The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-06
CORPSE SHIPPED EAST
Enid Gives Up Her Valuable
Advertising Card
BY ORDER OF RELATIVES
Strange Circumstances Sur
rounding Investigation
BY ORDER OF RELATIVES

! Enid, o. T.. June 5.-The Wave says:
] to the positive identity of the ]. Wilkes
Booth. who committed suicide in this
Davide f. George, and. whose remains
were perfectly embalmed under the sus-
picion and evidence at hand that the re-
mains were really those OF Lincolns as
sassin. For time the morgue OF Penni-
mans undertaking rooms were visited by
thousands of people anxious 10 view the
remains of such notorious character as
! J. Wilkes Booth. The undertakers tired
of satisfying the curiosity of the people.
when the remains were removed from the
morgue and placed in an arm chair in
the casket room of the establishment.
This change occurred about February /.
and until yesterday the corpse sat in tlie
arm chair. in full dress. with eyes wide
open looking nearly as natural as life,
so well did the embalming fluid do its
work, in fact the body was as well cured
as one OF Swift's hams and sat in the
chair looking as comfortable as one in
life.
Yesterday morning, by order OF Mr..
Bates, who produced his authority to act
for the Booth family. the remains were
placed in a metallic casket which was
sealed and made ready for shipment 10
wherever the nephew of the dead Booth
may direct in the near future.
The positive identification of the re-
mains as those of j. Wilkes Booth by
the descendants of the great Booth fam
lily is prima facia evidence that Booth
was not killed in Virginia in the way and
manner given in his history. but that he
still lived and they knew it. The long
delay in the positive Identification was
caused from the fact that he had lived
under so many different names and the
family wanted to be positive that he was
really dead. hence, Mrs Bates. who was
employed by the Booths. traced him from
Glenrose Mills. Texas, to Enid, covering
twenty-four hours.
The remains are now under the control
of the Booth family and it is fair to pre-
sumo that they will be laid to rest by the
side of Edwin Booth in New York. Or
perhaps they will be inferred in the old
Booth burial plot in Maltimore Maryland.
One of the strangest circumstances sur
rounding this George. alias Booth. death
and identification is the fact that the fed
eTal government never has given it any
attention. This would naturally lead TO
the belief that the government was well
satisfied that j. Wilkes Booth was dis
posed of years ago in the way and man
ner history portrays; Yet the uncertainty
surrounding the positive identification Of
the man shot in the Garrett barn as being
Booth that the government refused to pay
the reward offered for his capture.
1t is indeed wonder that the assassin
was not identified and captured by the
government before his death, as he
seemed to have trusted his secret to many
people during the last twentyeight years.
However. as Mr.. Bates notified both the
war and state departments that he had
good reason to believe that Booth was
living, twenty years ago. However, as
Mr.. Bates notified both the war and
state departments that he had good rea-
son to believe that Booth was living
twenty years ago. This is about the last
chapter of this sensational affair as far
as Enid is concerned. The next is ship
ping of the body and what disposition
the Booth people will make of it.