The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-11-06
JOHN WILKES BOOTH
STARTLING PUBLICATION
TO BE MADE.

Birmingham, Ala., Oc'ooei ~
Walking up First avenue TO-DAY
your correspondent was met oH
well.known book dealer, "ho salu
There is to be sent to the pun
fishers soon IA book giving com.
rlete history of the lite OF Jonn
Wilkes Booth, incidents Of the klli'
inc of L ncoln, and where Booth
vent after the killing, together
with the positive proof that he Is
alive TODAY. The book Will De
sent from Birmingham"
The author was found. AL nlS
roonest his name is withheld. lie
ouaned his desk aud produced let,
tar after letter, with documents OF
? different kinds bearing the post
!. mark of Cairo, Egypt, JapaA anu
other foreign points. Among o'ntl
letters we're photographs OF Bootl
in different COSTUMES
Prmluciug a letter bear NC Ill
Epyliian pOst-mark, he SAID
"ihat letter is from j. " IKE
Booth that proves beyond to
shadow of a doubt the fact that b
is alive and well this moment"
"Did you read the article IN th
Atlanta Constitution few day
II. sluce giving an luterview with NJ
r. j. r. Ford, one of the proprietor
No. of Ford's Opera House, in whlc
. Lincoln was shoti Ford said th'
Booth
WAS POSITIVELY DEAD,
and he saw him laid out, wrappt
Ia in a Government blanket, aud kne
his face we'll" =,
s.I saw the article hut it was Il
same old story. | am preparing
AG- AG hooL 10 be sent to the publishers
few days that will be a levelatl'
on that subject =
ssYou don't mean to say YOU "
49,. attempt to prove the assertion tu
,ach Booth is aliveP
very "Tbat will be the purpose ot t
end work. Major jet, n promine
cotton broker of Austin, Tex
was serving in the Couiedcr'
!. R. service, and knew EoOth W.
fore I.tt Is now living, aud vii subSt;
nday tiate all that the work VIII conta
M was the man who Hentif
Rooth and Herold when th1y W
On the fat crossing the Rapplh
nock river. Jett exposed tue t
,.+or mon. and Eas paid handsomely
meet doing II. He knew They were
the ones wanted, but hated Linc
ster, teah and played the authorities tof
he was worth.
mas The night OF the shooting Bo
onrth h.d hired on Irishman 10 lmper'
'etins ate him for $1,000. The man h'
horse outside waiting, and "
Rooth left the opera house
> No mom,te,l the animal aud vas ia
nrday ac,oss Etuacos;a creek. There
e, D.; twn men changed clothes,
yl' I'M = Booth.
III nj DISGUISED AS AN lRTsHMAN
-Ds. returued to Washington.
:, datement that Booth broke hl
A. a. M M when he Jumped is not true.
NJ man has ever seen the corpse
J. W. a broken leg. The night the kl
sec'yi Rooth slipped in the foundry 0
J. ~ sculptor mills and slept. TIE
:. 1ss- morning he was on the street
each euised as common Irish lau
J. W He spent a week in the city
was posied all about the e
meat aud what was done TO
3 IN. him. When IN the barn, III
Who was on the inside, shont'
m. and Rostou COrbett that Booth vi
...;,,ea Ia the barn, aud the man who
10 D m. ed like him was ouly playl
of after part. Stanton knew It wa
Booth when he paid over the
lis. reward, TOR he secured n porl
m. and the money. The next hea
n. and Booth he was in LeaVen
Kansas, where he got on
: e''nos sprre. He next turned up IN
Departs nhjs. Tenu., where be was al
3 m - Tor being drunk. | was IN As