BE is
THE CAPTURE QF BOOTH
7
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
F IT is true that the
fired near Cor I
in Massa
April
“heard roun
then it is equ
a shot fired
ater in Wa
ing in
one
ec)
for
For it was t!
life of one of
Just at i
ed mo
and the
were his, an
cut the threa«
time sha
ness
Cou
assassinati
John Wilk
fascination
unforgett
The
the retrit
overtook ti ]
one to most American
in which fact and fi
separably Interwover
which have passed sine
That th
to realize
atmos
political
vailed at
conflict,
not to
should be
story of Lincoln's
has been handed
contain as many
truths as truths.
tecently there has appeared a book
which much light that
famous tragedy and from which it is
possible to know what actually took
place that Good Friday
and during the wild
ment that followed, It is
Wilkes Booth—Fact and
Lincoln's Assassination,” published by
Houghton Mifflin company, and writ.
ten by a veteran of the stage, Francis
Wilson, who knew many of the mem-
bers of the cast who played with Miss
Lavra Keene at Ford's theater that
night as well as members of the
Booth family, notably Edwin Booth.
Wilson, according to one reviewer of
his book, “writes not In justification
of murder, much less in Justification
of that monumental crime. His task
is the thankless but Important one
of telling the truth to his fellow-eiti-
story
ig shoul
here
vindicativ
the
In such an
be
close
wondered
distorted
assassination which
sheds new on
on historic
days of excite.
“John
Fiction of
pletures, courtesy
Mifflin company.
Houghton
his broth
“Nor
in attempting
South) a
i
said, do
prisone
to whom
But
marked the
Booth
crowd
she owes g0 mue
when [oe's surrender
beginning of the
heard
that gathered hefore
and
the
he White
the
isement of
end
Lincoln speak to
t
return from
House upon his
suggesting enfranct
who had
dangerous was
mind. “This is the last
will Booth
to Lewis Payne, his companion, and a
fellow conspirator in the for
the abduction of Lincoln,
The details of the assassination
self and the pursuit and capture
Booth is so familiar to Ameri
cans as to need no repetition. Ome
of the services book is
to correct some of the erroneous ideas
about both, The usual story has
Booth leaping to the stage from the
box In which the President sat, after
he had shot Lincoln, brandishing =a
dagger and shouting “Sic semper ty-
rannis!®™ The fact is that Booth
shouted those words before he fired
and that he did not speak after leap
ing to the stage, The commonly
cepted version of Booth's death is
that he was shot down in the burning
negroes served
a more
his
he
as soldiers,
born in
speech
idea
ever make” muttered
plans
it-
of
most
of Wilson's
ac
homa
wmlimed
kin
yenrge
Bates discovere
body of
He took charge
hig home in
George
nd carried it to
He then wrote
George really
pented at
of £1(x).-
iment
Booth,
book to 1
Booth nie nn re
the
his
wns
ter reward
pts to colle
x) which the federal
had offered for the
the assassination,
as 1025 fake Booth
in Minneapolis, where, ac.
cording to the story, he called upon
Blanche lar Booth, daughter
Junius Brutus Booth, the younger, a
brother of Edwin and John Wilkes
tooth. Knocking on her door at the
hotel and speaking from the
he sald: “Blanche, den't you want to
gee Johnne?” that it was
the work of some nractical joker, she
refused to see him, and after leaving
a card bearing the name of John
Wilkes Booth, he departed, saying that
he would call again. He did not show
up again, however, and although some
newspapers made much of the inei-
dent, nothing further ever came of It.
For the truth Is, as Wilson's book
proves conclusively, John Wilkes
Booth died In the burning barn, prob.
ably by his own hand, and all who
later claimed to be the assassin were
rank imposters.
after
As late another
showed up
de
outside,
Jelieving
Crank Held Car
‘ Due to a rainstorm and its effects,
ft woman driver at Plainville, Conn.
rammed a tree head on with her
car. She was not badly injured, but
when she attempted to back out from
the tree, the car wouldn't move, She
called for an wrecking crew, and they
found that the car was held fast by
the crank which had been left In
the front of her car. It had been
driven into the tree as far as the end
of the handle and the wrecking crew
had to saw off the handle before
they could separate the car from the
tree,
Mad
A bridge player about town was
playing at a very nice club when his
partner, for reasons we shall not at.
tempt to go into, threw all his thirteen
cards at him, This Insalted Mr. Jones,
ns we shall eall him, and he left the
room. Flushed and nervous, he paced
about, and in so doing came upon one
of the board of governors. He told
him what had happened and demanded
that some sort of action be taken,
“My good fellow,” sald the governor,
who was not one of the more dynamic
governors, “how fortunate that youn
were not playing quolts!”
No Help for It
Mrs. A~You say you were up half
the night with the baby. What was
the trouble?
Mrs. B.~My husband was away oe
a trip.
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| Four Claim Possession
of Pen Lincoln Used |
The recent sale at auction of a pen
purporting to be the implement used
by President Lincoln when he gigned
the emancipation proclamation has
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