Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-27

into q very desirable residence or business
property if it were in private hands.
A good deal has been written about
Booth which is utterly ridiculous. Every
now and then the story springs up that ne
has been seen alive somewhere. Nothing
is more improbable. Capt. Dougherty, VINO
captured him, tells me that the evidence
was abundant all along the route of Booths
flight that he was the assassin Of the Presl-
dent. The first clew that Capt. Dougherty
got was from two women on farm near
Port Royal. The husband of one OF them
seemed to know that the officers were in
pursuit of Booth Captain Dougherty put
him under arrest and took him with him.
They passed the Garrett House, in which
Booth sat, about three o'clock in the alter
noon. If Doughertys little command had
then surrounded the house, it is barely pos
sible that the course affairs took would have
entirely changed, and that Booth would
have been captured alive, in which case his
testimony would have doubtless thrown
great deal of light upon the event. Capt.
Dougherty went on to Bowling Green to
arrest one OF Mosby's Lieutpnants, young
man named Jett, who had gone there to
visit his sweetheart, and who, Capt. Dough-
erty knew, could tell where Booth was.
Jett and Booth were old friends, and Jett
had undertaken to help the assassin to get
away. But for the capture of Jett there IS
no telling when or where Booth would have
been taken. Jett wanted to get off to Mex
leo to Join Maximilian's army, and would
have started the next day. Harold went
on to Bowling Green with Jett and came
back in the afternoon and joined Booth at
the Garrett farm. Capt. Dougherty's COM
mand surrounded the tavern in which Jett
was sleeping, awaked him and made him
dress and go with them. About three
o'clock in the morning they reached the
Garrett farm. The CARROTS were greatly
distressed when they were reused up, and
declared they knew nothing of the wherea,
bouts of Booth. While the cavalrymen
were looking about the place, two of them
found one of the Garrett boys in corn
crib. They brought him in and he claimed
that he was there watching the barn where
"those two men" he'd gone to sleep, fearing
that they would get up in the night ano
steal some of their horses, which Booth and
Harold undoubtedly intended to 10. They
had shot their horses on the Maryland side
in order to escape from the Union cavalry
that was securing the country.
Surrounding the barn with his men Capt
Dougherty called out to Booth and Harolc
to come out They made no reply Tor some
time, but finally they were heard moving
about in the hay. At last Booth callet
out: "Captain, there's a man who wants
to surrender very bad" Capt. DoughertJ
told him to hand out his arms and come out
Booth replied that he had no arms, and in
moment Harold came to the door. Capt
Dougherty made him put both his WRIST
out the door, and they were quickly selze(
by cavalry man and he was jerked ou
and sent to the rear. a minute later one
Dougherty's command at the rear of tn
barn set fire to the hay, and in an instant tn
whole space was lighted up. Booth wa
seen standing on the floor in front of wha
appeared to be an old threshing machine
leaning on a crutch with his carbine hal
raised. Hardly Il moment later the repor
of carbine rang out and Sergeant Bosto
Corbett had given the assassin his deat
wound. When Capt. Dougherty rushed il
Booth stood leaning on his carbine just abou
TO fall to the floor. He was brought ou
and practically never uttered an articu
late word from that time on to his deatf
about seven O'Clock in the morning, a
though a great many writer's have under
taken to put words into the dying man
mouth. He once raised his hands and sal
something which sounded like 'useless.
He made no alusion to his mother, and di
not say that he had died for his country,
statement which would be doubly falls
, to apply to Booth. Capt. Dougherty seWe
. the assassn's body up in his horse blanke
hired an old negro with his cart to haul tn
e body where his steamer was awaiting hin
4 and next morning reached Washington
r Booths body was put on the iron-cla
e lfontauk and was later buried in the ol
', arsenal, and year later was taken up b
: his relatives and moved to Baltimor
Il where it now lies.
0 Here and there in Washington are preser
J. ed the hand-bills issued the morning att
S the assassination in which Secretary Stantc
!, offered $500 900 reward for the apprehenslc
of the assassns. Seventy-tive thOusar
!, dollars was offered for the arrest of Boot
n and that amount was divided among h
e captors. Most of them were Germans, ar
e all belonged TO the Sixteenth New 4ol
e Cavalry. Corbett'S act in firing on the
k sassin was severely criticised at the tim
|, and some wanted him arrested and coul
e martialed for it. Capt. Dougherty resolut
a ly met these demands and assumed all r
l. possibility for the shot.
d CuIIDREN's FEET AND SMALL SHOES.
if Too much cannot be said against the cruel
n of forcing children's feet into short and ma
h row-towed shoes. A man in large al
e fashionable shoe store said that he som
n times used all his strength, that of we
r. developed man, to force large feet in
Sc small shoes, for grown folks, but when
G, was requested by mothers to put shoes
" small on children he objected Many ch
te lren, before they are 10 years old, have
r, cipient cOrns, buniOns and callOuses, caus
n by the foolish pride or carelessness on t
g part of the mothers. Many do not knf
IF that if a child's foot is allowed to devel
le naturally, that when fully developed it
I'd wear with ease much smaller shoe tn
a when crowded back and forced out of sha
at while growing so fast. The foot is one
~ the parts of the body that completes
r. growth early. The size of the feet OF
I'd growing boy are sometimes noticeal
tn large; when the rest of his body has fins