to pronounce a blessing lower Maryland. One is riding a pig : at eupper that wa3 as long as his table. rendered in the pursuit of the assassin roan horse, the other a little bay mare. Then he broke out again. He knew of our late beloved President," addressed This is one of the worst sections in the nothing, and only had suspicions about country. It is filled with i to Captain S. D. Franklin, Twentieth fugitives .from the people around him. "Couldn't trust everywhere, and with a desperate PenneylvanTaTSvatry: lot of sarpint among them." characters. At the a The orders of General Hancock re- last election for the "As we walled toward the store after Presidency, a man who voted for called Captain Franklin from following Lin- supper " oby saw two fellows run out coln was shot dead by a neighbor." and towa rd the tavern at full tilt. They the trail across the Potomac Into Vir- General Auger painted the dangers very had seen me and were bent on putting ginia, when he was on the point cf run- black, and then said: "Now win you go?' the innkeeper and the crowd of loafers ning down Booth and Kerold, and he He offered me a guide and mount, and on their guard. "Catch those scoun- therefore received large asked I no share of the me whether wanted any arms. drels," yelled old Roby; and his son reward offered. But Captain Franklin 'No,' I said, to his surprise. 'They're jumped on a horse halfback and galloped armed and they'd was [he man who discovered that Booth shoot me long before I after them. He overhauled the pair and got to them if I have had stopped at the house of Dr. Mudd, to depend upon brought them back. "Bring them up in rifles and revolvers to capture Booth and and later at the residence of Captain j the loft," ordered the old gentleman. his comrades. I'll have to rely upon my ' Cox, arrested They were lugged up, locked up, and as and Thomas Jones, the ingenuity to get them." I afterward learned kept In there for blockade rummer who helped Booth "I went back to breakfast at the Kirk- two days on bread and water. Roby's across the river. Until It was f^und that wood where 'Andy' Johnson sitting was method of discipline was high-handed visited In the dining-rocm will; 'le^vy Booth had Dr. Mudd to have his a guard but effective. broken leg set, It was not known of marines all around the place. I got a splendid mount from ; A WONDERFUL BLtJFF. whether he had gone north or south—to General Auger, and started out about 11 o'clock alone with "I rode up to the tavern and gave my Canada or Richmond, and tha army of a guido who lived near Surrattsville, and horse to a hostler with a great i^wagger cavalry men and detectives was com- a miserable wretch lie tiu'ned out to be. and very emphatic language about tak- pletely at sea. As I rode along the road toward Sur- ing care of the animal. In the tavern The first clue was found at Dr. Mudd's rattsville my brain was wording busily, tho proprietor, Lloyd, stood behind the on the road from Washington to the trying to find a plan of action, for I bar, a stout, sulky fellow, who had lit- Potomac River, and the ability of Cap- know that my only hope lay i n subter- tle or nothing to say. As turned out tain Franklin set the pursuit on the right fuges and 'nerve.' afterward he was the only man In Sur- track. He was at the time of the as-^ "Mv rpla- ea mf JD...ru_l;J. an inspira- rattsville who knew anything about the tion. At that time, Ben Wood, a Auicu. sassmation a captain in the \ Twentieth flight of Booth, who had stopped at the Pennsylvania Cavalry, on detached ser- Rebel emissaiy from Mississippi was in tavern with Herold on Friday night, ' vice with the special commissioner of. the Canada with a large sum of Southern when Lloyd handed them the whisky and gold, War and Navy Department. Col. H. S. sending out men to try to release carbines that had been left there by the Confederate Olcott and Hon. W. E. Chandlier. After prisoners on the lakes Mrs. Surratt. I began to talk with tha and having been wounded in the Shenandoah destroy the shipping. One of his crowd of about ten countrymen, and right ; Valley under General Hunter Captain hand men was an Irishman nam< d askod them to have a drink. They hung MoGraw. I then I Franklin returned to Philadelphia and wore reddish side- back, and seemed afraid to be seen talk- whiskers, and looked was assigned on duty in the investiga- so Irish that you'd I ing with a stranger, which was natural have sworn I had landed from the tion of the_ .gigantic frauds in the Emer- j just then. Finally une of them said, ajd isle a week before. McGraw's name r to make a break. ' formation, I concluded I ,'. e'd kinder like to know who you are, The lunatics are Hying around with I started in air full of bullets. So ordering up my horse sabers flying and ths I if you ain't got no objections.' 'Have you ) ' course, They're after -a, man named McGraw." intelligence enough to know who I am the direction of the Potomac. Of ( mislead them and to prevent them "Well, that's funny," said I, "who the if I tell you?' I asked, with a bold front to you got anything ' me, saying I would be devil is McGraw. Have and an ugly look at the chap as I took from following likely to meet the fugitives on the other with you?" hold of his collar and pulled his ear pair of handcuffs and a pistol," side and also that I would give the "A shouted in his down to my face, and horse and equipments to the fellow who said he. | the cuffs on me. The jig's up. car, 'McGraw!' 'McGraw!' My name 1 took me over the river. "Put I'm McGraw. Handcuff me and take me is McGraw. Did you ever hear of Mc- I had an idea that Booth had gone to- to Washington and in order to draw off Graw':" Apparently none of them had, ward Marlborough, so, after ^starting the direction of the i-otomac, the cavalry." for they stood silent for a moment until out west in "The Elack Whiskers was dumfounded I turned and rode toward Marlborough, a long-haired old fellow slipped up to and perplexed. I wouldn't go tiirough which is a short distance off the road whispered, 'I've heard of you for JIU.OOO,' said my side and Surrattsvllle to Bryantown. I had Surrattsvilie with God's people, boys, from he." you. He's one of no sleep that night, reaching Marlbor- right." "The thing must be done and that's and a good one. He's all They ough in the morning where Smoot, the the end of it." He put the cuffs on me then drank with me. guide, came back and met me. after my last, we stalled back on a road up at this recom- was badly scared and told at and The crowd warmed detour. He that led around Surrattsvllle. I took the bottle of whisky very unpleasant news." mendation and I took a me some cuffs off when no one was In sight, and after you. They think you're In the next room and set up drinks a "They're looked on as a rebel patriot by there's the deuce to pay. was all around to get their in the plot and met. We came to a house couple of times the soldiers arc the people we You're McGraw, and over the rebel (la;; was flying. A ongue3 wagging, if they had anything shot which after your hellity-lamp. You'll be woman came out and said: "You're one to tell. if you're caught." t , of our own people. We won't let him fifty times, hut "I've run this blockade THE PURSUER PUKSUED. take you out of town." I told her it was : got too hot for me when the Yankees weren't smart Washington "The startling tale was too true, and all right, that to hold me, and persuaded her they shot Lincoln, and I'm going through disguise had worked entirely too enough mv to cail off thf: crowd of friends that was ! to the river to-night. My skin isn't safe As I soon found out that gray coat well. pressing round mv ca.ptor. We were tak- around Washington. I know this whole had been responsible. I had not no- j en in and fed, I cheered the "bonnio every swamp and that there was a blood stain on j country like a book, ticed blue flag" and we kept on to Wash- the sleeves, but one of the men Ihole In it, and if you'll give me those one of ington and to General Augur's office. Surrat's tavern had seen it. When men 111 put 'em where no blasted Yan- In came in and said. 'I hardly ex- had gone out to look f^r "He ces will ever find them." the crowd pected to see you so soon, Captain Frank- traces of Booth this man had rldd. n "The crowd was with me now after Washington In the lin.' hard all the way to " expected it myself,' said I, my speech and what the old man had General Auger. 'I hardly night, and had sought 'but circumstances alter cases.' told them about McGraw and they scat- He told him that I was the man who " 'Have you met with any success?' tered, took their horses-, and rode out Secretary Seward, as there '' had stabbed 'I got track of the men at Dr. through the neighborhood to see if any was blood on my clothes, and that I was 'and told him of my blockade-runner Mudd's,' I said, trace could be found of the fugitives and a well-known Rebel discovery, and that I came back to 'T. Informer was after the to put them under my guidance, to be and spy. The B.,' when I suddenly found it necessary reward and he had a strong case. Gen- report to him." to , gotten over the Potomac. While they sev enty-nve j eral Augur at once sent out " 'Did you hear of a man down there were away I ate supper, for, although to hunt down cavalrymen with orders named McGraw who is said to bo ona I already eaten at Rohy's, I I had had McGraw who was strongly suspected of of the assassins,' asked the general. object for stopping at the would-be as- to have an being Secretary Seward's " 'I believe I did. Have you a descrip- tavern. The colored girl who waited sassin." \ tion of him?' talkative, left me now scon tor good and on me was bright and and | "Smoot AN fix. Nothing located or UNFORTUNATE DOUBLE. I asked her if any officers had been all. I was in a nice Booth, and a squad of "The general tapped a bell and got around looking for Booth. found out about a cavalry alter me as the desperate villain description from the adjutant general, She said that two men had called the McGraw. I got breakfast, had my horse brought from Surrattsvilie—blood on gray day before who told her they were buy- fed, and rode on toward Bryantown, with coat sleeve, red side whiskers. I looked ' lug cattle. "But when dey wuz eatiu' the intention of stopping at the house of down and saw the blood on my coat for one of "em threw his coat back an' Dr. Mudd, whom I had heard of as a the first time, and understood the situa- prominent and active Southern sympa- tion. I stood up and asked: 'Do you think I I seen a badge on his vest. . Some of people at Surrattsvilie that looks anything like me?' Booth's letters was in the house, an' I thiser The thought that Booth and his companion " 'It's tlie very image of you,' said scared dey'd find 'em, so I put 'em j was had gone that way. General Augur. in de kitchen fire and fried de " eggs "I reached Dr. Mudd's at 10 o'clock on 'Well, I'm McGraw. The blood gav© de men had foah dinner wld 'em. H,ee! Monday morning and found Mrs. Mudd me away.' hee! dey didn't fool me.' I told her she sitting on the front steps with two chil- "'Why we sent seventy-live cavalry- was a clever girl and that she could dren I asked for the doctor and found men to catch you." I " 'Call back," I said. tell a detective as far as she could pee that he had gone to Bryantown. saw them 'We know house, where are, and sol- him. a likely-looking darky near the the two men the afked him to water ray horse as a pre- diers are in the way.' A SHAVE. " NARROW text to talk with him. Y\'hen we were 'We sent 75 more men down after you guide, watched while Smoot, my was behind the house I said: 'You look like last night," said the adjutant general. he losing his truth. In the tavern, and was a man who would tell the ' and 'We were satisfied you were the man nerve. He drank to the Southern cause, slipped him a $5 gold piece. 