The National tribune., 1880-03-01
The Death of j. wilkes Booth.

the detachment that captured Booth and Harold after
assassination of President Lincoln and that officers story
and its result appears in the Picdyune of August 49, The
story of the surrender of Harold and the shooting of
Booth in barn Bowling Green is told follows:
Aer Garrett had designated the direction of the barn.
Captain Dohery said to Sergeant Boston Cobett, Dis
mount your men, detail few to watch the house, and
bring the remainder here Captain Doherty then
rounded the barn with his men, and going the front
door, placed lighted candle which he had held in his
mana for some me near the 'front.' entrance oil the oarh
and in the vicinity of large crack opening Unlock
ing the door, Captain Doherty called upon those in the
barn to out and surrender but made
to this and subsequent frequent loud demands of like
character Captain Doherty then passed around among
his sentinels who )unded the barn, when in
formed that whispering and the moving of hay had been
heard from the inside
Captain Doherty then said If you don't come out
I'll set fire to the building and burn you out AS there
TO this, Captain Doherty then ordered
Corporal Newgarten pile shavngs and hay in the
opening and set fire to it. While he png it up
voice said to the corporal If you back there I'll
put bullet through you Captain Doherty, who
standing near Newgarten, then quietly ordered him to
desist and determined to wait till daylight before making
any further demonstrations
''At this time quite long conversation occurred be-
tween Captain Doherty and j. Wilkes Booth The former,
after hearing the threat of the latter called again for
surrender when Booth replied Who do you take for?
Captain Doherty responded 1t don't make any differ
ence who take you for I'm going to arrest YOU Then
Booth said Boys, fetch stretcher another stain in
our glorious banner.
'Waking around the barn and returning the door,
Captain Doherty heard whispered conversation between
Booth and Harold from the inside. Booth then said
aloud crippled and alone, give chance for my
come out
Captain Doherty replied Il didn't come here to fight
but to capture YOU have fifty here and do it,
In the meantime Harold had approached the door
when Captain Doherty said to him, Let me see your
hands, when Harold put both hands out through the
door, and Captain Doherty seizng them handed Harold
over to the corporal at the door.
while this conversation going on and Captain
Doherty in the of taking Harold out of the front
door, the barn had been fired in the The flames
burst suddenly forth Booth who had left his position
the barn to the right of the opening referred above
the candle took position in the center of the barn
facing the door and raising his carbne pointed it in the
direction of Harold and Captain Doherty when Sergeant
Corbett, who stationed of the openings the
barn to the left of Booth observing the eveed
largeszed Colts revolver at Booth and fired intending
to hit him in the for the purpose of disabling him.
but the ball entered his neck about inch from the
same point that Booth shot President Lincoln
Son hearing the shot, and being at the time ignorant
of the movement intention of Booth Captain Doherty
supposed that he had shot himself rather than surrender
when the officers rushed into the barn. and by the light
the burning building Booth with the carbine between
his legs OF his cruches having dropped and Booth in
the act of falling forward, when Captain Doherty caught
him with both around the body and carried him out
side of the barn and LAID him down. but the heat becoming
too intense CAPTAIN Dohery ordered him removed under
the veranda of the Garrett mansion.
Soldiers then dispatched in different directions
for doctors, but only one, Dr. Urquar could be found
he arrived about m, and after probing the wound
pronounced fatal the ball having ranged upward cut
ting vital part.
"From the time Booth was shot, FIVE o'clock to the
time he expired two hours later he spoke but once and
that was to Captain Doberty shortly before six o'clock
when he said to him, Hands Captain Doherty lifted
up his hands, when Booth looked at them for instant
and, shaking his head, exclaimed Useless useless
short time after this he became unconscious and
mained until he expired
Captain Doherty, after wrapping the body of Booth
i'll his saddle blanket sewed the blanket together with his
own hands, and having placed the body cart which
obtained from Old negro residing about two miles
distant proceeded with the body and the prisoner Harold
to Belle Plain where the Ide awaiting the return of
the command which arrived at D. m when the Ide pro
ceeded Washington where the body of Booth and the
prisoner Harold, turned to the officers of the
having received orders from the department
do This was at three O'Clock the morning Of the
twenty-seventh.
" In reference to the different statements that Booth
captured killed, and that he is alive to-day,
Captain Doherty says that is the sheees in the
world as, in the first, place Captain Doherty knew j.
Wilkes Booth personally and in his company the
National Hotel in Washington about two months previous
to the assassination. In the second place. at the post
mortem examination held the twenty of April
Booth fully identified by DR.. May, his attending
physician who had performed operation upon his