Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-09-26
THEIR LAST HOURS.
DEATHBED SCENES OF LINCOLN
AND GARFIELD.
TIE Former Lived Nine Hours With
esut Pain ana the Latter SUI
fered Much

WIN the country stirred to sorrow by
Tfe passing from life Of President Nc
E4nley the Chicago Times-IIerald thus
v1gaIis the closing hours OF the two pre-
c.tSIBg martyred observation-disclosures
aFxs Garfield:
TIE leathbed scenes Of President Lin
-a3a and President Garfield bore little
similarity 10 each other. Mr. Lincoln
seCriVed n brain wound, the fatal ball
sZstginE under the right eye, after hav-
INK entered the skull in the rear, Had
John Wilkes Booth diagramned the
skull before he fred and determined
where he would produce certain, pain
Ess8 death he could not have more ac-
r0rately ended Mr. LincOln's career
THAN ne did The president never knew
yhat he was shot never knew what
hand had dealt him the blow never
sEfIe red during the last nine hours
Drior to his death.
He was shot in Fords theater. Wash
iBg1on, April IA, 1865, about 10 O'Clock
az night. Laura Keene was the parti-
sUlar star upon the stage, and she was
rsregenting Our American Cousin.
'Nhrn the shot was fired by Booth Pres
SCENT Ilnculn's head fell forward on the
Cushioned rail of the theater box Mrs.
LINCOLN and others bent over him. His
ilys were moving and there was a
rwItching of the hands but no speech.
tic was picked up in the bright play
hsagFe. now filled with terror-stricken
people. and stretched out on the floor
B}csa was coming from the back OF
afs head and he was deathly pale. His
eyes did not open. He made no sign
If life except as the heart feebly beat.
Surgeons Were Hopeless.
Surgeons came. surgeons who had lit
tIe of the technical knowledge of today.
They said he was dying, that he could
not Ar removed TO the white house but
rluat be taken to some place near by,
where instant attention could be given
bim The moon rose at 10 that night,
throwing It's light to the earth through
a Half-clouded sky. The effect was
weird in shadow and light Major Rath
bore and Captain Crawford directed the
carrying of the president out of the the
alter 20 a house just across the street. |
He uas laid upon a bed in a small room
AT The rear Of the hall, not even to
sile IN the place where -four glorious
years OF his life had been passed.
Mrs Lincoln followed. half distract |
Ell. tenderly cared for by companion. |
Miss Harris The surgeons bent over |
Ehe president but could do nothing for |
min 1t was "A derrnger bullet that had |
entered his brain, just rs a derringer |
Bullet ended Mr. Mckinley's life. John |
Hay. now secretary Of state. then Ma
ioF Hay, was sitting in an upper room
OF the white house with Robert Lin
cotn They were hastily called to No.
f53 Tenth street. where the president
lard
Lived Nine Hours.
The president remained unconscious
during the night His wound would
nave brought instant death to most
men. but his vital tenacity was extra
ordinary. His breathing came slow and
TegpiAr all through the long hours of
waiting for the end. At daylight his
palse began TO fail and the automat-
ic moaning which had gone on through
the night ceased A look of unspeak
abir peace came unou his worn features
AT - minutes after Z the morning of
April 10, ! 500, a little more than nine
hours after he was shot, Mr., Lincoln
gas nn more
Secretary stanton was the first to
break 1he silence by saying:
Now he belongs 10 the ages"
Rev Dr. Gurley knelt in prayer Mrs.
Lincoln came in from an adjoining
rs4om with her son and threw herself
apon the lifeless body with loud cry.
In the room when the president died 1
we're Surgeon Crane. Surgeon General
Harness. Charles Sumner Major Hay.
Secretary Welles. Secretary Stanton
and other prominent men of the times.
They turned away as the sobs of Mrs.
Lincoln rose above her dead.
Death of Garfield,
President Garfield was shot at $50 in /
the morning. July ?. 1881. by Charles J. !
Chilean The shooting took place in