The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-15
ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN.
Ii Occurred Thirty-Thrce Years Age
Last Night.

| Tbirtv-tbree wears ago last night tragedy wa
enacted at the old Ford 1heater, IN this city
| that literally shocked the world, and took from
| America one Of her greatest and best statesmen
| 1t was the assassination Of Abraham Lincoln a
the hands of John Wilkes Booth.
| President and Mrs Lincoln occupied the uppel
box on the right side Of the stage of the theater
| The ulav Of the evening Our American
| Cousin" Il was interpreted by company
| headed hv Laura Keene- Actor John Wilkes
! Booth during the progress Of the play made hl'
| wav from the rear 81 the stage 10 the box OF
| the President He fred 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, aud Booth was thrown, re-
ceiving a fracture of his ankle. He regaincd his
| feet and rushing across the stage with an up
lifted dagger. shouted ''Sic Semper TyTanns.
and disappeared in the wings On the opposite
side.
He was met in the alley in the rear Of the
rlavhousc by D. f. Herold, with two horses.
The fugitives crossed the Long Bridge. and at
Mrs Surratt's tavern, twelve miles from Wash
iupton. in Prince George County, were furnished
with arms, whisky and 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
10 the house now occupied by NJ. oldrpyd and
owned by the Government. In 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 a pine thicket. where for six days he was fed
On the night of the 23d Horold put Booth on Il
horse, and accompanying him on foot. they
reached the Potomac River and crossed on
boat They proceeded to Port Conway, on the
Rappahannock, in a wagon secured on the
Virginia side. and there fell in with Capt. W. s
Jett and Lieut. Ruggles, of Mosby's command.
They crossed the river TO Port Royal and Jett
arranged that Herold and Booth should be taken
care Of at CARROTS farm house. three miles
from Port Royal.
The next night Capt. Conger, who had been
sent from Washington with the Sixteenth Cav
airy, ascertaned that Capt. Jett knew of the
whereabouts of Booth. Jett accompanied him
and his command to CARROTS farm, arriving
there at 2 o'clock in the morning. Demands
made that Booth and Herold surrender
Herold came out of the Garrett barn, cursed by
Booth, and was gagged and tied to a tree. Booth
refused to leave the barn, and daring the soldiers
to enter, the latter was forced TO set fire TO the
barn. Bosom Corbett, a cavalryman. approached
the barn, and firing 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 cell in the old capitol prison
at the arsenal. The body was afterwards re-
moved to Greenmont Cemetery, Baltimore.