The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-10

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oeen a painfui visit, for beneath every
SUBJECT OF conversation were thoughts
mat could not be uttered. A forgot
zen parasol caused me TO return TO the
mouse. almost Immediately after leaving,
when i found the dear old lady ween,
ing bitterly Poor heartbroken mother.
IN her great and lonely gricfl With
"hat flood of sorrowful memories. the
VISIT OF my mother must have over
whelmed her.
In the autumn Of 1860 my father
went 10 California, leaving my mother
ana the rest of the family in large
mouse In Longwood. beautiful 81.
hurb of Boston, In the spring of 1861
d nonie looking, sad faced gentleman
came to our house to ask if my mother
could take into her family, for a few
months. his mother, sister and two
orotners- The gentleman was Edwin
iaooth., saddened by the recent death of
ms VIE: His mother, Miss Anna Booth.
John wilkes and Joseph Booth boarded
with us that summer
Was Handsome Man.
John Wilkes Booth was then about
the age of my eldest brother, perhaps
twenty-four years old. To my child
'sh eyes he was very handsome. with
dark hair curling over a high forehead,
brown eyes, and dark mustache, He
was. believe, an attractive nina, with
winning manner and pleasant smile.
MY mother, with her gracious dignity
ana ready sympathy, always drew
Young people to her, and John Booth
responded TO her motherly interest. with
the respectful affection that vounp
man sometimes gives to a lady much his
senior. 1T must be remembered that, in
those days, be seemed so worthy of
lriendshlp1 as anyone now held in high
esteem. That he could ever be guilty
or crime. was then unthinkabIe. As
llttle anticipated was the feeling Of alb
horrence with which every photograph
letter, and every reminder OF him what
soeVer was afterwards destroyed by
! us.
-. Those were the first months of the
SlNli war, and fathers, brothers, hus.
bands. and lovers were leaving home
and dear ones, for the battlefield. In
speaking of this conviction that he
ought TO go TO war. John Booth told my
Il Christian first. In none of his conver.
sations with my mother did he lead her
TO inter that his sympathies were with
the south. Onr family were strong Re.
pubbcans, and had voted for Abraham
L'ncoln Their sympathics were wholly
for the Union and the north. Ny
mother thought naturally that he in.
'NhiN' " SnltI Inc DOGInern army.
At the end Of the summer the fam.
| lily left us, and we afterwards saw them
only occasionally. The following win
| ter John Wilkes Booth acted in Boston
Now and then he came TO see us. Child
| fashion, / naturally appropriated the
| lion s share of his visits to myself. In
| October, 1868, my mother and the resi-
| of us followed my father to California
| Soon after we ceased to hear from the
| Booths.
Assassination Told in Dream.
Gone night my mother awoke my
father suddenly saying: 'Oh, Charles!
have had such terrible dreaml |
| dreamed that John Wilkes Booth shot
me! 1t seemed that he sent me seats for
a private box in a theater, and ] took
some young ladies with me. Between
| the acts he came TO me and asked how
] liked the play, | exclaimed, why
John Booth! ] am surprised that YOU
could put such questionable play upon
the stage. | am mortified to think that
| have brought young ladies to see it.
At that he raised a pistol and shot me
in the back of the neck, II seems as il
/ feel a pain there now. After while
my mother fell asleep and dreamed the
same thing second time. Was il
possible, that Just before the commits
| SloI VI iUlS lUldlioNS uScu, lie IuOUSDl
of my mother as one of his friends whom
his atrocious crime should fill with en-
sternation and horrorl
''The next morning came the terrible
news which plunged our nation into
grief and mourning. Almost at the
hour of my mother S dream-President
Lincoln was assasslnated; shot in the
back of the neck. in a private box in
theater by John Wilkes Booth,
"MRS ELLA HOWARD HUGHES. -
Corrcborative Testimony.
At my request for further informa
tion / received this letter:
81 cannot give you very salts
factory answers to your questions
was twelve years and siA
months old March 81, 1865. old enough
to be viyidly impressed by events OF
Importance. To the best of my knowl
edge and belief my mother told hel
dream to the family at the breakfast
table the next morning, l heard hel
tell it repeatedly to friends from time
TO time, so that my recollection of il
is perfect. Ny mother died December
20. 1879. [ am quite sure that the dream
was told before we received news of the