Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-24
From the Cincinnati Union.l
Wilkes Booth HRss RkiS bend ROSlV,

The Louisville CourfeY. has the following /:
':Whkes Booth, whose body Secretary
Stanton took SO much pains 70 dispose OF
so that no man should ever know the spot
where IL WAS buried, Is reported to be in
Europe The story is, that the man whom
Boston Corbett so heroically 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 4his story, it will never cease
TO be a suspicious circumstance connected
with the tate 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 knpon it."
Dating u couple of months from the time
that Booth, the assassin of President Lin
coin, was shot aud killed by Bosto Cor
bett, in the attempt to capture him, sensa-
tion Stories like the above have been of fire.
qHenJ occurrence. OF course there is not
a sliadow OF truth in the tale OF Booth being
still alive. The body was fully recognized
as beihg that OF Booth, and although tales
were told about it'being secretly taken out
tosea and sunk, and Others about il being
buried at midnight, In an obscure place,
by two men employed by Government,
known TO but few, and carefully kept from
the newspaper press, show that the body
was given over to the relatives of Booth,
and THAI it was buried either in New Eng
land or in Canada. tlat
The facts, Us we had them at the time, on
authority not TO be doubled, are as fol-
lows:
AIew days before the body of Booth so
mysteriously disappeared, our informant. a
resident OF New York, and favorably known
as dramatic writer, was called upon, alter
bank hours, to cash the draft of an UNDER
taker, near neighbOr, who stated that he
had received an order from the Booth fam-
lily To repair 10 Washington with coffin,
aud there to. RECEIVE the body of John
Wilkes Booth, which would be surrendered
TO him on their order, aud to convey it
North for burial. The undertaken said he
would return, and pass through New York,
en- route with the body, on a Thursday
evening, or on Friday morning of the same
week. ....r .--- NJ
The morning after the undertaken left
Washington, the report came by telegraph
that the body had mysteriOusly disappear
ed-that 10 had been secretly buried-OHe
report said in an old field, another in the
Penitentiary yard, and still another that It
had been taken out 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 relative to the place where
John Wilkes Booth, under another name,
had been buried. Should it get out, he
said, the grave would be violated, and the
body removed, and the family were natur-
ally anxious that this should not be-
These facts coming to us from the source
they did, are more than sufficient to con-
vince us. not only of the death of John
Wilkes Booth, but that his body, with a
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
tile last resting place of the assassin. The
man who dug the grave knew not for whom
1t was intended, and in the burial permit
was inserted false name. In his un-
known grave, the assassin will lie until the
grave gives up its sheeted dead, and all are
called 10 Judgment,