Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-11
BOOTHS BODY IN OKLAHOMA.
Mummlted Remains at Undertaking
Establishment in Enid Said to be
Those Of Lincoln's Slayer.

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During the past eight wears = dried
up mummy, on a shelf in an under-
taking establishment in Enid bac ha.n
one OF the main objects of cnrioeit,. in
the entire southwest. hocauea If the
fact that lust prior To death the man
claimed To ne John Wilkes pooth ,s-
Isaesin Of Abraham Lincoln %ot
day has passed since Tho death oe-
currrd but from one IA =, scor. of ,,,.,-
sons have called at The morpue to coo
tho mummy. and w r. popuimoo ,be
owner OF the establishment who on,.
banned the body, is kent busy RELAXING
the story To many yisitors rvan rro,,
other states, who have made tho trim
To- Enid purpoeely To see for Them.
selves. MANY who knew Hooth in bie
lifetime. and who have seen him both
on ana OFF the stage. have called. and
none has ever denied the resemblance
between the dead man and the actor.
David T. George, by which name
me man was known in life in both
Enid and FL Reno, committed suicide
at the Grand Avenue Hotel. in Enid.
January IL. 1903. After taking the
poison which ended his life. George
made deathbed statement that he
was J"hn Wilkes Booth, and outlined
ms HE since the assassination of
ffesideht Lincoln. The statement
was maze To Mrs, Hammer and Mrs.
summons OF Enid, and was published
widely at the time, creating scnsa-
llon throughout the entire country.
,ieorse hrst came to Enid on Decem-
her ., 1907. and remained IT the hotel
n.t' nc o'"'ii' il'i 10 ,'i"l sl'le ne
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heofge hfst appearance IN Okla
homa was IN 1901, shortly after the
opening oil the NOVA and Comanche
, lndian reservations To settlement. He
hotheSteaded clam near Hydro, IN
oaod" county ana dld painting around
TOWN Tor livelihood. Prior To 60
ing 10 FL Reno he sold his claim for
Sl59e. IN" people ct Hydro remem-
Der MN as a very eccentric man. To
i-dhor Williams Of tn" Hydro Review,
ne made positive statement that
John Wilkes Booth, WHO assassinated
Apra nam Lincoln, was not dead; ana
| fhat When the barn. in which Booth
was supposed 10 have taken refuge.
was burned, Booth was not there.
George was very emphatic in his state
iheht alth"len nut lttle attention was
pad TO nm AT the time.
Following the suicide of George in
Enid, tho mayor Of FL Reno received
| u letter asking for further particulars
regarding the suicide The letter.
| was signed Mrs. Charles Levine" and
she claimed That Booth was her father.
From what could be learned at the
tihe she was vaudeville actress. In
nashville, Tenn, Mrs. Levine after
ward tod the story as IN her letter to
Keno. She said her mother was Mrs.
Louisa Booth, formerly Payne. Of the
cumberland mountain section of Ten
nesse"' she married man named
John Wilkes Booth, as she claimed the
iamliy record would snow, in 1872.
| Ihey went to Sewanee and from there
10 memphis Where, flndlng the detec-
tlYes on his trail, he disappeared.
About five months later daughter
was horn, being named Laura Ida
Booth, now Mrs. Levine. She went
on the stage as a child and did not
Know until the suicide of George at
| Enid was published that she was a
daughter of Lincoln's assassin. Rela :
tives IN Tennessee sent her clippings
OF inc suicide IN Enid, telling her that
George was her father, being the man
VINO had married Louisa Payne. Mrs.
Levine then began an investigation
and became convinced that John
Wilkes Booth and the suicide was the
same man.
| T.. T.. Bates. an attorney of Mem
iphis, Tenn. who assisted Mrs. Levine
| in her Investigations. stated to her in
letters that he had represented John
lWill5es Rooth as his ATTORNEY IN sew