The times., 1898-04-15
ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN.
1t Occurred Thirty-Three Years Ago
Last Night.

Thirtv-three years ago last night tragedy was
enacted at the old Ford Theater, in this city
that literally shocked the world and took from
America one OF her greatest and best statesmen
It was the assassination OF Abraham Lincoln at
the hands OF John Wilkes Booth
President and Mrs Lincoln occupied the upper
box on the right side OF the stage of the theater.
The play of the evening was 'our American
Cousin 1t interpreted by a company
headed by Laura Keene Actor John Wilkes
Booth during the progress OF the play made his
wav from the rear OF the stage to the box OF
the President He fired at Mr.. Lincoln and jump
ed from the box to the stage One OF the spurs
ON his foot caught in the fringe OF the silk drap-
ing of the box and Booth thrown, re-
ceiving a fracture of his ankle. He regained his
feet and rushing across the stage with an up
lifted dagger shouted ''Sic Semper Tyrannis,
and disappeared in the wings on the opposite
side.
He was met in the alley in the rear OF the
playhouse by d. +. Herold, with two horses
The fugtives crossed the Long Bridge, and at
Mrs Sarratt's tavern. twelve miles from Wash
ington, in Prince George County, were furnished
with arms, whisky and a field glass. At day
light they reached the house OF DR.. Samuel A.
Mudd, thirty miles from this city, near Bryan
town, Nd, and remained there until o'clock in
the afternoon, during which time DR.. Mudd set
Booths broken leg.
In the meantime the bells of the country an
nounced with melancholy tolling the death OF
the President. Immediately after the shooting
President Lincoln was carried across the street
to the house now occupied By NJ oldrpyd and
owned by the Government In a short time the
councillors of the President and intimate friends
were at his side Mr. Lincoln died during the
night.
On the night of the 10th Booth arrived at the
house of Samuel Cox and was concealed by him
in Il pine thicket where for six days he fed
On the night of the 23d Herold put Booth 4
horse, and accompanying him on foot, they
reached the Potomac River and crossed on a
boat They proceeded to Port Conway, on the
Rappahannock, in wagon, secured on the
Virginia side, and there fell in with Capt. w. S.
Jett and Lieut. Ruggles OF Mosbys command.
They crossed the river to Port Royal and Jett
arranged that Herold and Booth should be taken
care of at Garrett's farm house, three miles
from Port Royal
The next night Capt Conger, who had been
sent from Washington with the Sixteenth Cav
airy, ascertained that Capt. Jett knew of the
whereabouts of Booth Jett accompanied him
and his command to CARROTS farm, arriving
there at , O'Clock in the morning. Demands
were made that Booth and Herold surrender.
Hcrold out of the Garrett barn, cursed by
Booth, and was gagged and tied to a tree. Booth
refused leave the barn, and daring the soldiers
to enter, the latter forced to set fire TO the
barn. Bosom Corbett, cavalryman, approached
the barn, and firing a bullet through a crack
shot Booth in the neck Booths body was taken
from the burning barn and brought back to
Washington. The remains were kept for day
on the monitor Montauk, which lay in the Poto-
mac River, and at midnight they were buried
under the floor of a cell in the old capitol prison
at the arsenal. The body afterwards re-
moved to Greenmont Cemetery, Baltimore.