'Have you that cut Secretary Seward's throat.' An however, and did nothing to give me seen any strangers around here lately?' orderly was sent off to bring back the " won't tell anybody?' McGraw < pursuers, and I rested for away. When I started to leave in the 'Foh Gawd, you a 'promise dat?' I reassured few hours, my first sleep since my start evening after failing to find any clues said he, me him and ho whispered: 'There was two two days before. I reported at night, when out to see me off. several men came men here yesterday, a tail an' a short a chartered steamer filled with detectives lantern and I 1 One of them held a man. I made a crutch for one of 'em. was sent down the river and landed at saw In a flash that I was in a tight They cut his boot off, an' he cut off bis Port Tobacco, on the Information which; hole and must work quick or risk my mustache. They came out an' the doctor I had secured. The crowd went to skin. I had forgotten the brand on took dem cross In the swamp.' Bryantown on the first day and every fellow was going to catch the fugjtiv1»a.-al horse and stamp on saddle and bri- THE FIRST TRACE OP BOOTH. my once. They got horses and sta/jfted out, dle. I turned to them and said:— "This was the first trace of Booth that and all had Dr. Mudd on the brain. '. Detectives were work- "Look here, my boys, have I got any had been found. "Ten of them could not rid,', and they. to Canada &a well as. nerve?—see that 'U. S.' on my horse and ing their way up were so crippled on the second' day that everywhere toward the South. I had; saddle?— 'U. S.' all ovor him. I stole him could they couldn't walk. Some of tl oar story he said: 'Well, well. I will do anything- In my power to assist vou la catching those villains.' spent j We the night at the house. | "On our travels to Cox's we met two colored men, who stopped [ us and asked if I it was true that they had 'done killed Uncle Samuel,' and 'dey was sure no | colored mon had anything to do with it.' Captain Franklin thinks rather motirn- "In the morning- we went down to tha woods and learned that the negro. Swan, , had guided Booth and Herald to Captain Cox's. We found Swan later, and told, him that there were no marks of horses' hoofs in the front door yard. 'You ain't smart,' said he, and took ub back to tha house. He showed us where the fenca had been taken down and the horses had come in and stood In the flower bed9 without leaving a mark in the yard. I called Captain Cpx out and asked what men made those horses' tracks. Ha seemed much surprised, and I arrested him, handcuffed him, and sent him. to Bryantown without any delay." MISSED BY A HAIR. "We went out on the hunt toward the river, feeding certain that the men wera hidden near at hand. On the following- day we were about three miles from Allen's Fush in the afternoon, looking around, when we saw a soldier riding down the road covered with dust, hia horse all lather and sWeat. He pulled an order from General Hancock out of hia belt, called me back to Bryantown. I learned afterwards that Herald heard this soldier shout my name from his hiding place in the swamp, so near were we to the assassins." "On reaching Bryantown General Han- cock tcld me that he had received in- formation that Booth and Herald had been seen in the swamp near Dr. Mudd's that morning. I told him I thought this a ruse to draw our attention, and allow kthe men to cross-+fc« rtvo 17- ana Lliat trnj "men were near the Potomac. I obeyed orders, however, and was given seventy- five cavalry with directions to driva Zekiah swamp fifteen miles to the Po- tomas. I stretched the men clear across the swamp and went through it in mud and water, until the river was reached, an all day job. We reached the river tha night ai'ter Booth crossed. He went over the night I was called back to Bryan- town. We met some colored people near the river who said that 'the doss. bark- ed powerful hard at somelhin' goln* on last night on the road.' "I found a man named Jor;^ at hia ai „rrested house near Papes Creek, icj him on suspicion, and took him l'P to 'ln< Bryantown. He was verv impudent; J wr.3 the only man in Bight that looked like a blockade runner. He turned out to be the man Who had guided Booth and Herald to the river the night before and ~Tia>*^urnlshed them a boat. I found one of his blockade running boats, the bateau which had been built for use in the Lin- coin abdnciion plot, and ordered j my, I troopera to smash it. "When I reached Bryantown again, a telegram had just come to General j Kan-; 1 cock with the news that Booth had been 1 shot on the Virginia side. Tupp and J- i were within 150 yards of them in tho' swamp, when I was recalled by General! Hancock, and I am confident that if we' had remained down there that nieht, aa we planned to do, we would haves-m^ . across the party as they made their way to the Potomac." I "Captain Franklin thinks rather mourn- might have been, with re- 1 fully of what wards of $100,000 out for the capture of Booth and Herald. No one could have success than he, and his I come nearer trail of the flight I work In finding the was Invaluable to the Government. After the war, Captain Franklin was the first man appointed in the Secret Service Bu- reau of the United States Treasury, and through '65, '66 and 'C7 he did more in breaking up counterfeiting operational \ j than any other officer before or since hinj time. He ran down and captured tha biggest operators that have ever worked; in 'this country. He has since been (ja-J gaged in detective work. . Washington. A few miles along the seemed that Booth, in spite of his road a wheel of the ambulance fractured ankle, caused by his fall broke down.' A farm wagon was in jumping from the President's obtained in the neighborhood, and box to the stage of Ford's theater, that night the party, with Booth which fall was caused by one of his dead and Herold a prisoner, crossed spurs catching in the flag which the Rappahannock river on the draped the President's box, had ferry between Port Royal and Port made his escape. The belief grew Conway, continued along hill roads strong that Booth had made his through Virginia and reached the way to Canada or some other coun- Potomac at the wharf, Belle Plains. try. Four Thousand The steamboat John S. lde was Troops Joined boarded. * * * Hi* Hoot Found. News of the matter had gone With some detectives, there was Twelve-Day Search. overland by man and horse to the belief that Booth was not far Washington and the government sent a lug down the river to meet from Washington. Traces of him the lde. The tug carried the body had been found in southern Mary- BOOTH SHOT IN A BARN and the prisoner up the eastern land. One boot, cut from his in- branch to the navy yard, close to the navy yard bridge. The body of jured foot and leg by Dr. Samuel ! [Washington Starl Booth was laid out on the deck- of A. Mudd on the morning after the the monitor Montauk, and Herold, John Wilkes Booth, murder, had been found in Dr. assassin of in double irons, was put in the hold. Mudd's house, sixteen miles south- President Lincoln, was shot and Soon after this Surgeon-General east of Washington, in Charjes killed near Bowling Green. Va.. the Barnes, ol the army, and other army surgeons held an autopsy on Booth's county, Maryland. morning of April 26,^1865, twelve A lame man and body, removing parts of the shat- a companion, whom the detectives days after the shooting of Abraham tered vertebra; near the base of the believed to be Booth and Dave Her- Lincoln. skull. These bones were long an old, had been seen by several men. exhibit in the army medical m«- But the trail for a long time ended Bowling Green, a hamlet, is the ssum which w is instVdid in lords with the finding of the boot. The county seat of Caroline county, Vir- j theater building after the war. country around Dr. Mudd's, includ- i ginia. ,It is twenty miles south of ing Zakiah swamp, had been gone ! I' federicksburg and two miles east Iturial Penitentinrj of the Washington-Richmond through, the detectives thought, rail- loot foot. road. It is twenty-five Booth's body, after satisfactory by miles south- suspicion west of the point where autopsy, was The first of those who Booth and identification and the knew Booth and Herold that his companion, David Herald, was taken from the Montauk and car- they bad ridden out of Washington crossed the Potomac river from Maryland to Virginia. ried by boat to the penitentiary, after the murder on Good Friday night, 1S65, and had gone to lower The place where Booth -was shot which stood in the arsenal grounds, Maryland. The country lay between and where he died was the farm of now occupied by the War College. Ri chard H. Washington and Chesapeake bay, GarreU, a few miles put from Bowling Green. Booth The body was in a pine box, the Potomac and Patuxent rivers, was said to have been a gun box, a or tele- shot in the tobacco barn on Gar- long and was without a railroad box in which rifles were shipped. line. Booth had visited a rett's farm at 5 o'clock in the morn- graph The stone, floor ot a cell on the of places in that region. ing and died on the porch of the number ground floor was taken up and a The chief of Washington police, Garrett farmhouse at 7. The shot grave dug. Booth was buried there. Richards, told the mili- was fired from a cavalry carbine by Major A C. In February, lbti:i, Edwin Booth ob- tary authorities he believed Booth Sergeant Boston Corbett of a de- tained from President Andrew tachment of had gone to southern Maryland, but twenty-five men from Johnson a permit for the removal it was twelve hours after the crime the 1 tit h New York cavalry, the de- of his brother's remains, and in that detectives and cavalry were tachment being commanded by .March of that year the bones Were Lieutenant Edward Doherty. The sent that way. By sunset of Satur- removed to the Booth burial lot in day after the murder, 2,000 bullet struck Booth at the 'base of Baltimore. day, the Greenmount cemetery, troops, mainly cavalry, were scour- the skull. For ten days after the assassina- ing the fields, woods, pines and tion. April 11, 1S65, the whereabouts Uentovnl of Body. marshes in th.it part of the country. of Booth perplexed the government. When Booth was pronounced dead It was a mystery to all except per- Cavalry Pntroleil Roads. men. Ms body was sewed in haps half a dozen Maryland the army and Virginia were searched almost When Lincoln was shot' during blanket of a trooper and roped to a house by house. Hundreds of per- performance of "Our American plank. No wagon could be had on soldiers sons, whom detectives and Cousin" by Laura Keen and her the Garrett farm, but a little way thought, might know something of off lived a Negro, Edward Freeman, the fugitive, were arrested and company at Ford's the 16th New v I wned a condemned army am- taken to prison, the old Capitol York cavalry was in camp at bulance which hu was using as a Prison. Vienna, Va., fourteen miles west of farm ivagon. Booth's body was put Booth clues by the thousand were Washington. Saturday it was or- tn lllis and the start was made foi picked up and found false. It dered to patrol roads and scout in t part of Virginia with the hope a rickety structure with many at a revival and made a "new man" sional reward $2,545. That was all f picking- up the assassin and his cracks between the warped boards. in that city. In the 16th New York that went to Corbett, and It was coomplices. A match