Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1865-05-27

further and stepped again; Jctt went with |
Lieut.. Baker and myself to find the gate, |
while went back fer the cavalry. We re.
turned rapidly, and q guard was ytatfohed
round the building. When 1 went to the
house Lieut. Baker was telling come one to
strike light and come out, tiiink the door
was open; when got there the first indivi.
dual saw was a man, whose name was said
to be Garrett; l said to him, where are the
are gone" "Gone where Z" "Gone to the
woods" "Whereabouts in the woods have
they gone n He then commenced to tell me
that they came there without his consents
that he didn't want them to stay; l said, /
don't want any long stories from you, just
want to know where these men have gone;
he commenced to tell me over again the same
thing; l turned to one of my men and told
him to bring me lsriat, ard Threatened to
hang the man to a tree because he did not
tell me what he knewS one of his sons then
came in and said Don't hurt the old man, 1
will tell yca where the men ares" safa
THAT is what want to know" he said
"They are in the barn." and went to the
barn, and as soon as got there heard some
body walking on the hay. / stationed men
round the barn, and Lieut. Baker said to one
of the young CARROTS (there had two of them
appeared by this time) "You must go in the
barn and get the arms from this man." l
think ne made some objection to going; Ba-
kcr said he knew you, and you must go in;
Baker then said to the meu inside, that one
of the men with whom he had been step
ping was coming in to get their arms, and
they must deliver them up; Garrett went
in, but came out very soon, and said this man
says oh you! you nave betrayed me-"
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how he knew the man was going to shoot
him; nc said he reached down into the hay
and got his revolver; directed Lieut.. Baker
to tell the men inside they were to come out
and deliver themselves up, and if they did
not in five minutes we would fire the barn :;
Booth inquired, "Who are you; what do you
want-what do you want?" Lieut.. Baker
said, "We want you we know who you are !;
give up your arms and come out" Booth
replied, "Give us little time to consider"
Lieut.. Baker said, VERY we'll" Some ten
or fifteen minutes elapsed probably, before
anything further was said. Booth again
asked, "Who are you What do you want 2"
l said to Baker, do not by any possible in
timation or remark, let him know who we
arc; it he choose to take us for rebels or
friends, we will take advantage of it; we will
not lie to him about it, but will not answer
any question on that subject; simply insist
on his coming out if lie will Baker re-
piled to Booth, ut don't make any differ
encc VINO we arr, we know who you are, and
want you :" Booth said, This is hard, be.
cause it may be | an to bc taken by my
friends" Sometimes during the conversa-
tion, Booth said, Captain, l know you to he
a brave man. and believe you to be an honor
able one; have got but one leg am a
cripple; if you will withdraw your men one
hundred yards from the door, will come
out and fight you:' Lieut.. Baker replied, we
did not come here to fight; We simply come
to make You prisoner Once after that he
said, III you will take your men fifty yards
from the door, will come out and fight
Give me chance for my lile:' there was the
same reply, and then, with singularly the
atrical voice, Booth called out, well my
brave boys you may prepare stretcher for
me- l requested one of the Garrett boys to
pile some pine boughs against the barn; he
soon came to me and said, This man says if
put any more brush up there, he will put a
ball through me.' Very WELL said |, you
need not go there any more After a while
Booth said, There is q man in here who
wants to come out : Lieut.. Baker said, Very
well, let him take his arms and come out.
Some talk passed between them in the barn;
one of the expressions | heard Booth use to
Harold was, You id coward will you
leave Inc nowl But 90, 90! | would not
have you stay with me- Further words pass
ed between them which suppose had refer.
ence to bringing out arms, which was one of
the conditions on which Harold was direct
ed to come out; what the words were was not
heard; he came to the door and said, Let
me out;' Lieut.. Baker said to him, Hand out
your arms;' the reply was, L have nonc;' Ba-
ker said, you carried a carbine you must
nand it OUT Booth replied, the arms are
mine; have got them Baker said, this
man carried carbine and must bring it out.
Booth said, Upon the word and honor of a
gentleman the arms are mine, and have got
them told Lieut. Baker, never mind the
arms, but let the man out. Harold put ou.
his hands, and Lieut.. Baker took hold of
him and brought him out and passed him to
the rear: l then went round the barn, pulled
some straw out, and twisted little rope as
big as your finger, fired it, and stuck it back:
1t appeared to be loose broken hay that had
been taken up from the barn floor; it bazed
very rapidly and lit up the barn at once; /
looked through one of the cracks, and just
then heard something drop on the floor,
which supposed to be Booths crutch; when
l first noticed him his back was toward me :;
he was looking towards the front door. He
then came back within five feet of the corner
of the barn the only thing noticed he had
in his hand when he came was q carbne he
raised the carbine to his breast, and looked
along the cracks rapidly; hc then looked at
the fire, and from the expression of his face
am satisfied he looked to see if he could
put it out; but he could not, it was burning
too rapidly; STATED togo around to the
front of the barn, and when was about
around, heard the report of pistol; went
on round to the door, went in, and found
Lieut. Baker looking at him, and rather hold
ing or raising him up; | said he had shot
himself; Baker said he had not; l asked
where he was shot; he raised him up, and
the blood ran out of his wound; then said,
Yes, he had shot HIMSELF Lieut.. Baker re.
piled very earnestly, he had not said that
we must carry him out, or this will soon be
burning us; we took him up and carried him
out on the grass, little way from the door
beneath locust tree; l went a little back
into the barn to see if the fire could be put
out, but found it could not, and returned to
where he was lying; before this supposed
him to be dead; he had all the appearance
of dead man, but when came back, his
eyes and mouth were moving: | called i'm