Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-19
John WILKES BOOTH.
interesting History Of His Flight, Cap
ture and Death:

Interesting History OF His Flight, Cap
ture and Death:
A newspaper correspondent has been
visiting the locality where John Wilkes
Booth was captured and killed i'm 1865.
It was on the Garrett Farm. not far
from Port Royal. Va. One Of the Gar
rett daughters tells the story 90 the
newspaper interviewer as follows:
shall be glad TO tell you anything
/ know. she said pleasantly, but / was
little girl then, scarcely 9 years old,
yet most Of the striking things about
his stay. can remember as II IL were yes
terday. / shall never forget the day he
came TO our house. IL was about two
or three o'clock i'm the afternoon, and
the man who brought him said that
he was wounded confederate soldier.
and asked father 90 take care of him
until he got so that he could travel.
He was very lame and went about upon
n rude pair Of wooden crutches. He
talked very little. and remember dis
tinctly that he impressed me as being
contantly sad. lie spent great part
Of his time out I'm the front yard under
The trees on know he was here less
than two days-but we children
were about him nearly all the time.
or course we were full of romp and
frolic, and sometimes he would at
tempt 10 be cheerful and encourage as
I'm our play. My little baby sister.
then 4 years old he took a great fancy
10. and used to pet her a great deal,
but the rest Of us he paid little atten.
tiOn TO and when we would make a
noise he would seem disturbed and say.
"Please keep quiet" / remember one
very interesting incident that occurred
when he was here. He was lying
prone upon the grass in the front yard.
and we were all playing about him. |
grabbed him by the arm in the game,
and accidently pushed his shirt sleeve
sp TO the elbow, and there upon the
forearm saw tattooed the letters, 81.
w. b."
"Ohl What are those letters on there
forP" / said, quickly.
"Why. child. those are the initials of
my name-James w. Boyd"
l remembered then that the man
who had brought him had introduced
him as Mr.. Boyd, and probably would
have forgotten the circumstance but
for the startling events which rapidly
followed IL. He had very little TO say.
He talked more TO my little sister than
TO any one else. lie called her his lit.
Tie blue eyed pet, and at the last meal
he took with us she sat beside him in
her high chair We were all gathered
around the table. and she began to
make noise; mother spoke up quite
sharply at her, and she burst into tears.
Booth ut once began soothing her, and
said. "What, is this my little Blue.
eyes crying" / remember that while
we were at dinner the last day that
Booth was here, brother Jack came in
with the paper containing the an
nouncoment of Lincoln's assassination.
As soon rs he opened the door he said /:
"The president has been murdered, and
there has been 100000 offered for the
capture Of the assassin" Brother
Will, who sat next to Booth, said !:
"How wish he would come this way
and | could catch him.
Booth turned quickly upon my broth.
or and said: would you betray him
for 100000 IL you knew him p
Brother viii made some light reply.
and Booth turned away and finished
his dinner I'm silence.
Did he ever speak Of the assassina-
tion Of the presidentY
He referred 90 II only once. and
never until brother Jack brought the
news. Then he said he had heard Of
II the day before he come TO our house.
but did not believe Il.
Did he seem disturbed OF uneasy any
time during his stay2
In the afternoon OF the second day
Harold came TO our house. and Booth
seemed to be very much disturbed by
his arrival. and took him out TO the
left Of the house near the fence and
had n long conversation with him. lie
then come back 10 the porch. and was
standing there i'm his shirt sleeves when
the soldiers who afterward tried to
arrest him passed down the road to-
ward Bowling Green. He then seemed
very much worried. / was standing
on the porch near my father, who said
to him: "You seem very much excited.
Have you been doing anything that
makes you afraid of the soldiers? IL
you have you will have to find some
other place to stay.
"Oh, no." replied Booth. II did get
into little difficulty in MARYLAND. and
one man believe was killed but n
was nothing with which the soldiers
could possibly have anything 10 do
He seemed 50 restless, however. that
u caused remark, and few moments
after the soldiers passed ne and Harold
walked of toward the woods and Ala
not come back until nearly dnsE 7
was the hrst one of the children ont
after father was arrested. Father erS U
mother slept in this very room wbsra ,e
you are now sitting, and he was avail
ened by a noise at the door which
leads out toward the servants onsr'
ters. He opened the door and the soi
diers at once grabbed him and DuIIod
him out into the yard. They Stationed
a soldier In the door, and thew would
not let any OF US out, or let ma hand
father any Of his clothes. for fear as
they said, that we would pass him a re-