was touched to this hay. cavalry he gave a good deal of time stolen from him soon after he got it. Later, a detachment of that regi- Some say Col. Conger started the to religious exhortation. ent, under Lieutenant Edward Do- fire and others that it was done by States and cities offered rewards erty, was ordered on the man hunt the civilian detectives. The interior for the capture of Lincoln's murder- i southern Maryland. Sergeant of the barn was soon bright and red. ers, congress offered a reward of orbett was of that detachment. Inside through the cracks could be $75,000. For one reason or another Doherty and his men were put seen a man standing, resting on a all offers of reward were withdrawn nder command of Lieutenant L. B. crutch and with a carbine in his except that authorized by congress. alter and the direction of the ex- hand. A shot was fired and the man Corbett believed that all these re- edition was given to Colonel Ever- on the crutch dropped to the barn wards should have come to him. floor. iii J. Conger. The troops went on There were two sergeants in the jard the steamboat John S. Ide at Sergeant Corbett at the back of 16th New York detail and each re- "ashington and left the boat about the barn, the side opposite the door ceived as his share of the congres- the officers stood, >rty miles below Washington, at around which saw this with the carbine, thought little wharf called Belle Plains, man he was about to shoot at the offi- i Stafford county, Virginia. The detachment struck across cers, and shot him. The bullet struck Booth at the base of the iuntry toward t lie Rappahannock skull. Officers and soldiers rushed ver, reaching it at the ferry be- Port Royal. in the burning barn and dragged out veen Port Conway and for lay the ferry- Booth and some moments he rom William Rollins, on the grass before the burning his wife it was learned an, and barn. Then he was taken to the lat a cripple and companion had and had porch of the Garrett house and a -ossed a few hours before physician sent for. one in the direction of Bowling reen, Caroline county. The detec- Last Words Disputed. ves accompanying the troops had photograph of Booth, and the There is disagreement as to what Try man said it was a picture of Booth's last words were. Doherty le cripple. said that Booth uttered no intelligi- it was learned At Bowling Green ble words except "Hands! Hands!" lie two men had gone in the di- ction of Garrett's farm. A guide and "Useless! Useless!" Doberty 1 the way and the troops come to said that when Booth said faintly, e farm of Richard H. Garrett just "Hands! Hands!" he thought Booth efore dawn of April 26. The place wanted him to lift as surrounded. Garrett said he his hands, and, ad seen no strangers on the place, when he did this, Booth said, "Use- ut his son, Jack Garrett, said two less! Useless!" cripple, had gone in the len, one a Corbett had fired without orders. obacco barn, about 200 yards from he house, to sleep, and he thought He was charged with firing contrary hey were still there. to orders. It was desired to take Barn surrounded. Booth alive. But the fact that Cor- bett believed that Booth was barn surrounded. The about The was to fire at the officers was a cir- fficers, some men say it was Col. cumstance that favored him. Cor- onger, others that it was Lieut. bett had been thought "sort of a queer fellow" by others in the regi- alcer and others that it was Lieut. ment, but he was considered a tood oherty, calleu on the men inside to soldier. urrender. There was no response, After the killing of Booth, Cor- ut whispering was heard. The offi- bett's mind seemed to grow weak r speaking threatened to set fire and he seemed to be overcome with > the barn, and then Booth is said fear of "Booth avengers." He went have made the request that the to Kansas and was sent to the .Kan- ldiers be withdrawn twenty-five sas Insane Asylum. He escaped from ces and give him a chance for his that place in 1888. The last man re- fe. Booth's companion wanted to ported to have seen Corbett was a urrender. He thrust his hands farmer near Neodesha, in southern Lrough the barn door, was seized Kansas. nd pulled out. at was a youth who Corbett was an Englishman, nat- roved to be Dave Herold, and he uralized an American. He had been ied on the scaffold in the arsenal a hatter by trade in New York, Cam- rounds the following August with den, N. J., and Boston. He enlisted Irs. Surratt, Payne and Atzrodt. as Boston Corbett, but there was a looth would not surrender. There story that he chose the name "Bos- /as hay in one corner of the barn, ton" because he had been converted "L.lT.t. — suit of Booth Soon alter this Surg. uen. .Barnes 'Two horsemen, 10 minutes apart, WILKES BOOTH, assassin of the Army and other Army surgeons had been halted by the guard—Sergt. shot JU-tlNof President Lincoln, was held an autopsy on Booth's body, re- Silas T. Cobb—at the Navy Yard and killed near Bowling Green, moving parts of the shattered verte- Bridge over the Eastern Branch, and April -b, Va in the morning of brae near the base of the skull. These had been allowed to pass on saying 1865 twelve days after the shoot- bones were long an exhibit in the that they were returning to their Bowling of Abraham Lincoln. Army Medical Museum, which was in- homes in Charles County, Md. The ing Caro- Green, a hamlet, is the seat of stalled in Ford's Theater building after war being over, the restrictions on miles south private line County, Va. It is 20 the war. They were long a passing the bridges at Washington Fredericksburg and 2 miles east exhibit in the same museum in its were relaxed. The chief of Washing- of Washington Of the railroad track from new building near the Smithsonian, ton police—Maj. A. C. Richards—told Fredericksburg. to Richmond, through and they may be there now. the military authorities that he be- point where It Is 25 southwest of the * * * * lieved Booth had gone to southern companion, David Maryland, but it was 12 hours after Booth and his body, after satisfactory crossed the Potomac River BOOTH'S the crime that detectives and Cavalry iHerold, identification and the autopsy, Maryland to Virginia. Ihe place were sent that way. By sunset of from from the Montauk and car- Booth was shot and where he was taken Saturday—the day after the murder xvnere by boat to the penitentiary, was the farm oLJiuJiarO-iR-la^Ui ried 2,000 troops, mainly Cavalry, were Uied which stood in the Arsenal grounds, miles from Bowling Green. scouring the fields, woods, pines and ,rett a few occupied by the War College. shot in the tobacco barn now marshes in that part of the country. Booth was put in a pine box—said at 5 a.m. and died The body was on Garrett's farm •f t* T* T farmhouse lo have been a gun box, a long bn the porch of the Garrett from a box in which rifles were shipped. The Y\7HEN Lincoln was shot during 7 a.m. The shot was fired ft! of a cell on the ground by Sergt. Boston Cor- stone floor "* performance of "Our American cavalry carbine a grave dug. of 25 men from floor was taken up and Cousin" by Laura Keen and her com- bett of a detachment February, Cavalry, the de- Booth was buried there. In pany at Ford's the 16th New York the 10th New York obtained from commanded by Lieut. 1869, Edwin Booth Cavalry was in camp at Vienna, Va., tachment being Andrew Johnson a permit Edward Doherty. The bullet struck President 14 miles west of Washington. On Sat- for the removal of his brother's re- the base of his skull. urday it was ordered to patrol roads Booth at March of that year the wrote a mains, and in and scout in that part of Virginia J B. Jaques of Washington removed to the Booth ago, bones were with the hope of picking up the as- letter to The Star a few days of sassin and his accomplices. Later, a saying: "On page 40 of the program carnival held at in Greenmount Cemetery, detachment of that regiment, under the recent military i burial lot city is to be Lieut. Edward Doherty, was ordered the War College in this Baltimore. . more of this in southern Mary- found the following: 'Booth, with the Let me tell vou a little on the man-hunt but after the assassi- Corbett was of that de- other assassins, made his escape, story For 10 days land. Sergt. except 1805, the whereabouts tachment. About 10 days after the were all soon captured (all nation April 14, Government. O'Beirn, in Booth, who was killed in Maryland) I of Booth perplexed the murder Maj. James R. the all except perhaps the Booth have a vivid recollection of reading It was a mystery to charge of detectives in and \ lr- been published accounts of the tragedy im- half a dozen men. Maryland hunt, reported that Booth had almost house by Va., mediately after its occurrence, which ginia were searched seen in King George County, Booth was shot in a barn house Hundreds of persons whom de- across the Potomac River from Btated that might a farm, known as the Garrett tectives and soldiers thought Charles County. It was on April 24, on fugitive were in Virginia. In the over 62 years know something of the 1865, that Col. Lafayette C- Baker, farm prison—the Old that have passed, I have never heard arrested and taken to provost marshal of the War Depart- Booth clues by the with of those accounts being disputed." Capitol Prison. ment, talked this report over Booth was pronounced dead thousand were picked up and found Gen. Hancock, and the latter directed When spite body was sewed in an Army false. It seemed that Booth, in Gen. Sweitzer to have a detail of 25 bis caused by his blanket of a trooper and roped to a of his fractured ankle, the President's mounted men, "under a discreet of- plank. No wagon could be had on tall in jumping from way of Ford's Theater, ficer," report, with three days' ra- the Garrett farm, but a little box to the stage Edward caused by one of his tions, to Gen. Baker. Doherty's de- off lived a colored man— which fall was who owned a condemned spurs catching in the flag which tachment, being close to Washington, Freeman— had made was called on. Army ambuiance which lie was using draped the President's box, had belief grew strong Doherty and his men were put un- es a farm wagon. The ambulance his escape. The was his way to Can- der command of Lieut. L. B. Baker nerved in the war. Booth's body that Booth had made made lor other country. and the direction of the expedition put In this and the start was ada or some there was the Col. Everton J. Conger. Washington. A few miles along the With some detectives was given to broke Booth was not far from The troops went on board the steam- road a wheel of. the ambulance belief that of him had been at Washington and down. A farm wagon was taken in Washington. Traces boat John S. Ide | One below neighborhood, and that evening found in southern Maryland. left the- boat about 40 miles the foot and Booth dead and Herold boot, cut from his injured Washington, at a little wharf called the party, with on the crossed the Rappahannock leg by Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Belle Plains, in Stafford County, Va. r prisoner, murder, had been River on the ferry between Port Royal morning after the The detachment struck cross-country along in Dr. Mudd's house, 10 miles I and Port Conway, continued found I toward the Rappahannock River, reach- of Washington, in Charles roads through Virginia and southeast reaching it at the ferry between Port hill lame man and a com- ed the Potomac at the wharf, Belle County, Md. A Conway and Port Royal. From Wil- the detectives believed Plains. The steamboat John b. Re panion, whom liam Rollins, the ferryman, and his to be Booth and Dave Herold, had was boarded. wife it was learned that a cripple