Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-15
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BIRMINGHAM, ALA, May 14.-Misi
Louise Worcester, who believes that John
Wilkes Booth still lives, left last night iol
Paris She will sail from New York in two
weeks, and after spending the summer with
q sister in Paris will 60 to Alexandria,
Egypt, then to Palestine, Jerusalem, and
on around the world, returning to the United
States in eight or ten months.
Several weeks ago The DISPATCH pub
lished history of this remarkable woman
and her reasons for believing that Wilkes
Booth was not killed in CARROTS barn, al
history would have the world believe. II
was mentioned that she spent most OF hel
time travelling over the world in the hope oi
meeting Booth in his exile. This explains,
in a measure, her trip to Paris and around
the world. In Paris she visits sister from
whom she has been separated many years,
but the remainder of her journey is not made
for pleasure.
Since the publication in The DISPATCH
of the first correct history of Miss Worcester
and her story Of Wilkes Booth your cor
respondent has gained some additional in
formation. This information accounts Tor
her visit to Egypt
MAY BE THE WHITE PAsHA.
Several years ago she was speaking to q
friend one day about Booth and telling her
reasons for believing that he was not dead
IF he is living, where do you suppose he
Is hiding?" asked her friend.
II do not know" she answered. after o
moments pause, "but he may be somewhere
in Egypt or Africa, A fortune teller, or
astrologist, told me once that Booth was in
Alexandria, Egypt, but OF course place no
reliance in that"
When the newspapers of Europe and
America were printing columns Of news
and conjecture about the mysterious "white
Pasha" in Africa, Miss W orcester one day
remarked to this same friend, "I believe
that mysterious white Pasha' is Wilkes
Booth. His love of adventure and daring
spirit would naturally lead him on some
such wild expedition IL he was anywhere In
that part of the world"
From these statements it is o reasonable
conclusion that she goes to Egypt and Africa
with vague idea that while journeyipg
through those distant lands she may some
where meet the "white Pasha" and find that
he is really the man she dreams Is still alive
Many amusing incidents have resulted
from the. publication OF Miss Worcester's
story, and she declares that one OF her rea-
sons for going abroad is to escape the no.
toriety it gave her. She has received hun
dreds of letters from cranks all over the
United States, some of them very amusing.
One man in California wanted to marry her.
He said he was so years old, owned valu-
able stock farm, had several thousand dol
lars in bank, and, if Miss Worcester would
consent to marry him, he would come at once
and make her his wife.
SOME NOVEL SUGGESTIONS.
A preacher in Texas wanted her to build
q mission church and call it "the Booth
Chapel" He wrote that she could not dis
pose of her fortune to better advantage and
could at the same time honor the memory
of the man she loved. A New York for
tuneteller wrote that he knew Booth was
alive, he had read it in the stars, and he
was trying by the aid Of the stars to learn
where he was hiding. Once he had almost
succeeded, but one of the stars in his COM
bination went wrong and he lost the trail.
He was still at work, however, and would
yet locate the missing assassin.
A Chicago detective offered to find Booth
for S5, 900 and expenses. He estimated that
the expenses of the search would not exceed
50, 900. The dime museum managers did
not overlook Miss Worcester, and she re-
ceived number OF dattering offers to sit be-
side the fat boy and the living skeleton.
The autograph fends. too, were heard from
by the score, and few cranks with plenty
of money offered her large sums for letters
or notes in the handwriting of Booth.
An enterprising private detective in this
city wrote to the War Department at WASH
ington offering his services as shadow to
follow Miss Worcester on her trip around
the world and if she met Booth to arrest him
on the spot. His offer was not even replied
to.
Miss Worcester answered none of the let
tiers she received.