The Cairo bulletin., 1913-01-07

saken Of him eleven DAYS after his
death-ail correspond, and show him
to have been one and the same per-
son. They were all identified rs
photos Of Booth. by the late actor
Joseph Jefferson, strong personal
friend of Booths. and by Junius
Brutus Booth Jr,, nephew o. John
wilkes Pcoth.
(Sl 1and-write-N Nothing will
stand stronger test in court than
/ mans own hand writing In 1854
IN attempt was to have been made at
Meadville. Penn. to assassinate Pres
dent Lincoln. That day there was
Laced IN the window of one Of the,
lotcls a rlacsrd which read. "Abe
lincoln deYarted his life August !
1854. by the effects cf poison, Altsr
;ncoln's assassination the next
pring. THIS note was found TO be In
ne handwriting OF John Will.cl
20otA. II Is still preserved in Ear.
'er's Pictorial History of the wa
The checks signed at the local bank,
"a Fl Reno, during the early
lin ties, by David F.. George Booth
we're compared with the famous Abe
lincoln note. and they We're found
. be in exactly the same hand.
yriting.
The man killed in the barn was
hot in disobedience of orders by an
ycited fanatic, Boston Cofhett, o
0ember of the Sixteenth cavalry
'orbett in giving his account later
L the shooting said:
Il did what I said 7 would and
arIied out the Lords design
hey are saying all sorts Of things
bout me and a good many are blsn-
p me for firing too soon and with
mt orders, but | did what the Lord
old me to do. They can say
hat they choose, but l did what the
ord commanded me to do, and what
Y conscience approves"
Concerning the competency OF
orbetts evidence one has need only
. "size him up" After shooting
Ithe fellow in the barn and getting
is part of the reward, he lamentad
4ver it until his tormented con
science drove him crazy He driftod
eastward and was finally confined N
the insane asylum at Topeka. kans.
srom which he escaped in 1886. and
vas never afterwards authenticity
4eard Of. Attorney George T.
iuron. Of Topeka. was made his adj
1nistrator Mr. Huron thinks he
sent south into Old Mexico. and was
inally killed by Mexican grease-e.
IT must be remembered that prior
enlisting in the army Corbett was
+, revivalist exhorter and considered
IN erratic individual.
The Reward
The reward offered by the war de-
5artment. plus about 5000 geo Of
cred by various states, and By large
tiles throughout the union. brought
he total I'D to about 81 100000
comparatively only a small portion
Z this was ever paid, because tn re
vas general rumor aAoat that 0
serious mistake had been made and
hat the wrong man had been shot.
Mr.. Bates, in his First True Ac-
count of the Assassination of Ah-a-
han Lincoln" says that not single
dollar of the money offered by the
var department was ever paid over
IN this particular point Mr. Bats
seems to have been misinformed as
IS evidenced by the following letter
raceived from the treasury depart
ment:
Treasury Department Office of tho
Secretary.
washington, February !, 1912
Sir-In reply to your communica-
ton of the 22d ultimo, making in
qniry concerning the payment Of
awards offered by the government
for the apprehension Of the assassins
Of President Lincoln, | have to adj
wise You that congress by act of Jtily
IS, 1866 GA Stat. BAD, appropriate
u the sum of $4,000 for payment tn
the persons named in the srt. 10 ct s
istacticn Of al claims for tIlo taf
Yards offered hr the president. or hsl
authority of The war department
By direction CT the secretary
Resp ctfnlly,
chas. II Miller,
Chief of Division OF Book a9iast
and warrants. u
Tho more one follows Up the
vain n,faarts a4idenra T., tbn easn tAe.