been seen by several men. But the of the matter had gone over- and companion had crossed a few News trail for a long time ended with the to "\\ ashington hours before and had gone in the di- land by man and horse boot. The country tug down finding of the rection of Bowling Green, Caroline end the Government sent a including Zakiah The meet- around Dr. Mudd's, County. The detectives accompany- the river to meet the Ide. been gone through, the Alexandria, and the Swamp, had ing took place off foot by foot. Froops had a photograph of were transferred detectives thought, , ing the corpse and prisoner knew Booth, anil the ferryman said it was The tug carried the body The first suspicion of those who to the tug. that they had a picture of the cripple. prisoner up the Eastern Booth and Herold was and the the it was learned yard, close to the ridden out of Washington after At Bowling Green Branch to the navy gone in the di- of Booth murder on Good Friday night, 1805, that the two men had Navy Yard Bridge. The body guide led the mon- and had gone to lower Maryland. rection of Garrett's farm. A was laid out on the deck of to the double country lay between Washington the way and the troops came itor Montauk, and Herold, in The before and Chesapeake Bay. the Potomac and farm of Richard II. Garrett just Irons, was put in the hold. was sur- _ Patuxent Rivers, and was without a dawn of April 26. The ph.ee said he had railroad or teleeraDh line. Booth had rounded. Faraier Garrett the place, but his visited a number of places in that seen no strangers on that two men, region. son Jack Garrett, said one a cripple, had gone in the tobacco me tension Uince, but when inquiry barn, about 200 yards from the house, was made about this matter a num- to sleep, and lie thought they were ber of years ago the information was st;ll there. that no notification had been received The barn was surrounded. The offi- from any person who knew Corbett. cers —some men say it was Col. Con- Ho was marked "dead" from lapse of ger, others that it was Lieut. Baker, time and non-receipt of his pension. and others that it was Lieut. Doherty Corbett was an Englishman, natural- called on the — men inside to surren- ized an American. He had been a der. There was no response', but hatter by trade in New York, Camden, whispering heard. was The officer N. J., and Boston/ Ho enlisted as speaking fhreatened ; to et fire to the Boston Corbett, but there was a story Darn, and then Booth is said to have that he chose the name "Boston" be- made the request that the soldiers be cause he had been converted at a re- withdrawn 25 paces and give him a vival and made a "new man" in that chance for his lire. Booth's com- city. In the 16th New York Cavalry panion wanted to surrender. He he gave a good deal of time to re- thrust his hands through the barn ligious exhortation. door, was seized and pulled out. It States and cities offered rewards for was a youth who proved to be Dave the capture of Lincoln's murderers. Herold, and hj died on a scaffold in Congress offered a reward of $75,000. th? arsenal grounds in the following For one reason or another all offers of August with Mrs. Surratt, Payne and reward were withdrawn except that Atzerodt. Booth would not surrender. authorized by Congress. Corbett be- There was hay in one corner of the lieved that all these rewards should barn, a rickety structure with many have come to him. There were two cracks between the warped boards. A sergeants in the 16th New York detail match was touched to this hay. .Some and each received as his share of the say Col. Conger started the fire and congressional reward $2,545. That others that it was done by the civilian was all that went to Corbett. and it detectives. The interior of the barn was stolen from him soon after he got was soon bright and red. Inside it. On his discha rge he resumed his through the cracks could be seen a man standing, resting on a crutch and trade of hatter in Camden, N. J., and with a carbine in his hand. A shot engaged in religious preaching in the was fired and I the man on the crutch ! streets. Next he moved to Cloud dropped to the barn floor. I County, Kans., and practiced farming. Sergt. Corbett at of the back the , In the 80s he was appointed an assist- barn—the side opposite the door ant doorkeeper of the Kansas House I around which the officers stood—saw of Representatives, and during the I this man with the carbine, thought he i session of the Legislature in 1887 he was about to shoot at the officers, and entered the Capitol with drawn pistol shot him. The bullet struck Booth and stampeded many people. He was at the base of the skull. Officers and captured and disarmed. This was the soldiers rushed in the burning barn reason he was sent to the Kansas In- and dragged out Booth and for some sane Asylum. moments he lay on the grass before Booth and Herold reached Dr. Sam- the burning barn. Then he was taken j uel Mudd's house early in the morning to the porch of the Garrett house I and alter the murder. Booth told Dr. ! a physician sent for. The doctor said Mudd that his horse had thrown him, ] the wound was mortal and at 7 o'clock and the doctor set the bones in Booth's that morning Booth was dead. ankle and provided him with a crutch. There is disagreement as to what The fugitives stayed at Dr. Mudd's Booth's last words were. Doherty several hours and were there when he said that Booth uttered no intelligible started to visit at Bryantown, 3 or 4 words except "Hands! hands!" and miles away. There (on Saturday after- "Useless! useless!" Doherty said that noon) Dr. Mudd learned of the murder when Booth said faintly, "Hands! of the President. started He homi . hands!" he thought Booth wanted him and reaching there found that the two to lift his hands, and when he did this, strangers had ridden away. Dr. Mudd Booth said, "Useless! useless!" was sentenced to confinement on Drv Corbett had fired without orders. Tortugas. After several years lie re- He was charged with firing contrary turned to his home near Bryantown to orders. It was desired to take and died there. In the hall for many Booth alive. But the fact that Corbett years was a shabby sofa, the one on believed that Booth was about to fire which Booth lay while Dr. Mudd set at the officers was a circumstance that and dressed the fractured ankle. favored him. Corbett had been After leaving Dr. Mudd's the iugi- thought "sort of a queer fellow" br- tives became lost in Zakiuh .Swamp others in the regiment, but he was and were guided by Oswald Swann, considered a good soldier. After the colored, to Dr. Samuel Cox's place. killing of Booth Corbett's mind Rich Hill. On that farm were seemed they to grow weak and he seemed shown a thick piece of pineland. Their to be overcome with fear of "Booth horses were probably shot and sunk avengers." He went to Kansas and in quicksand, and the fugitives lay in was sent to the Kansas Insane those pines, having food brought tiiem Asylum. He escaped from that place at night by Thomas A. Jones of in 1S88. The last man reported to Huckleberry, on the Potomac. It have seen Corbett was a farmer near was Jones who furnished them with a Noodesha in southern Kansas. He boat and directed them across the Po- was traveling alone toward Mexico tomac River. Jones dictated a narra- and said he was going there. Corbett I tive of his connection with the matter was marked "dead" in the records of about ,'10 years ago and it was pub- lished in book form. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, t>. C, OCTOBER 30, 3927 : FUBTH£B PARTICULARS OF THE PUB- The detachment of the 16th New torn uavauy obtained the first news of Booth at Port Royal on There is Vferry above Port Royal, and the fer- SUIT OF TEE ASSASSINS. Tuesday evening from an old man, who stated ry man denied having ferried over any men answer- that four men in company with a rebel captain ing to the description of Booth and Harjold; but had crossed the Rappahannock a short time pre- a colored man, looking over Lieut. Baker's DESPERATION DEATH OF vious, going iu the direction of Bowling Green, THE AND shoulder at a photograph of Booth which he was and he added that the Captain would probably be BOOTH. showing the ferryman, exclaimed. found in that place, as he was courting a lady 'I got that man—I got that man across the there. Passing on to Bowling Green, the Captain river! He was in a wagon with three other was tound at a hotel and taken in custody. From CAPTURE OF HABEOLD. THE ACCOM- nun I" him it was ascertained that Booth and Harrold The loyal— although sable—Virginian waa right. PLICE. were at the house of John and William Garrett, It appears that Booth and Harrold bad crossed three miles back toward Port Royal, and about a Ibe Potomac in a canoe, for which they paid three quarter of a mile from the road passed over by Washington, 21th. The Star has the follow- hundred dollars, and were met oo the Virginia cavalry. ing: bbore bj two confederate officers with a two-horse In the meantime It appears that Booth and "Booih and Harrold reached Garretts some wagon Both wore gray suits without any mili- Harrold applied to Garrett for horses to ride to days ago, Booth walkiug on crutches. A. party tary insignia of rank Louisa Court House, but the latter, fearing that of lour or five accompanied them, who spoke of At Port Royal the detectives learned that one of the horses would not be returned, refused to let Booth as u wounded Mary lander on hiB way ihe Confederate officers had a sweetheart at them notwithstanding the large sums offered. home, and that they wished to leave bim there a Bowling Gnen. and bad probably gone there; so These circumstances, together with the recrimina- short lime, and would take him away by the 26th the party started iu pursuit, passing on their way tions of Booth and Harrold, each charging the [yesterday a larm where resided two brothers named Wil- ] other with the responsibility of their difficulties, The two Garretts who lived there allege that liam and John Garrett, who have beeu iu the rRbel aroused the suspicions of the Garrett brothers, they had no idea'that these parties were Booth Himy, their house being about a quarter of a mile who urged Booth and Harrold to leave lest they and Harold, or that they wcr" any other than Irooi the road. Alter having gouo about three (the Garretu) should get into trouble with our what their iriends represented them, namely, pa- miles beyond the Garrett's house the party met a cavalry. This Booth refused to do without a roled Conledcrate soldiers on th-ir way home. loyal Virginian (of dark skin, of course,) and horse, and the two men retired to the barn, the They say when thecavaliy appeared in that neigh- I rum Liiii learned thai Booth and Harrold were door of which, after they had entered, Garrett borhood, and they were looking >or the assassins in the Garrett's. Right about was the work, and locked and remained himself on guard iu a neigh- they bent word to them that these two meii were about three o'clock in the morning the pursuers boring corn crib, as he alleges, to prevent tho on their place. In other words, they assert that arrived there. horses from being taken and ridden off iu the they ate entirely innocent ol giving the assassins Here let us state what the Garretts say about night by Booth and Harrold. f any aid and comfort, knowing tliem to be suctt. their visitors, who came to thiir house ou FiiJay Upon the approach of our cavalry about three The Ida, tugboat, reached here at)out 2 o'eloek or Saturday ol last week. Tho fugitives were o'clock on Wednesday morning, tho Garretts came last night with Uairold uud the two men above brought in