Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-10-25

versy concerning the Burial Of the
Assassin.
Tho Louisville (Ky.) Courier recently
published the following paragraph:
"Wilkss Booth, whose body Secretary
Stanton took 20 much pains to dispose Of,
20 that no man should ever know the spot
where il was buried, il reported to DO In
Europe. The story 10 that the man whom
Boston Corbett' 30 hsroically shot, and
whose body Stanton refused to exhibit to
any one that ever saw Booth. was . poor
wretch hired by the assassin to psrsonats
Booth in order to facilitate the escape Of
the latter. Whether there DO or be not
any truth in this story, it will never cease
to be q Suspicious circumstance connected
with the fate Of Wilkes Booth, that STAN
ton refused to deliver the body that was
brought up from Virginia to his friends,
or even to let them look upon it,"
Upon this the Cincinnati Union COM
ments:
Dating q couple Of 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 bssn
Of frequent occurrence. or course there
10 not 4 shadow Of truth in the tale Of
Booth being still alive. The body was
fully recognized a. being that Of Booth,
and although tales were told about it be-
ing taken secretly out to sea and sunk,
and others about it being buried At mid
night, in an obscure place, by two men
employed by Government, and who we're
sworn to secrecy, yet facts known to but
few, and carefully kept from the nswspa-
per press, show that the body was given
over to the relatives Of Booth, and that il
was buried either in New England or
Canada.
Tho facts, as we had them at the time
on authority not to be doubted, are a. fol-
lows:
"a few days before the body Of Booth
20 mysteriously disappeared, our inform
ant, q resident Of New York, and favora-
bly, known a. q dramatic author, wal
called upon after bank hours to cash the
draft Of an undertaken, . near nsighbor,
who stated that he had received an order
from the Booth family to repair to Wash
| ington with a coffin, and there to receive
the body OF John Wilkes Booth, which
would be surrendered to him on their or
der, and to convey it North for burial,
| The undertaken said he would return and
pass through Now York on Thursday
evening or Friday morning Of the Same
week.
1.-THE morning after the undertaken left
Washington, the repor, came by telegraph
that the body had mysteriously disap-
pearod-that it had been secretly buried
one report said in IN old fold, another in
tho pe~nitsntiary yard, and still another
that it had bsen taken to the sea and sunk.
1.-THE undertaken did not return to his
family until some days had elapsed. He
came from the North, but declined to give
any information relative TO the place
where John Wilkes Booth, under another
name, had been buried. Should It get
out, he said, tho grave would be violated
and the body removed, and the family
were naturally anxious that this should
not be.
These facts coming to Us from thu
source they did, are moro than sufficient
to convincs Us, not only Of the death o.
John Wilkes Booth, but that his body
with = pledge Of sscrsoy freely given and
fully kept, was given over to his family
for burial, and that, except the relatives
Of Booth and tho undertaken, no living
being knows where tho last remains Of
John Wilkes Booth gre inferred. No slat
marks the last resting place Of the assas-
sin. The man who dug the grave knew
not for whom il was intended, and in the
burial permit was inserted q false name.
In his unknown grave the assassin will
lie until the grave gives up its shsstsd
dead, and all are called to Judgment"
THA gays,t smilerI are often the sad