New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-19
1Iposh's con Business"

Correspondence OF The ". Y. Tribune.
OIL CITY, Penn, Nay 10, l5G5.
As the public journals have been and are still
filed with paragraphs concerning Booths connection
with the oil business. il may prove interesting to loyal
people to learn that the War Department have
thoroughly examined this matter ard the following are
the Jjac,s estaS;,s..--a':c-;..
j. Wilkes Booth neyer was in the oil regions of Penn.
sylvana bat oaee and that was last Summer lie stayed
two DAYS at the Petroleum House in OIL City, and then
started as he said, for New-York. He Is traced 70
Salamanca and thence Buffalo whence 1t is supposed
he went into Canada. llo never purchased single
barrel Of oil anywhere in the whole OIL territory Of this
State never purchased owned rented lease well,
or parcel OF ground in the State Not single oil com
pany is vet found in which he held single share
or interest of any kind Not solitary individual cen
be found who ever sold him anything traded cr bar
tered with him for anything in the oil regions And
the most singular circumstance Is that not single ind
ydul can b. found in the oil cgicns OF Pennsylvania
who ever met Booth here and knew him al the time
As soon as it published hat Booth had been here
and Specializing aud not before this, one might hear
hundreds VI shaIlowpaed fellows. swelling themselves
up with gaseous Importance. eIcaimng that they knew
Booth we'll and had met him here a hundred times, wit
sed his purchase and al such stuff. But
| tho detectives of tie War Office reached here and
commenced arrcstng these fellows. and were about
scudng them 70 Washington as witnesses, their gas
bags suddenly collapsed and. pale and trembling, they
begged be e, oi saying hai y rere only taking
ore man Oh the cars the other night said very en-
phaiealy and 80 as 10 be heard by all, that Booth
owned well near Tiusy.e and that be knew all
abos, IT, The detectives Immediately stepped across
The car and said be tie very they were after
and that he would epan in the cars en- Toae to Wash
ingion rs a wines, N the trial The fellow turned
deadly pale. his under jaw shaking like an aspen boush
and as soon he could speak he declared that be Knew
nothing himself only what he heard boatman ON OIL
! Greek say and that be did not know the boatman 5
name and coald not identify him now. Thus has II
been with al the and all the reports as to his
On Business. :" and Just here Jet say that the men
knowing he bad no business here. at once saw an
other meaning Ia bs brothers expression, "Oh Bgs-
ness and tho fall OF Richmond
Another lie was started, doubtless by interested
parties. that Booth had written with a diamond on
pane OF glass at the McIIenTy House in Meadvie that
President Lincoln died II poison &C. No such inscTp
ton written by Booth. and no such pane OF glass
can be- found II the idea no, originated by inter
cs,od parties rs IS than probable, II had its origin
in the brain ~ such fools the detectives have already
examined and silenced.
II remains only 20 he added that tho Records having
been thoroughly examined II does not appear that j.
wilkes Booth owned any real personal. or mixed
property within tie limits Of any Of the oil counties OF
the State. TRUTH.