a wagon by two Confederate officers, out to meet them, and in answer to their inquiries referred to, as well as the body of Booth. Har- who >pokeot Booih as a wcu'ided Mary lander directed them to the bare. rold was immediately put in a i-afo place. He on Lis way home, and that th*y wished to leavj Some iurther particulars arc given, not varying thus far, it is Biated, haa maui'csted uo disposi- bun there a shoit time and would take him away from what has already been stated. After the tion to speak of the affair; but as ho is known as by the 'J6ih. IJooih limped somewhat, and barn been burning three-quarters of hour a very talkative young man he may soou lesumo had an walked on crutches about tho place, complaining the roof was about to fall in, Booth, the use of his tongue. and when of his ankle. He and Harold regularly took their who had been standing with a revolver iu one Booth and Hairold were dressed in. Confederate meals at the house, aud bo.h kept up appearances carbine resting on the door, grey new uuiforms. Harrold was otherwise not hand and a made a well. as if to break through the guard disguised much. Booth's moustache bad been demonstration One day at the dinner table the conversation escape. prevent this Sergeant Corbett cutoff, apparently with scissors, and his beard al- and To turned on the assassination of the Prcsiueot, when fixed, intending to hit Booth the shoulder so as lowed to grow, changing his appearance consid- in Booth denounced the assassination in tho severest him. ball, however, struck a little erably. His hair had been cut somewhat shorter to cripple The terms, saying that "there was no punishment too high and entered the neck, resulting fatally. than he usually wore it. great enough lor the perpetrator." Booth had in his possession the short, heavy Booth's body was at once laid out on a bench, At another time some one said in Booth's pres- bowie knife with which he struck Major Rath- and a guard piaced over it. The lips of the corpse ence that rewards amounting to $200,000 had been bone, a Spencer carbine, three revolvers and a aie tightly compressed, and the blood has settled offered for Booth, and that lie wonld like to catch pocket pistol. in the lower part ol his lace and neck. Other- him, when Booth replied: " Yea, it would bo a Besides his suit of gray he had on an ordinary wise the face is pale, and wears a wild, haggard good haul, but the amount would doubtless soon cloth cap, heavy high-topped cavalry boot on the look, indicating exposure to the elements and a be increased to $000,000." right with top govern- rough time generally in his skulking flight. His foot turned down, and a Alter our cavalry passed toward Bowling Green ment shoe on his left foot. hair is disarranged and dirty, uud apparently has Booth and llanola applied to one of the Garretts clue could obtained the other two not been combed since be took his flight. The No be of for two horses that they might ride to Louisa and taking the Garretts into custody, head und breast are alone exposed to view, the men, two Court House, but he, fearing that the horses would the command immediately set out for Washing- lowtr portion of his body, including bauds and t.ot be returned, refused to let them go. Some ton, alter releasing the captain. feet, being covered with tarpaulin. words of recrimination passed between Booth and The two Garretts are dressed in rebel gray, hav- The shot which' terminated bis accursed life en- Harrold, and the Garrets becoming suspicious ing belonged to Lee's army and just returned tered on the leit side at the back of his neck, a that all was not right, urged them to leave. This homo on parole. They profess to have been en- point, curiously euough, not far distant from that they refused to do, unlets they could be supplied tirely ignorant of the character ol Booth and in which his victim, our lamented President, was with horses, and the Garretts then said that if Harrold, and manifest great uneasiness concern- shot. they remained they must sleep in the barn. One ing their connection with the affair. No orders have as yet been given as to what ot the Garretts went to sleep in ihe corn crib, Booth and Harrold narrowly escaped capture disposition shall bo made of his body. Largo fearing, as he says, that tho strangers would steal on this 6idc of the Potomac. Marshal Murray numbers of persons have been seeking ad miss on their horses. and his possee of detectives followed them to to the Navy Yard today to get a sight of the On returning to the Garrett's house, Lieut. Ba- within a short distance of Swan Point, but the body and bear the particulars, but none except- ker halted his force, and going in obtained a re- Marshal, being unacquainted with the country, ing the workmen, officers of the Yard, and those luctant confession from the brothers there wnere and without a guide, during the darkness of tho holding orders from .the Department, are allowed the criminals were. Going out again Lieutenant night took the wrong road, and before he could to enter. Baker aroused his escort who had nearly all gouo regain the trail Booth and Harrold succeeded iu A Spencer carbine, which Booth had with him to sleep, aud took them to the barn, around which crossing the river to Virginia. in the barn at the time he was shot by Sergeant he stationed them. He then advanced to the The report that Booth attempted to shoot him- Coibett, and a huge knife with blood on it, sup- door, and, knocking with the butt of nis revolver, self while in the barn is incorrect. however, posed to be the one with which Booth cut Major He, said: in his parley with his beseigers, indicated that Kathboue in the theatre box on the night of the he "Booth, we want you." would not be taken alive. His manner through- murder, and which was found on Booth's body, "Here I am," replied tho assassin, "who aro out was that of hardened desperation. have been brought to this city. The c;;rhine and Knowing you, Confederate or Yankee?" that his was sealed and preferring to knife are now in the possoasioa of Col. liaker. doom meet Lieut. Baker inlormed him who he was, and it there in that shape to the more ignominious The bills of exchange (which are for a considera- summoned him to surrender, but met with a de- death awaiting if captured, to ble amount) found on Booth's person were drawn him he appeared fiant refusal. pay little attention to the fire raging about him, on banks in Canada in October last. About that Quite a parley ensued— Harold at one time ex- until the roof begun to fall in, when he made a time Booth is known to have beeu in Canada, pressing a desire to surrender — which Booth re- movement indicating his purpose to a des- It is now thought that Booth's leg was frac- make buked, denouncing him as a coward. Booth perate his tured in jumping from the box iu Ford's theatre attempt to cut way out. could see the party outside through the cracks of The pistol used by Corbett was the regular upon the stage, and not by falling from his horse the. barn, but they could not see him. He swore cavalry while endeavoring to make his escape. large-sized pistol. He was offered $1000 that he would nevor be taken alive, and declared this morning for the pistol with its five undis- Great anxiety is manifested to view the body of that he could kill at least five men and then kill the muderor liooth, which yet remains on a gun- charged loads. himself should they attempt to break into the This afternoon, Surgeon-General Barnes, with boat in the stt earn off the Navy Yard. The wild- barn. an assistant, held an autopsy the body of est excitement has existed all day, and the great- on At last Lieut. Baker, fearing that the guerdlas Booth. est regrets were expressed that he was not taken and paroled rebel soldiers, with whom the coun- alive. The news of Booth's death reached the It now appears that Booth and Harrold had on try swarmed, would come to tho rescue, posted clothes were originally other curs of his mistress while she was in a street car, which of some the cavalrymen around tho barn, aud going to color than Confederate gray, but being faded and which caused her to weep aloud, and drawing a one end of it, which was filled with hay, pulled dusty presented that appearance, photograph likeness of Booth from her pocket, bome through a crack aud lighted it. The flames she kissed it fondly several times. ft The Washington correspondent of the Boston- ran up the crack to the top of the hay-mow over Harold has evaded every effort to be drawn into Journal gives the following account containing which they spread. Tho inside of the barn was conversation, but outward appearances indicate some additional particulars of interest now lighted up. that he begins to realize the position in which he When Booth first saw tho fire he clambered up On the Sunday after President Lincoln was as- is placed. There is uo hope for his escape from ou the mow and vainly attempted to extinguish sassinated, Sergeant Corbett obtained leave to at- the awful doom that certainly awaits him. His it. He then returned to his position ou the floor tend service at McKendree Chapel here, and there relatives and friends in this city are in the great- bctweei/the two doors, with his back against the prayed fervently that the assassiu might be pun- est distress over the disgrace brought upon thern- haymow, a revolver in each hand, and a Spencer ibhed. be Ives." carbine between his legs. Meanwhile the soldiers The detectives and their escort went down in a The following additional details of Booth's cap- had approached the barn, and Harrold, dropping steamboat to Belle Plain, where they landed be- ture have been received: bis pistol, gave himself up—receiving Booth's fore day on Monday morning and struck across maledictions as he loft the burning barn. Just af- for the RaDDahannock. terward the roof over the hay-mow began to crackle, as if it was" falling in, and Booth made a movement. Some of those who were watching him say that he was about to kill himself, while others declare that he was intending to break out and escape. Be this as it may, Serjft Corbett had a sight at him through a wide crack with his cav- alry six-shooter, and pulled trigger. The ball entered about where the President was shot, but passed entirely through Booth's head. Murder has been avenged. "It's all up now!" shrieked Booth ; "I'm gone I" and he staggered toward the door of the born. Lieut. Baker received him, and taking him from the blazing barn laid him on the ground, then sat down and took his head in his lap. Booth did not deny his crime, and showed no sign of repentance or of humanity, except to ask Lieutenant Dougherty to give a message to his mother. His death was not easy, but at three minutes after seven his spirit passed into the presence of on avenging God. Nothing remained for the party to do but to re- gain their steamboat at Belle Plain. They had to bring Booth's body in a cart, and at first Harold had to walk, to which he, as a Ma- ryland gentleman, objected. But after a rope was placed around his neck, with a slip-noose, and the other end of it was fastened to a cavalryman's saddle, ho started off, taking good care that the rope should not tighten. / : " shot was tired, and Booth was brought up and seemed to suffer Wilkes Booth's L.UBI liajs, laid upon the porch. He a great deal, especially just before his death. FLIGHT, CAPTURE AND "Did he talk any?" GRAPHIC STOKY OF BIS " as the wound was DEATH. He could not talk much, through his throat. I heard him say, 'Tell ,' and the detective who stooped One bleak, cold day of last week, says a cor- mother him said that the balance of the sentence respondent