The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-11
CAPTURING WILKES BOOTH.
Baltimore Herald.

Baltimore Herald.
 "We a, once surrounded the barn." said Captain |. r. D ,hersy. "aAi went to tae door and u,e to open It. bat Il was locked with a paddock Young Gar. uetI had the key to the p Adlock sitA hun, and, when be unlocked t called out to the men lns,de:
 "' have come here to take yoa. ! know who you are, and l want you. II l you do not come out. lave men enough to take you. dead or alive
 1 " A, htst there sAx no auswSi. Flu ally, In loud, strong voIce, Booth replied :: Who arc you, and what do you want l sad: Its no matter shat ~e want :; deliver up your arms and surrender your selves,
 . He called out again Who are you ? replied That makes no difference. We know who you are, aud we want yoa. l have fifty men here armed, and you cannot get away
 Booth made some answer about his being captured by hls trends, and lhen he asked for time to think the thing over i Finally sad 10 him. We have waIed long enough II is tune for you 10 sur render bsoth called out; an crip- pied and alone Take your men back ] fifty yards from the door and w,ll come out You ought to give me chance for my life
 told him tha, we had not come 10 hght. bat to capture hIm. and he had bet ter come out. Alter a while Booth cAlled : There IS a man here wants to surrender, and wants lo surrender awful bad Al thIs II HArold Cane out to the door and said; Let me out. want to sur render l sad, Hand out your Arms, ana Booth sad he had no arms took my pistol and to d Harold 10 pu, both hands out at the door He d,d so, and | caugh, hIm and pulled him out Thea Booth made some stAge.Ike speech ,ha, could no, distinctly unders,and, but I remember he said: Boys. prepare a ssretcher for me. Another man IS slain under our glorious banner A few mn. utes later he called ou, to me aga,n 10 take my men from Uound the barn and eIve hlm a chance for his life. Just a, tha, moment somebody. whether one oi my men or one of the detectives 1 am mol sure. lit a match and dropped it in the straw in the rear of the barn. In an instant the whole plac. vas ligh'ed up We saw Booth standing on the floor Of the barn lean,og over his ctu,ch. Ca the ! floor was the straw, and outlining Booth as he stood there giArng around as ,f trying 10 see us on the outside l 60 not think he intended to shoo, a, us, but had made up his mind to kill himself. It wAs hardly a moment after the Ire burs, out before Booth dropped his crutch and took hts oarblne ID both hands, still eiafing about the barn, and really looked as II he were about to shoot. Al this instant we heard shot. Booth gave yell and for the moment stood with the carbine be- tween his legs. his head ben, over the butt. and then, as he was about to fall, caught him under the arms and pulled him out of the barn. S,pe one called out, He has shot himse and n vas for some tune my impressson that that was the case But Sergeant Boston Cosbesi soon told me that he had shot, intending only 10 disable Booth's arm
 Booth lived 4hoa, 70 hcarz took the blanket od my horse, se~ed him up in rt, took an old negro w,th hm cart and returned to Belle Pls,ne, where the steamer !. $. lde, Captain Wilson, vas waiting ior me resurned to Washingtou with the eorpse of Booth and David E. Harold as prisoner and al ] o'clock .. m, on April It h. 1883, turned both over 10 the naval asshontiea in charge of the iron-oiad monitor Montaak at the navy yard
 Booth had on an old business suit haack, with htfle white spotA h his pockets were a los of httie onions. 4 diary vas in one pocket did not read II carefully. Several pages had been written after the assassination. He al- luded to him self as the greatest patriot known 10 modern higory. 1 turned the diary over to the war department. think i, was never published.
 The prne mo1ey of S7S GOO was d. yided on the plan goversins the dissribe. lion of prize money in the navy. 1 ~as reg arded as a captain Of vessel passing from one squadroo to another, and 'uak- ing a capture on the way. received E 800. Colonel Baker s375o, Couges & 900 L B Baker S ooo. C,rbe.; ssd the other sergeant Sz s4s; seven eorporals got E. 2of, and e1gnbeea pnvzses got S7 o63 Nearly all the zen live nov near Pstts ourg, N. Y., where they invested thesr money in farm% live in Louis,aaa, and am engaged on govern mens work % the Red river. am happy to say have mult'piied my share of the S7S 900 sev- er2 times" Bro. Roundtree Tells His Experience