The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-01

sgain; "Gor-r, wouldn't have dat on me
fur toussnd, iousand dollars" The pro
gress Of the team was slow, With frequent
danger Of shipwreck altogether, buttOward
noon the cortege fled through Port Royal
The little ferry, sgzin in requisition, took
them over by squads and they pushed from
Port Conway to Bell Plsin, which they
reached in the middle of the afternoon. All
the way the blood dribbled from the corpse
In SOW, incesssnt ssnguiue exudation.
THE CORPSE IN THE CAPITAL.
At Washington, high and low turned
out to look on Booth. Only few were
permitted to see his corpse for the purpose
Of recognition. u was fairly preserved,
though on one side of the lace dis lorted and
looking blue like death, and wildly bandit
like, as if beaten by svenging winds.
WHERE BOOTH LIES.
Yesterday the Secretary of War, without
instructions of any kind, committed to Col
OF Ell Lafayette Q. Baker, of the secret ser
vice, the corpse of Booth. The secret ser
vice never fulfilled its volition more secre-
lively. "Whst have you done with the
body?" said I to Baker. "Thst is known"
he answered, fto only one man living be-
sides myself. 1t is gone. l will not tell
you where The only man who knows is
sworn to silence. Never till the great
trumpeter comes shall the grave Of Booth
be discovered" And this is true. List
night, the 27th of April, small row boat
received the carcass of the murderer; two
men were in It; they carried the body of
into the darkness, and out Of that darkness
it will never return. In the darkness, like
his great crime, may it rensin forever, i'm
pslpsble, invisible, ndescript, condemn
ed to thst worse than dGmnsiion, snnihila-
ton. The river-bottom may oozs about it
laden with great shot and drowning man
scles. The earth msy have opened to give
It that silence and forgiveness which man
will never give its memory. The fishes
may swim around it, or the daisies grow
white above it; but we shall never know.
From the New York Tribune, April 2Stb
Booth, before he died, wss apparently IA.
tionsl, but talked at random and contra
dicIed himself as he had done throughout,
and he said: "Tell my mother I have
died for my country. Yougentlemsn, have
conscious of the near approach of death,
but died as friVOlOusly and hardened as he
had lived.
His body was fully identified By his mi
tials on his hand in India ink, his memo
rsudum books and other papers, and per-
sonsl recognition before snd Sfter desth Of
the detective officers who knew him.
He had his mOustsche shaved of, and
hsd uniform beard Of four or five days.
He wore gray wooden shirt, had on
dark cashmere pants one cavslry,or thea
tre, top boot, which drew up above the
knee but was turned down When captured.
On the other foot he + al an old shoe. His
leg was bandaged where it was broken -
Harold says by his spur catching in the
flag festooning the Presidents tox, and
tripping in his leap upon the stage. He
suffered eXcruciating pain from this wound,
the splintered end of the bone piercing the
flesh.
In his leather belt which he wore was the
"Sic Semper TyraHDis' dirk, which he 50
trsgically brsndishedhpon the stage, with
ciOtted blood dried upon its blade. This
knife, his csrbine and two T, volvers, which
he also had upon his person, holding one in
his left hand at the time of being shot, and
while aiming his csrbine, we're all brought
to the Tribune building here and exhibited
at two o'clock, this A. NJ.
From the New York Herald, April 2sth ]
He was shot at about fifteen minutes past
three A. NJ, and died little after seven A.
N. on Wednesday. Previous to being
landed st the Navy Yard the body of Booth
was for time placed upon gunboat in
the hsrbor, and some of the officers svailed
themselves of the opportunity TO secure
locks of the hair of the murderer.
From the Washington Chronicle, April 2s.l
FLIGHT OF THE AssAssIBs.
Booth and Harold left here together
after the Assassination, and made their way
into Maryland, remained in the sWsmps
until the 22d inst, and then crossed eyer
into Virginis, via Swans point, landing at
Bluff Point. They chen took the road to
Port Royal, and finally to Bowling Green.
Harold, however, is the only one of the
two who went so far IS Bowling Green,
Booth stopping at CARROTS. where Har-
rold reiOiped him. Their evident intention
was to reach the mountains of East Ten
nessee, by the way of Orange Court house.
1t appears to be pretty well sscertsined
that when Booth slighted on the stage at
the theatre 8s he jumped from the box, he
broke the lesser bone of his leg little
above the ankle, and though the excite
ment of the moment drowned the pain,
when he began to ride, the broken bone
must have caused him excrucisting pain.
The leg was clumsily reset for him, and
with the help of erutches he made his way
through swamps and over roads, with death
for q jack-o'lsntern lighting him to the
barn at CARROTS. With party of Con
federate soldiers whom they met, he passed
himself of as a wounded officer, being
ashamed to own even to rebel that he
was q murderer, fleeing from human law
and national wrath.
Booth stopped at Gsrretts. Harold
went to Bowling Green; returned TO Gar
rett's, there had supper. Before they had
supper, party of csvalrymen, whose sp-
pesrsnce there the reader will understand
from our account of the pursuit, passed the
house, and Booth and Harold, as the cav
airy disappeared, made for the woods, in
which they remained till they came in to
supper. They evidently had no idea that
the cavalry would return there in the
night,,and believed that in the barn, if not
in the dwelling they would be IS safe as
in the woods. To this conclusion they
were in ali probability driven by thestrong
logic of physical suffering and unrest.
In that barn Booth had his crutches, rem
dered necessary TO him by the fracture of
his leg, and one seven-shooting rifle, one
revolver, carbine and b BOWEL knife; but
not the one he had on the eventful night
of the l4th of April, for that knife was not
3 bowie at all.