of tlie Atlanta Cun.Uitntioii,, I drove over ' The detec- died for my country. ' over the road which, iu ISUi, trembled with the was, that I live would not let us come very near him. of armies, until 1 reached Purr Royal in tramp the sun came up." time for dinner. This welcome meal was pro- Booth died as | " the barn in which Booth and cured of a citizen named Allan Bowie Where was secreted and where Booth was After taking a glance a i: old place and Harold were surroundings, 1 stepped a ,'ross the broad shot''" its of the orchard," she re- porch and knocked at tnedoorj U waaciieued "Yonder to the left plied " and here is where he was brought and" the laid upon the porch," said she, pointing to . pleasant-looking, breathed his | y n rosy-cheeked country spot near the door where Booth girl. . I last. . . , , , , pointed, "Is this the Garret Farm, where John Wilkes Looking in the direction m which she Boom was killed!"' which gurgled from | the stains of the blood, " I shall cell agony, 1 be glad to you anything! know," throat as he lay in the death ' Liooth's she said, pleasantly, I "but was a little girl were still plainly visible. then, scarcely 9 years old. I never shall "They say that a murderer's blood can nevci forget the day he came to our house. "It seems to be I It was be washed out," she said. about 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the stains upon the porch j and true For years the man who brought said ho distiact.aud you | him was a wounded whore he died remained very Confederate soldier, and asked father to take that tbov cSUs y*t be *a*lly trac«U. I 8e« .are of him until he got so ho could travel. I He was very lame, and went about upon a rude lir of wooden crutches. I reruomber one ,-y interesting incident that occurred when was here." " What was that?" " He was lying prone upon the grass in the ... , out yard, and we were ail playingabout him. 1 grabbed him by the arm in the game, and 1 accidently pushed his shirt sleeve up to the el jow, and there upon the forearm saw tat- I , oed the letters 'J. W. B.' 'Oh, what are .hose letters on there for'/' said I, quickly. I "'Why, child, those are the initials of my name, James W. Boyd.' 'I remembered then that the man who had brought him had intro- duced him as Mr' Boyd, and I went on with t lie play, and probably would have forgotten the circumstance, but for the startling events which rapidly followed it." In a moment a bright, rather handsome young girl, just budding into womanhood, stepped into the room. " This is my sister Cora, of whom I have been speaking. She was MrrBooth's favorite. "I don't remember anything about Booth," said the cheerful girl, " but they have told me a great deal about him since his death. How I wish 1 could remember him! I'm just going for a ride." " I suppose," said I, turning to the sister, "that you do not remember much of the occur- rences of those two days'/" "Oh, yes, I remember a great deal. I re- member that while wo were at dinner, the last T day Booth was here, brother . aek came in with the paper containing tho news of President Lincoln's assassination. As soon as he had opened the door he said "'The President has been murdered, and there has been $100,000 reward offered for the capture of the assassin.' 'Brother Will, who sat next to Booth, said: ' How I wish he would come this way and I could catch him.' " Booth turned quickly upon my brother and said: ' Would you betray him for $luu,U00 if you knew him'/ Brother Will made somclight reply, and Booth turned away and finished liia dinner iu silence." "Did he ever speak of the assassination of the President'/" "He referred to it only once, and never until brother Jack had brouglit the news. Then he said that ho had heard of the assassination of the President tho forenoon before ho came to our house, but that he did not believe it." "Did he seem disturbed or uneasy at any time during his stay?" "In the forenoon of the second day Harold came to our house, and Booth seemed to be \ery much disturbed by his arrival, and took him out to the loft of the house, near the fence, where they had a long conversation. He then came back to the porch, and was standing there in his shirt sleeves, when the soldiers, who afterward arrested him, passed down the road toward Bowling Green. He then seemed very much worried. I was stand- ing on tho porch near my father, who said to him: " 'You seem very much excited. Have you been doing anything that makes you afraid of the soldiers'/ Lf you have, you will have to find some other place to stay than here.' "'Oh. no,' replied Booth. ' I did get into a little difficulty over in Maryland, and one man, I believe, was killed; but it was nothing with which the soldiers could possibly have any- thing to do.' "He seemed so restless, however, that it caused remark, and in a few minutes after the soldiers had passed, he and Harold walked off toward the woods, and did not come back until near dark." " I suppose you know nothing of what hap- pened that night?" " Oh, yes, I saw everything nearly. I wap tho iirst one of the children out after father was arrested. The barn was then burning. I and in a few moments after 1 got out, the fatal | Quips (continued) f* V • ' I Quips (continued) King George had a reason for call- I character. He had done nothing ing it treason; J wrong and a blockade was not go- He could sell his stamps to only a ing to stop him. At that time the few. Frances was noted as one of the fast- Calvin li. Dewey, Cranston, RI est ships around, and when she SAVED BY HIS OWN HANDS started to run the blockade a battle- IH?^ It seems' strange even today, 110 ship was soon in pursuit. Grandpa years later, that two lifelong friends kept on going until the battleship the little from village of Sagamore, started firing. Only then did Massachusetts, on Cape Cod should Grandpa decide to find out what was have been implicated in the assassi- wrong. He let the battleship come nation of President Lincoln. alongside, and its captain and officers It was April 1865. Grandpa, Capt. came aboard. Russell Gibbs. was captain of the Grandpa demanded to know why Frances, and had sailed up the Poto- he had been stopped. He was told mac with a cargo of Massachusetts he was under arrest for helping a marble to be used in the enlargement to escape. captain of the Capitol building. Early in the murderer The morning of April 15 when their work told how President Lincoln had been was completed, the Frances and her shot the night before by John Wilkes crew set out for their home port. Out Booth, and that Booth had been seen in the bay there was a blockade. running clown the dock and jumping Grandpa was a large man of strong aboard the Frances just as it pulled out. All roads and railroads were be- ing guarded and a blockade set up in the bay. The officers started searching the ship while Grandpa lined up his crew for inspection. "There he is — there he is!" they shouted, and grabbed Grandpa's friend Stillman Ellis. "You are under arrest for shooting the president," said the captain. "No, no, that is my lifelong friend, Stillman Ellis," shouted Grandpa. "This is Booth," said the officer, "the spitting image of him." Grandpa did some quick think- ing. them your hands, Still- Note the resemblance: John Wilkes "Show Booth (above) and Stillman Ellis (below). man, show them your hands!" Stillman offered his hands palms up. The officers stared. Here was a man with the face and figure of John Booth, but his hands were not those of an actor. These were the tired, work-worn hands of a sailor, with deep calluses from many years of handling ropes. I am not sure just what happened then but the Frances was allowed to go through the blockade to her home port, and Grandpa and Stilhnan went back to the Cape to tell of their harrowing experience. Mildred Gibbs Gage, Buzzards Hay, MA ^5t> ' " H 7 |f - -^ i - » ,V^ V i v/ Man VWjo Held.'booth's ° Horse I Recalled for Oldest Inhabitants ! "I The man who allegedly ' held , setting the stage for the nres*«> ^ Joh» WitoM South', horse whiJe development • j of tile DUrict " I he shot Abraham Lincoln w*5 du A nuillber or , oneof . theflgumcalledfromth€ ca5e . loclud ^^u | na tfafi Ke/ii ;y 1- past last night by Charles J B. were reviewed by Mr. »- Murray, Murray. president of the Dia- jln that case, he said a descend - met Bur Aasoeiation, «»* ft o in a talk Francis Booti Key wa* before the hot b) it Association of Oiaest'f Gcn Daniel Sickle* for his st '"o»*« interest in Inhabitants. I the orbcers Mr. wife. Murray said he could re , Mr. member seeing " Murray praised the asso- !Feaxu|_JJoet "<"""•ciation foru.r its service u the oohgmw *it c juUiJt cnliecLr,,? m pre- 1 ng tile ti tln-fou arlKJ * <*»>»»<** of the SSJ on1 ",pual.m 'V He„ U called the group "cuu- 01 l."« o ' ally•' believed,believed city. Mr . \^* ' ^ T «««si«tion ' Plained, ^ p««aeU a reso- h that Peanut M JwJoe- »*«iiuno»a J , , an -reaffirming•» it* i. acccmplJee, , "^ Manstand { but he wa« ae- against the desecration hqmtted. | o' Ann Lslice Day mow Mr. Murray ad\anced Veterans Day. I the by .some tneury that Washington merchants. I might jhdve expanded New members accepted m- eastward inste*d James L Chmn, ol to the wtat. A rummer pubhc relation* of Official; Elton H Shi#y, {years uyo. he i..ud, » punt- the British er, and Robert i-'aulkuer oi the i Embassy then ou East Capitol Boa id of street, Education. wanted to break down a I The meeting- w« *«U to expand. The s conducted by building Corcoian Thorn, N [owners objected, and president in the----. em-- ... k«<-i tnewil Oldv.u Unionunion bassj moved uptown, tut me Muu«p possibly i Nineteenth and H stree ts N.w. ! Win - '*•-" -**'"— r I i mm iTli Booth In Maryland By Paul Brown , Thomas JMies And The Assassin A FEW MILES north of the site of the nationally discussed bridge to be constructed across the Potomac, which will con- nect Southern Maryland with the Northern Neck of Virginia, occurred one of the most dramatic incidents of the Civil War. In those days this section was an important line of communica- tion between the North and South, just as it will be again when the bridge is completed. Near Popes Creek, the present terminus of the Southern Maryland branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, lived Thomas A. Jones, before the start of' the War Between the States, just an average farmer of Southern Maryland. He owned a few slaves and acquired a farm a few miles south of Popes Creek on the bank of the Potomac. At the out-*1 ' of the became an break war he One of Booth's first questions was ardent Southern sympathizer. what the . Nation thought ol his A neighbor, Maj. Roderick G. assassination oi Lincoln. Watson, who had a son in the Con- Jones' first reaction and answer j federate Army, conducted with the was that it was gratifying lo all ; help of his daughter a signal system Southern sympathizers, later, but , between the northern bank and the he states, wnen he began to realize Grimes Farm on the Virginia shore, the serious consequences of the near Mathias Point. crime, he changed his opinion. This gradually developed into the Booth asked for newspapers and main crossing point along the river Jones obtained some for him so that for fugitives, including businessmen, he might read the news about the women, resigned Army officers, ad- efforts being made to capture him. venturers and suspected persons. Jones also stated that Booth never Early in 1861 Gen. Sickles of the seemed to show any remorse for his troops Union forces was sent with act. He was impatient at all times, to break up to the lower Potomac wishing to proceed in his flight. this means of communication and Each day Jones visited the fugitives the Maryland finding Grimes on and brought them food and whisky. shore arrested him and sent him to The horses were taken into nearby Fort Delaware. Jones was also ar- rested on suspicion when he re- turned from a visit to Richmond and sent to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington. IN MARCH. 