The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-02

dences of the officials and others whom
he visited.
Judge Dunlop of Georgetown. was ali
esteemed friend of the secretary. A
son of the judge was afflicted with a
mental disorder. and the secretary had
never seen him. One evening on re-
turning with kOerth the secretary cams
face to face with the afflicted Young
man, VINO was sitting on the doorstep Of
the Stanton residence. The apparftior,
as the sitting figure arose in the dark
Tor moment startled Mr.. Stanton, who
was at this period threatened with
assassination Before Koerth could
close in, Mr.. Stanton had seized ana
thrown to the ground the son Of his
TREND koerth finally relieved the sec
rotary OF the struggling victim and
marched him off to the barracks Bv
order OF the secretary. he subjected the
prisoner 70 examination and thus dis
covered his identity. Mr.. Stanton. on
being informed. sent him home in his
carriage with KOerth as an escort
After Mr.. Stanton had me trans
Ierreo TO the general service from the
Aeleran deserved corps said Mr..
koerth, I did regular soldier duty at
MS office in the war department was
promoted sergeant also. and during d
part of this regular service the siege
occurred Of sixty days. Before Presi-
Qent JOhnSon's Impeachment proceed
lngs concluded, the secretary had me
discharged from the regular service and
made me property clerk in the war de-
4'-A lAlACAlA- Ills IOSiLlOn 0elQ until
CleVeland's second term Under Presi-
dent Mckinley l was appointed to nv
present position of Waterman Here are
certificates from every secretary of war
from stanton down to Cleveland's term
as to my service"
The certificates of character are. in
deed, very eulogistic of Mr. Koerth's
service. that from Secretary Stanton
specifying that the man served under
his own eye"
IT had i,7r+ 1oe+ r-o-s, - .,---4-- .,
reflectiFely remarked Mr. Koertb
where I had been on an errand for the
war department when it fell and killed
over a score OF clerks I had got as far
as the avenue and returned immediate
~ to ascertain the nature of the catas-
trophe- While struggling on the side
walk in pushing crowd of people I'M
able to eXtricate myself I heard the
strangest and most significant remark.
L could not see the speaker but she was
either a negress or a southern woman
by the accent. The remark was that
this time Booth brought down the
house
When I finally got back to the war
department I mentioned this remark
as being an unfeeling or even a ma
/ lgnant observation by some misguided
! sympathizer with Lincoln's assassin
I However. the next day in reading the
4 Post L was startled by noticing an ac-
count of the funeral of Edwin Booth
the famous actor and brother Of the
assassin Noting the hour of the Ford
theater accident, I made the astonish-
ing discovery that the body of Edwin
Booth was being carried to the GENE
tery-June 9, 1S93-on the very day and
hour of the catastrophe in the old the
alter then used by the. surgeon general.
This remarka Bile coincidence and the
observation OF the woman white or
colored, about Booth bringing down the
house, has always impressed me with
the idea somehow that there was some-
thing supernatural IN chg dreadful acct
dent on that 9Th day of June, 1893, on
Tenth street .
NIr. Koerth Ewes in a naodes3 home at
713 S street northwest, and is still hale
ing the Biblical age allotted to man.
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