Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-02-07

LAsNN f.a.f,
.la,r,tIe interest has oeen
co's'u, n. nst few days by a story
sfouss u,'.,opa OF a man who, COM
nom .. oD .n'cId, there, claimed that ne
nIuus ,gkss Booth, slayer OF Pres
vas ' ,'a.o,n somuch talk has The az
ldsn' ' '" that it Is reported ina,
=. corb,.t na man VINO ,r IS Clo ~ gu
Bosom ,ulej Booth in virginia Darn
TO nav, .rs ote the assassination Is
'nI'e J., We, @gt from the East to identity
cOD' ,aj, md move that 1t IS not that
ll lt D'I man Who drst made a president
O. , ~" cotbett Is supposed TO oe
a a. ip na.1 authority on the subject in the
,np y, sates and he has always
NV tbat he shot Booth, In spite oI
''"'' ae,e, repeated assertion that Booth
u' ~ ao, shot but was spirited away by
y W., sympathIzers, and is yet alive
or was until recently
u-.is man in Kansas city
ssy ybo heard the real story OF the
g.on and especially of the burial OF
,sn wukes Booth, from the lips ct
y un, avn brother. Edwin Booth, the
loo o5aSt,i uaeedan. This is perhaps
WOMB e.', '1 t,ns ihe story ever appeared IN
llt y, or Edwin Booth almost never
p 'n,, his assassin brother ana
p,'.n,''nlsrIy was be careful not 10
p y. 1,,o1 MS burIal-ior reasons whlc,h
~ st5rr make perfectly Obvious II
w. toli TO John r. sullivan, now APP
sI, M the Orpheum, under the
~ M saaraey. which only death has
vo,l ana hlg sullivan has neNe: re-
,..s,s5 II tlll now, because no occasion
tossl...u to c.ll % forth. But the as
'.-t,ars of .he Oklahoma suicide mat
/. '1as Ionn WilFcs Booth are so pre-
nr.tafous % Mr sullivan that ne teelS
b9i NJ ought 30 make public the true
s..,rpt %. tsa unfortunate mans end.
oThore h. one man in the United
s,o'ee olav. and only one said Mr.
sI.tgu in his dressing room yester-
dty "wno could identity absolutely the
hoiy of p0lih, end that man ls John
Naf,heuY .sHnt secretary OF the
,noF FUND Of Now York Mr.
Matthews was In the company with
I1br Wilkes Booth on the night that
Lincoln was Killed and he saw the
rbo.p ll3ie Not only that but he
,riy .c.sa friend Of Booth and knew
nj. yer9 characteristics lie could say
jr d second tha. the oklahoma body Is
not That Of tle famous assassin. But
Of 51he NU es Booth now rests In the
amlg laf 10 iho Booths, in a Baltimore
oroey Boston Corbett may have
shot Booth 10 that Virginia barn. but
even 4 lI did why should he come
h1l 60 IDENTIFY Che body Of a man
whom p uN only once. ana then at It's
worst ag"l i0 % condition which would
maize It. 7lru almost impossible?
i ,hy Naf any .aDf that 1t is not
Fo"h Nt bring Matthews here
fnf ett R; straight,
"8u. ihat That could not possibly be
po6.h ! base the most absolute assur-
alces rh.. came to nae from Edwin
Pam ms hgihor with whom / was
bailag msn for years. We played to.
rjhsfI here In Kansas city al the
ola Coates house, and were close friends
as wen ag follow actors. Edwin Booth
told me the true story Of the burial of
bis m0thefs body and | am now tell
INK q Coz the first time in the world.
Only DIS death could have unsealed my
lips and not even death, had not there
been this occasion to call Il forth,
s
Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln on Good
Friday nisht in Ford's theater, Wash
ington The play was our American
Stage when tho shot was dred and saw
Booth leap from the box down to the
stage In doing SO Il will be remem-
bded Booth caught his spur in the
draperIes of American flags and fell.
breaking his leg, Yet he made his way
70 The stage door leaped on horse that
VAS waiting In the alley for him. and
escaped over the Long bridge to vir-
g.nIa There his leg was set by a Dr.
Nudd and he went on toward the
south.
The original idea said Mr. Sullivan,
further was TO kIdnap Lincoln. but
samuel Arnold and James Mclaughlin,
each Of whom was to kin one cabinet
Officer backed out on the day that Lin
t'iCN UlleN li0m Washington where
Early On hfs ,.t1 IA 49,.