1862, Jones was re- leased from prison by a general or- der of Congress, which was passed m the belief that many innocent men had been imprisoned unjustly. He returned to his southern Mary- land home to find his wife dead, his farm mortgaged and in a very poor condition, his creditors besieging him. Grimes had also been released. He presently approached Jones with a plan to assist in carrying mail for the Confederacy to and from the South to the Northern States and Canada. At first Jones demurred. Then Maj. William Norris, a Con- federate signal officer and a Mary- mmkmmm hind man, visited Jones and per- $m&m suaded him to accept the job. They ; , .:: agreed on a sum to be paid to Jones for his work. This he never col- lected. By this time the river and its banks were carefully patrolled by Northern boats and soldiers. But by signal systems from Jones' house to that of Grimes on the other shore it could be determined when it was safe to ?ross. Under the cover of darkness Grimes would row to the Maryland shore and deposit the mail in an old tree below Jones' Zekiah Swamp and killed for fear place. At the first opportunity Jones they might be a means of revealing would creep down one of the many the hiding place. shore wooded ravines leading to the Four days passed and many sol- secure the mail. This was dis- and diers came into the section and patched northward by messengers many homes were searched. One deeply interested the who were m day when Jones was in the county >e ' " l Seat, old Port Tobacco, a Washing- Dr. Stoughten Dent, who had was ton detective remarked that ha two sons in the Confederate tximy, would give $100,000 to the one who and practiced medicine from Bryan- could tell anything regarding town south to the river Riding Booth's whereabouts. Although horseback over this territory, he Jones had been reduced almost to an ideal medium to speed the was poverty by the war, he kept his its northward as far mail on way secret. as Bryantown. He would stuff the FRIDAY of that week Jones mail into his saddlebags, heavy coat ON the vilage of Alens Fresh, and even his boots. His activities rode to only a few miles away. When he as a messenger, other than that of arrived there a troop of Union mercy, were never suspected. The cavalry was at the vilage. He system worked so well it was re- overheard an officer say they had ported that no mail was delayed just received word that Booth had and the New York papers of that been seen in St. Mary's County. time were delivered in the Rich- The troop soon departed in that di- headquarters of the Confed- mond rection. As it was nearly dusk eracy almost as soon as they arrived Jones mounted his horse and by in Washington. roaa and through the woods went In dealing with many persons, to tne hideout. Jones developed into a man who He informed them that it was had the implicit trust of the Con- now or never. Putting Booth on his federate authorities. He assumed horse he preceded them and stopped a meekness and humility which at intervals to see if the road was completely fooled the Northern clear. By an agreed whistle signal from point to point un- forces in his vicinity, developed a they moved til they arrived at Huckleberry cunning, under an outward guise of Farm. Stopping outside the house apparent slowness of wit and in- Jonjs told them to wait and he dolence, whicli protected him so bring them food. Booth ex- well from suspicion that the Fed- would into your erals never bothered with him. To- claimed, "Oh, can't I go a and get some ward the end of the war Jones house just moment refused. Jones lost his farm on the river and moved hot coffee." Jones to Huckleberry, north of his old led the fugitives through the wood home. to Dents Meadow, about three-quar- ters of a mile away. Booth had a IN THE THIRD YEAR of the war compass he had brought from a plot was formed to seize President Washington. By the aid of a can- Lincoln in Washington, on one of his dle Jones showed him the direction trips to the Navy Yard, and carry to steer to take him into Machodac him to Southern Maryland and Creek on the Virginia side. He was across the river from some point on instructed to stop at the first house, Port Tobacco Creek, below old Port which belonged to Mrs. Quesen- Tobacco. Jones knew of this plot berry, and inform her that he had although he was not a party to it. been sent there by Jones. There is no evidence that Jones But in giving the compass direc- knew Booth at this time, although tion Jones had forgotten to allow the latter iiad visited in Charles for the flood tide. As a result they County several times. weivj carried upstream to a point in On Saturday afternoon, April 15, Nanjemony Creek, spending the 1864, two Federal officers appeared day in the marsh after receiving at Huckleberry Farm and inquired food from a nearby house. That of Jones if a boat on the shore near night they went across the Potomac, his place belonged to him. He an- arriving at Mrs. Quesenberry's on swered in the affirmative and ex- Sunday following the assassination. plained it was used by Henry Wood- land, his former slave, for fishing. SUSPICION was directed toward The two horsemen told him the Jones when officers, in searching President had been killed the night near his home, found a rude shelter before, and that they were looking in the pines on Brenttield Farm, out for the assassins who were be- near his home. He was again ar- lieved to have escaped toward rested, along with Cox, and carried southern Maryland. to Biyantown for questioning. From On Sunday morning a messenger there he was taken to Carroll Pris- arrived from Samuel Cox's place on, in Washington. Nothing could saying Mr. Cox wished to see Jones be proved, however, about his con- immediately. Jones mounted his nection in the escape and in about horse and rode over. Cox related six weeks he was released. to Jones that on the night previous. Booth and a companion had ap- peared at his home, with a Negro Polit its as a guide, and asked for assistance I wholeheartedly agree with the in crossing the river. From all evi- dence available. Booth and Herold President's observation that anyone never entered the Cox home, but who proposes local WPA admin- they were directed to a hiding nlace istration as a means of eliminating in the trick pines near Bel Alton. politics "is either insincere or ig- EVIDENTLY JONES was per- norant of the realities of local suaded to assist the men in crossins American politics." There was no: the Potomac, and he was directed shadow of politics attached to to their hiding place and advised the Federal relief officials under of a signal agreed upon to warn the FERA, under the Federal CWA friend. He and even under the WPA until them he was a nroceed- ^—- — ^janir t ha fatal step of re- (0£Z$ nmpinx uvu.tvj) y -Buojs md f\q ,/3MVJ OMOl 3II1.,§ $ ivunau) :t3joB^ ' d imp3 n q u 3 uvn6s-unoj S3n AUD*a°Hi„* •sun.i oueq Suot; oqi qoiq.w qgno.iq; apisA\i;unoo ipu 'pm^ oqi si sr Pt-io.vY uiea.ip e si uoisuaqo.iduiOD qons jo ppoAY v ')' a-'no 0) Avoq avoum Hie 3ui.iouns s]q ozqBo.t Plnoo •uo[ ) huh cIx3 moqj.AY ''spuam siq a 1 leqi .10 i(piiH,s.iapi,n opidiuoo Av pout pue uos euonouo q?! p[o-.ieo.\- 2t si'i. o) uonmiis 3} ED , 3p E ujBidxa jaq^j T Pinoo e )h MI aAaipq' oj Pjbu si « i O* 1 1^ X the open door Ihey saw several people eating supper. Among them was Booth, CAPTURED ASSASSIN but the soldiers did not know It and kept on riding twenty miles farther to the place where the negro said he was hid, and, of OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN course, found no one. Their dusky guide then said that the fugitive was probably at the house they had passed twenty mile* SOLDI lilt WHO AJSSISVKO IN WOOD back, so they turned and went back at a CAlTURJil OF BOOTH. double quick. On coming up to the place the captain ordered the house surrounded and detailed take Oliver Lonhcy, u Veteran, Tells of Mr. Lonkey (who was a sergeant) to a squad and search the outbuilding. When Rxcitintf Events Which Occurred he arrived at the granary he found a man iu Lincoln's Time—Wu On* of « sitting asleep on a half-bushel measure in bquad of Twenty-seven That Cap- the doorway. Sergeant Lonkey leveled his revolver at him and ordered hlin to sur- SLaye*. tured the 1'rciideul'i render, and the fellow was so frightened at thus being awakened he fell off on the floor. The prisoner proved to be u paroled rebel tua Paul Revler Is enjoying a visit from and said that there were other men sleep- Duiuloa, biother-ln-law, Oliver Lonkey of ing in the barn. Ho was then conducted to TrlSuiie. Minn., says the tVunkllh the captain, who ordered the barn to be Mr. Lonkey la a gentleman whoae mem- surrounded. ejccltlng event la ory turns back to a most The captain then called on Booth to sur- one of the the nation's history, for he was render and had to repeat the command sev- ot tha men and probably the only one living eral times before there was an answer. captured Wilkes Booth, th« bund which Booth then called out, "W'hat have I Lincoln. assassin of President Abraham done?" The captain then replied, "It makes Lonkey par-' Although not old In years, Mr. no difference what you have done, we want tlcipated In the with credit and dis- wax you, and will have you." "What 1 havo serving the tilxttentb New tinction, in done, I did for the good of my country, cavalry. regiment was In camp York The and I'll never go Into Washington alive," two after at Washington, and about weeks was Booth's reply. picked the assassination. Captain Dougherty Harold, who was with him, called out, squad of twenty-seven men, of which out a "I'll surernder captain," and on command one. Mr. Lonkey was of the latter he camo out, and Sergeant had 'not the slightest Idea wher* They Lonkey tied him to a tree and put a guard liny going, but under the direction of Were over hijn. Once more the captain called on crossed the Pototoao Detective Baker they Booth to surrender, threatening to set the into Maryland. They were then shown pho- barn on lire if he did not, and as the fugi- Booth of Harold, who had tographs of and tive persisted in refusing, the barn was kill Seward, and attempted to Secretary tired. Informed of the nature of their mis- were The blaze sprung up Iiercely. Sergeant sion. They left the boat after dark and Corbet t then opened the door a few indie* traveled all night searching every building and shot Booth. They rushed in. and they came to. The neit morning they saw dragged the body out and carried It to the horseback iwu men ahead of them on and house, and Sergeant Lonkey was detailed capture them, but only attempted to were to get a doctor, but medical assistance wai capturing one of them, partially successful, of no avail, for Booth died a few hours a negro. The other off his horse Jumped later. His last words were: "I die for the und ran away. The negro, when ques- good of my country." Ills body was taken tioned, said he knew where Booth was to Washington. Harold was conveyed by hiding and offered to show them the way. Sergeant Lonkey to Washington also, and They traveled all day. About sundown was afterward hanged. they passed a house and looking through lOWAN'S COMPANY SURROUNDED BOOTH Husband of Mrs. Sophia Lotts of Dows Was a Member of Organization. Special to The Register. DOWS, la., Oct. 11. —Mrs. Sophia