The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-05-17
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A nrcdieal man. writing to the Plisledol-
phia Press, gives tho fslEJ~iny sseotnt u
Booths last horrs:
Booths wound shd icslk We're so pecu.
har that they desctte notice and attention.
A post inortcm eSohSiftati0 was made, but
the result has not buen pubhahed; YET!
sHffceh, is known t6 euabic us 10 state
wlrit we're the patls injured his sufIefiugs,
and his painful, hottid dea,h.
fho bali from tho Cavalry revolver en.A
terod on tho leit sjde, fAdbk If tle head and
below II and pissed out on tho right side.
lie fell hclpless unslss unNlh6 10 move, ex.
claiming: II am Finished |" 10 was car
ricd out Of Tire brrning btth afrvf laid upon
slie grass. aud survived TITO wound four
hours. lie requested several tinnee % bV .
turned, or moved from sido 10 side, on HE.
stomach, aud asked to see his hands
When raised, he gs2od Hpon tho hch,leet,
dewl mcmbers exclaiming; "Uscless-- use-
isss," Hti asked moro than once of those
about l;lm tic kill him" thus to end lis
pain and sulerHgs.
From these Statements from fhoEe who
were about him ard Witnessed the "lussy
doctor p'vhs Mis- @Ohnd. we knew that h0
had { wound of the spinal eOfd about tho
secSnd vertical vertrlfd Which was doubt.
loss fraetureH' Such wound would pro-
dEce complete parai sis Of the arms, legs;
and kwcr portion ot ,l,o trunk; while res-
piratiOn and Tie action of tho heart wouli
continues rs the nerves WHIST proceed To
those organs pass off front ttt0 Elaniuni anil
not from the spinal cord. tlf6 niiiid was
clear and undistubed, save from the shock
OF the wound anal pain; but tho BRAN WAS
uniniurcd. II was n living, active mind,
with dead, hcll less bv,ly. with the most
excruciating, agonizing pain thst huma,i
body can bo subject to. We once saw ala
oiiccr with q similar wound lower down
IN the spinoi his snilerings were terrible;
| aud he prayed and imporod al about him
to "kill him" aud end his misery.
Ia Booths case the n,Tves Of organic life,
respiration and circulation were uniniured {
aud tho only mlSsCles over which ho could
exert any yolition were those of the head
and face. From the momont tho ball strucle
him he was dead and helpless, with a mind
clear, in intense suffering, a living witness
! OF his own iuat punishment for his afro.
| oious deod. Was there not tile atonging
hand of God upon him from the tttument hS
exclaimed upon the stage at Fords Thea.
ter, 81 am avengedG" IN the lcap ,ipon the
stage the fbulut the small bone Of the Icy,
was fractured. For ten days aud nights
| the forests aud tho swamps were his home,
with pain, ud dread, aud augEish. When
discovered the barn was fred; before him
sea Of i,nIcj ready tU engulf him; and at
that Instant he received his peculiar, his
wonderful wound, which we have do.
scribed Could iho end Of such lie been
more painful, moro dreadful; nicfc appall.
ingI Was thore not in it all tbs hniid uI
an oyerruliug Provjencs7
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