Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-07-03
THE CAPTURE or BOOTH.



Gagged 1m . E8arn HHnrold,s surrender
The Hsmwm Fired - BO0Gh shot
Demd esiah Carbfme Am Hand.
Captain Il. n D0herty. who was with
The Federal force which pursued J.
Wilkes Booth, tells in the Baltimore
Herald how LincoIn's assassin was cap
tured in the barn on Carrots place
We at once surrounded the barn, said
Captain E. 2. Doherty. and went 20
the door and tried to open Il, but il was
locked with paddock Young Garrett
mad the key TO the paddock with him.
and, when he unlocked il, / called out
10 the men inside:
have come hero to take you. !
know who you are, and want you. II
gou do not come out have men enough
10 take you, dead or alive
sAt first there was no answer. Finally,
IN loud, strong voice, Booth replied !:
Who are you. aud what do YOU wantT
81 said It's no matter what we want;
deliver up your arms and surrender your
selves
lie called out again: Who are your
i replied That makes no difference.
We know who you are, and we want
yon | have fifty men here armed, and
you cannot get away
Booth made some answer about his
being captured by his friends, and then
he asked for time to think the thing
over. Finally said to him: We have
waited long enough; it is time for you
10 surrender. Booth called out: i am
crippled and alone. Take your men back
City yards from the door and will come
out You ought to give me chance for
NY Iife.'
i told him that we had not CONC to
light, but to capture him, and he had
better come out. After while Booth
called: There is man here wants to
surrender, and wants to surrender awful
bad.
AT this, Hasold came out to the door
and said Let me out. want to sur
render / said, Hand out your arms,
and Booth said he had no arms. took
my pistol and told Harold to put both
hands out at the door. He did so, and
caught him and pulled him out Then
Booth made some stage-like speech that
could not distinctly understand. but
remember he, said: Boys, prepare q
stretcher for me. Another man is slain
under our glorious banner A few
minutes later he called out to me again
TO take my men from around the barn
and give him q chance for his life.
Just at that moment somebody, wheth-
er one of my men or one of the
detectives, / am not sure, lit a
match and dropped it in the straw in the
rear of the barn. In an instant the whole
place was lighted up We saw Booth
standing on the floor Of the barn leaning
over on his crutCh. On the floor was the
straw, and then outlining Booth as he
stood there plaring around us If trying
TO see us on the outside. do not think
he intended to shoot at us, but had made
up his mind to kill himself Il was hard
" moment after the fire burst out be-
fore Booth dropped his crutch and took
his carbine In both hands, still glaring
about the barn, and really looked as ii
he were about to shoot AT this Instant
we heard shot. Booth gave Il yell. and
Tor the moment stood with the carbine
between his legs, his head bent over the
butt. and then. as he was about to fall.
caught him under the arms and pulled
him out Of the barn. Some one called
out He has shot himself, and it was FOR
some time my impression that that was
the case. But Sergeant Boston Corbett
soon told me that he had shot, intending
only to disable Booths arm.
Booth lived about two hours took
the blanket of my horse, sewed him up
In IL, took an old negro with hiscart and
returned to Belle PLANE, where the
steamer i s. Idle, Captain Wilson, was
waiting for me; returned to Washing
ton with the corpse of Booth and David
E. Harold as prisoner, and at three 4.
NJ, on April 90, 1865, turned both over
to tho naval authorities in charge Of the
iron-clad monitor Montauk at the Navy
Yard.
Booth had on an old business suit
black, with little white spots. In his
pockets were q lot Of little onions. A
diary was in one pocket did not read
it carefully. Several pages had been
written after the assassination. He allu-
dcd to himself as the greatest patriot
known to modem history: / turned the
diary over to the war department. ]
think Il was never published,
The prize money Of SIS, 600 was di.
vided on the plan governing the distri.
button of prize money IN the navy.
was regarded IS q captain Of a vessel pas.
sing from one squadron 10 another. and
making capture on the way. 1 received
81, 500, Colonel Baker $S, $50, C0ngcf
$4,000. L. b. Baker "a. 600, Corbett and
the other sergeant $2.565, seven corDor-
ais got s.. e3I, and eighteen privates got
So, o03. Nearly all the men live now
near Plattsburg, n. T., where they In
vested their money in farms. / live n