New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-28
Wilkes Rooth ana hls Yseaa Rodv.
tFrom the Cincinnati Union

The Louisville Courier has the following
Wilkes Booth, whose body Secretary Stanton
took 50 much pains to dispose of, so that no man
should ever know the spot where it was buried, is
reported to be in Europe. The story is, that the
man who Boston Corbettn so heroicay shot,
and whose body Stanton refused to exhibit to any
one that ever saw Booth, was poor wretch hired
by the assassins to personate Booth, in order to
facilitate the escape of the latter. Whether there
be or be not any truth in this story, it will never
cease to De suspicious circumstance connected
wththe fate of Wilkes Booth, that Stanton refused
to deliver the body that was brought up from Vir-
ginia to his friends, or even to let them look
uponit.
Dating couple q months from the time that
Booth the assassin of President Lincoln, was shot
and killed by Boston Corbett, in the attempt to
capture him, sensation stories like the above have
been of frequent occurrence. Of course there is
not shadow of truth in the tale of Booth being
still alive. The body was fully recognized as be-
ing that of Booth, and although tales were told
about it being secretly taken out to and sunk,
and others about it being buried at midnight, in
an obscure place, by two men employed by the
government, and who were sworn to secrecy, yet
facts, known TO but few, and carefully kept from
the newspaper press, show that the body was
given over to the relatives of Booth, and that it
was buried either in New England or in Canada.
The facts, as we had them at the time, on au-
thority not to be doubted, are as follows:
a few days before the body Of Booth so mys-
terlously disappeared, our informant, a resident
of New York, and favoraby known as dramatic
writer, was called upon after bank hours to cash
the draft Of an undertaken, near neighbor, who
stated that be had received an order from the
Booth family to repair to Washington with 4
coffin, and there to receive the body of John
Wilkes Booth, which would be surrendered to
him on their order, and to convey it North for
burial. The undertaken said he would return, and
pass through New York, en- route with the body,
on Thursday evening, or on Friday morning Of
the same week.
This morning, after the undertaken left Wash
ington, the report came by telegraph that the
body had mysteriously disappeared-that it had
been secretly buried-one report said in an old
field, another in the pententiary yard, and still
another that it had been taken TO sea and sunk.
The undertaken did not return to his family
until some days had elapsed He came from the
North, but declined to give any information rela-
tive to the place where Wilkes Booth, under an
other name, had been buried. Should it get out,
he said, the grave would be violated and the body
removed, and the family were naturally anxious
that this should not be.
did, are more than sufficient to convince us, not
only Of the death of John Wilkes Booth. but that
his body, with pledge of secrecy freely given
and fully kept. was given over to his family for
burial, and that, except the relatives of Booth and
the undertaken, no living being knows where the
last remains of John Wilkes Booth are inferred.
No slab marks the last resting place of the assas-
sin. The man who dug the grave knew not for
whom it was intended, sand in the burial per
nit was inserted false name. In his unknown
grave the assassin will lie until the grave gives up
Its sheeted dead. and all are called to judgment.