Lotts, survivor of four wars, resides here. She was born in Germany in 1832. When asked, "In what part of Germauy were you born?" she laughingly said, "Oh, that is enough of that." She came to America with her parents in 184 2. Her young suitor was a soldier with General Wilfield Scott on his triumphal march through Mexico. At the age of 20 years he returned from the war and the^oung couple were married soon afterward. In 1862 at the call of his coun- try he enlisted in the federal army, where he remained until the close of the war. At the time of the as- sassination of President Lincoln his regiment was in the city of Washington. Mr. Lotts' company was detailed to follow Booth, the assassin, and surrounded the barn in which Booth had taken refuge. Mrs. Lotts cared for the family of little children than had come to them and aided in "picking lint" for the soldiers' wounds and doing whatever else she could for them. After the civil war they came to Iowa, where she has since lived. The Mexican and civil war veteran passed to his reward a few years ago. During the Spanish war the whole family entered into the cause of humanity represented in that conflict. The sons of Mrs. Lotts were too old and her grandsons too young for service at the front, but in the recent war she had three grandsons. One crossed the seas soon after enlistment and was a prisoner in Constantinople at the time the armistice was signed. Mrs. Lotts herself scarcely missed a meeting of the Red Cross. She contributed both labor and-fnancial support. V Mrs. Lotta Is still hale and hearty. She attends the services of the Presbyterian church nearly every Sabbath day. The midweek prayer meeting seldom finds her absent, and one day this week she was at the ladies' aid society help- ing prepare the goods for the holi- day church bazaar. i L i tfE . r / BOOTH'S APPEABANCE IN PENNSYLVANIA. Heading, Pa., 20th. Have just seen Lyon, a IT. S. detective> from whom wc got the followrinjToUtiva to the Booth affair. The report that Booth came to Reading iu the train is correct, lit; was in Roadlng all day. The man that recognized him informed detective Lyon of his being iu town, and that he knew it was Booth. Lyju immediately, in company with Miller, another detective, procided to trace him. They finally traced him to theMopot, and as- certained that the man answering his description had got in a train which had just left. The facts were immediately inado known to Mr. Nichols, the Superintendent of the Koad, and efforts were made to telegraph to Port Clinton, but the ope- rator not being about, an engine was fired up, and Messrs. Lyon and Miller togothor with the man who had seen Booth, proceeded at full spoed to overtake the regular train. They ilid not overtake the train, but at Port Clinton were informed that the man des- cribed had got off there, but whether he went to the Cattawissa train or not they could not ascertain. A despatch was sent to Lamagua to tho conductor of the train, and In the meantime Port Clinton was searched. Upon the arrival of the train at Tamaqua, the conductor telegraphed as follows: "The man is on the train." Another despatch was sent to the next station for further information with orders for his detention. This forenoon at 8 o'clock Lyon received a telegram from Conductor Bright, dated Cattawissa saying '•no such man came through in my train." Mr. Lyon states he ia sacisliud the man is Booth. The measures being taken for his arrest are kept private for obvious reasons. The following is a description of tho party on tha train: ''About flvo feet eight inches high, black eyes, black hair, short and inclined to curl, short black moustache, had cot- ton in both ears, wore white felt hat, had a piece of crape on his iuft arm, wore a Lincoln badge on tha right breast, and had on a black frock coat, with common military blue pants." Af / "jl /< // ». V £3 M CO > 8* tot — Btfy Lyons. /' O !*# 3 3 c/5 A ~3 o •i ..f M '-WI ( Oa April tSLtuSkfis day ac2cee&oQ&«asco*Q£%d and shot in'VJj^Jsia.tia^eTfcs esd£rhuyi££a Joursal, a Reading weekly aawaaaaer, Ru//v /.vaas Leads Chase said cf Bufljg&ffaas chase : "Here ends the graatgCBMfaoa which, though tttodo 7 After Befkg&od Assassin Uttle foundation, ctnaOT^fejBy^frqpfr ftt /'refnigyfor^ qySfo so an Important evas3».q*23 he taag nftetabtni and ** The suspected assaasia of President Lincota recounted hi this conaawUp fleeing through Berts County Wedsesdsy, Apzfl la, Which indicates thai Beading's weddj newspaper 1865. Close bekind was WuHam Y. Lyoa, better k&oam of the Civil War period, ought have tcca eipza&y at as Bully Lyca*," fcia aver-presetd coza cob pipe wrong in its conclusions as was BuOy Lya&s ia his (or clutched between lids teoih. #/ now bo one seetm ever tn have beard teil about the Even officials of the Philadelphia cad Beading erroneous chase of John WOkes Booth. Railroad £ot in on the chasa, and Readies and BuSy it aB started when a local citizen, never identified. Lyons got first page stteaiion in New York newspapers. said he saw Booth m Reading oa Tuesday night < >ihcrw lse that Wednesday was a solemn day ia this following the Saturday aasassJaataaa. The informant city as it was in mast of the nation It was the day waited until Wednesday when he said he saw the man Lincoln's body was moved from the White House to the again . drinkm^ m a down town saloon with another man. Capitol In Reading all Peon street business places were The informer told of following (he suspect ta the 7th and closed, as were the courts and .government offices. Chestnut street station where he baard&d a train going There were services in most efcurche*. People wore north black armbands and commercial est£bii£&meats had The informant said be also boarded the train while lht- ir windows and tnrihtrngs dzaped in kAaek- it stood at the station and shook hands with the man he " A memorial parade was kald that afieenoaa. said was Booth He said he asked the man whether he " Principal among the paraders was a irststaal lodge was going up on the tram Upon his asswering that "be known as the Brotherhood of the Union Theorgasuxa- was not," the asaa thought ta he Booth explained that he be Beading or so tinn seems to have dissolved sometime before World would hack ia m a day The stranger, the of the coosersatxen colored War I. during course Why would Joan Wilkes Boots come to Pt£C£yi- up seiscai tunes, it was reisiad, sad appeared annoyed of eitizea vama at that time* Well, for one thsng, it was knewa he sad desirous avoiding chLaivsiica. The said had sustained severe financial losses in the PasasyJ- he was pestthro the man was Booth, because he had lor several years. \ania oil fields. He might be headed that assy, aaaftaf known the eefar Just as the train ksS the station the loyal eitosa reason was this area's long association with 1 iacaiaa ancestry; and there was no telling just what Bos£a jsaaped off the aaaaaager esachasul notified sevsszl fffrnni* to give the alarm might have in his twisted aii^d. of the railroad His taihire ^•p B >rQ n the Go\ ernor Curtin offered a $10,000 reward to anyone AwpfT was as anaogiag t^ ^ y f with which t^T^n^t fesd ta ccpe the capture. capturing Booth in Pennsylvania. People frooi m afigetttf ,fa Corroborating the siecta. Bully ' " Philacklphiato Titusville were eta the alert. Maaftag 5 to a VS. An account of the Booth chase hi Berks c^tjarada Ifcaa e **isdfiiaJ dsteetiae'* 4ea tefcfilfrwwaalftu. JZ ^awfcL the Part Quitaa i S3S£ \sT£XZ2£!msm •SB IM 4 osaaf our eaal trains lac* night He is now (Thursday, 3 Anrfl Eft cmi^tclSTacaaqda, teJurc we telegraphed to look cat far Ifca. aii3 wEl hateLJ-until identified. Thert has been wvsiHSfixm&lot suspicion that it is Booth." Wtta C» <§K5pacf ia custody the man who said he Tte bc nuMfrff 64 wttmvtakatk* regular tram knew Bas£»and had seen bun in Reading, was taken before a justice of the peace to make an affidavit of his ^^^ ««» probably had knowledge At this point the cloak and dagger affair !SL?5-SSS*gotten off the trria at that station. Ko one became a farce. know ^^appeared to which way (Lc fc^twe w*»L The Reading informant revealed he had only seen Booth once before; that this was seven years ago in a the road, because theatre 0* parsuenunrf gg* know whether „r in Baltimore. What was more surprising, he not this elavve did not na fed taken the Catawissa tram 4 now believe that the person apprehended at dispatch alao was Mat to Tamaquato the conductor of Tamaqua was Booth. Yet, heretofore, he had stated positively that the man was Booth and that he knew him intimately. Bully Lyons next received a ategram from Nevertheless, the suspect and the informant were brought back to Reading by Mr. Lyon and taken before came through ca my tram" Up™ the arrival of toe Captain George W. Dureh, provost marshal. Captain other train at Tamamia, the conductor telegraphed Durcll went over the whole thing again and then -Ttte man a on this train." A*>ther telegram was released the suspect. tartuy sent to the next staDoa lor further information The New York papers say the name of the suspect «nd with orders for the man's detention. The chase had never was made public. The Berks and Schuylkill now umwed down in one direction and Bully Lyons Journal gives his name as David Lowe, without further «as hdly satisfied that the (ogitrve waTuneain s identification. The 18G6 Tending CSry Directory lists a ' David Low (no e" > as living at 431 Church alley. No asmi ^wer^oo ^AiHSlJ * * the man aa follows employment is given for him, unlike most other About 5 feet 8 notes ia hejghtL. hlack hair cut short listings. j^euned to curl; short black mustache; ha* cotton The more solemn part of Beading "S tribute to ; »***<<*&*; ~ hadan*eee of crape Abraham Lincoln that Wednesday, April 19, 18(5, was oaS.hTL£"hts left arm ^wore a Uacoto badge on the right breast earned on under the auspices of the Brotherhood of the m mourning; had on a biaei coat with coeamoa blue Union which bad a considerable membership in this military pants." area at that time. MrJ«ii±oUafen(tftedtoS.B«di^a^.ivgarding Chief Marshal of the parade was Dr Decatur G. hts port ut the maeatigation a a let? wrmen at Schoener. of Freedom Circle No. 21 Dr. Schaaner bved Reading April 2«: at 627 Washington St. Ha was a nativecf Rehrersbiag. 1 °y reUira fr8ra p<*tsville the feirresentatiun t.'S ! where his father, Adam, also was a physician. He to me last evening was such that 1 ordered a special graduated at Philadelphia Medical College and came to engine to Pottsvifl*. after the up* vena* passenger Heading m 1856. jam; but the man had left the tram * **£? before Dr Sehoener's aides were Levi W. Bertolet and Thomas E Purchase. Mr. Bertolet was a brewer who Imton after dark and stole his passage to Tamaqua on lived at 712 Peau St The brewery was in the rear yard. There was a vehicle entrance from Peon Street. The brewery had been established some years earner by a son-in-law of the Lauer family Mr. Purchase was a peddler and lived at 375 S. 7th St. Leading the line of march was the Ringgold band. A hundred membea of Dr. Schoecer's Freedom Cwvte No. 23 followed, each in proper, regalia. After that was a delegation from Philadelphia with the National Baud of that city. G. A. Nficholls. superintendent of the P. and R. Railroad, ordered a special locomotive wtfh Bully Lyone aboard to chase the regular Port Clinton tram m the search for a man suspected of being John Wilkes Booth. c of Pennsylvania," published .n 1853. a This sketch of Port Clinton appeared in Bowen's "Sketch Book the village a man telteved to be the slayer little more than a decade beiore Bully Lyons chased through of President Lincoln. . ','. 4- ri