The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-07
VICTIMS OF ASSANOINN
Mr.. Mckinley the Third President
to Fall Under the Bullet.

The killing of Lincoln and Garfield
Observation-Disclosures of Their Taking
On-SOme of the Most Notable Old
World Grimes of the Anarchists.
President Mckinley is the third Exec
utivc Of the Federal Government % fail
under the bullet of the assassin. Both
Abraham Lincoln and James A Garfield
died from their dastardly inflicted wounds,
and have their names inscribed upon the
national calendar OF martyrs The sad
details of the fatal shooting of each of
these rulers of the country have been Wv
idly recalled 10y the terrible crime at Buff
falo. and f. may be worth while TO mar
rate again the main facts concerning
those past Presidential assassinatous.
The shooting OF Lincoln 10y John Wilkes
Booth was the more sensational, in view
of the troubled state Of the Government
al Washington, and was highly dramatic
in manner Of accomplishment The addi-
tioUal feature that Booth was the head
of "a sort of conspiracy gave to the mar
tyrdom Of Lincoln peculiar political sig
nihCanCe which most assassinatiOns Of
modern history have lacked. When Lin
coin went to Washington to take the
oath of Office as President the air was
rife with fears o. an attempted assassi-
nation OF the neEro's friend" But Hon
est Abe" pass through the grim ordeal
Of the civil war without an attempt on his
life, and fell a victim to the assassin in
the very hour OF seeming triumph and
restored peace. on April ii, 1860. General
Anderson had raised over Fort Sumter
the tattered flag he had hauled down just
four years before The North was rejoic-
ing that the war was over, when, sud
denly, the news flashed throughout the
land that Lincoln had been murdered.
WHEN LINCOLN WAS STRICKEN.
On the night Of that same April Il the
wearied President had sought a slight di-
version from the burdens Of his office in
attending Ford's Theatre, on Tenth
Street, near +, accompanied by Mrs.
Lincoln and two friends-MajOr Henry
Rathbone and a daughter Of Senator Ira
Harris. The bill was our American
Cousin" with Laura Keene in the cast.
Miss keene was awaiting one Of her cues
in the side-wing and the audience was
eagerly watching the play, when the re-
port Of a pistol startled everybody. A
man was seen to leap from the Presi-
dents box 70 the stage, brandishins a
dagger, and shouting sic semper tyran-
caught i'm the folds Of flag, and he fell
breaking his leg. but resainius his feet
he managed 10 escape 10 q side alley,
where he leaped upon a horse that had
been kept saddled there. and fed from
the city The audience was seized with
panic Laura keene, running into the
Presidents box. held Lincoln's bleeding
head on her lap. and the robes Of comedy
were becrimsoned with the blood Of this
terrible tragedy.
BOOTHS ATTEMPT To ESCAPE.
John Wilkes Booths bullet had entered
one of Lincolns temples. After shooting
the President. the half-demented actor
had stabbed Major RathbOne- The dying
President was carried to a small house
opposite the theatre. where, surrounded
by his family and the principal officers Of
the Government. ne breathed his last at
O'Clock on the morning Of April Is, in
the third month Of his ffty-seventh year.
The joy over the return Of peace was
eCiiDsed everywhere by this bloody event
The body lay in state at the Capitol on
April %. and was viewed by grand con
course Of mourning people. The next day
the funeral train set out for Springfield,
Ill The cOrtege halted at all the princi-
pal cities on the way. and was greeted
everywhere with extraordinary demon
STATIONS Of grief for the dead ], ader. The
ifllclllS were ulIdlll ldlu 10 rest at OAK
Ridge, near Springfield. on May 4. and
a white marble monument tby the Sculp-
tor. LarSin c. Mead now marks the con
secrateG ground The expressions Of sOr-
Federal Government from all over the
world were dftcTWard published by the
State Department in a quarto volume OF
nearly a thousand pages, called The
Tribute Of the Nations to Abraham Lin
coin"
John Wilkes Booth. the assassination.
la t.Ir
days after his crime Fleeing on horseback
10 a farm about thiTty-fiVe miles from
Washington, he lay for six days IN the
woods. Then he secretly crossed both the
Potomac and the RappahauuOck and took
refuge IN a barn on farm near Bowling
Green. To this hiding place a squadron
OF United states troops tracked him. The
barn was set on fire and Booth. while re-
slSting arrest. was shot dead by soldier
named Boston CDrb.tt- Thu ruiserablv
persisted the murderer Of IancDID who
was son Of the noted actor, Juuius Bru-
tus Booth. and whose gifts had seemed 70
deStlne MIN 10 noble career. He had
been born at Belair. Nd, in ISIS, and
was only tWenty-SeNeu years old. His
deed brought FOR "A time an uumerited
public contempt for the actors profession
Ills own corpse was secretly buried under
the hagst0-cy u the arsenal warehouse
al Washington Two years later how
ever, his brother. Edwin BoC-.I had The
remains Inferred In the family plot iu the
cemetery at Baltimore.
BOOTHS HALLUCTNATION.
Booth undoubtedly labOred under the
haIlucinatiOn that he was reyengiug
Southern wrongs and sufferiugs in slay-
ing Lincoln. The actor was at the head
Of a small conspiracy. and on the same
evening that he shot the President a fell
lOw-COnspiratOr gained access TO the
home Of Secretary Of State William H.
Seward. where Seward lay on a couch
with a fractured arm and jaw and stab
bed the Secretary several times i'm the
face and the neck. Seward son was also
struck down. After severe suncriugs
both Of the attacked men recovered from
their knife wounds. Later the cOusDira-
Cy was uneaTthed. four Of the COnsplrat-
Ors were hanged, three were imprisoned
for life. and one was sentenced for "a term
Of years. Andrew Johnson succeeded To
the Presidency and 20 the tremendous
problem OF Federal reconstruction. which
he SO siguaEy failed 10 cope with in the
mastery STYLE of a Lincoln
The assasSiDaLi0n Of President Garfield
had 40 such peculiar significance ass that
OF Lincoln. Garfield was laid low by the
bullet of "a haTy-Lraiued individual. who
had come 10 we shiDgtOU for political
office and who had been disappointed. To
Dee sure. the division OF the Republican
camp into "SralWaTts' and "HaIf-ErColsF
may have contributed to inspire Charles
T1rI4e (,uffeal with the desire of killing