Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-08

Doherty was directed to proceed to
Port Conway on the Rappahannock
river. it having previously been estab-
lished that Booth was not in Fred
erlcksburG- At Port Conway there was
and still is a ferry over the Kappa
hammock river. The ferrynan then was
a man named Rollins When Doherty's
detachment reached the ferry, Rollins
was absent. Doherty showed photo
graphs of Booth and Herold to Mrs
Rollins. the ferryman's wife. and she
recognized them as men who had
crossed the ferry the night before and
had gone in the direction of Bowling
Green under the guidance of man she
understood to have been an officer in
the Confederate service. or at least in
Mosby's command. Rollins on his re
turn to the ferry was placed under
arrest by Doherty and forced to act as
guide to Bowling Green, though there
was no suspicion that the ferryman
and his wife had any idea that the men
were assassins. Booths lameness
caused him to attract much notice. At
Bowling Green 1t was learned that two
men, one Of them lame. were at Cal,
rett's farm. guide was impressed. and
before dawn April IS, twelve days art
er the crime. Doherty and his detach,,
ment surrounded CARROTS house ana
called the farmer to the door. Whiie
ing one of Doherty's men came UP win
a farmer boy whom he had found In g
corncrib on the place. 1t was one OF
5sanea that there Frem tM ~ men
of them a cripple, in the barn. That
barn was Immediately surrounded by
Doherty's men. The lieutenant obtained
the key of the barn door from one
on the men inside to surrender: There
was then no response. but whispering
inside was heard. When poherty
threatened to burn the barn Booth made
that now famous request for Doherty
to withdraw his men twenty-five PAGES
and give him a chance for his life.
Dave Herold. in the barn with Booth.
to put his hands outside the door, did
so was seized and drawn out.
The story goes that at about this
moment two civilian detectives accom-
panying the expedition, and who were
at the side of the barn opposite that
at which Doherty stood parleying with
Booth. set fire to the barn. More than
one man peering through the crack In
kindling fire Booth standing in the mid
die of the barn supporting himself with
a crutch and holding carbfne. Booth
raised the carbine, it is said. aiming 1t
at Doherty at the door, and at that
moment Corbett fred.
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The bullet struck Booth through the
base Of the skull and he fell to the barn
floor Doherty said afterward that he
thought Booth had committed suicide.
He, Doherty, rushed in, grabbed Booth,
now prone, and dragged him outside the
barn. He laid him on the grass before
the barn door and then had him carried
to the porch of the Garrett house. Medi-
cal aid was summoned, but when the
doctor arrived an hour afterward he de-
clared the wound a mortal one. 1t was
) o'clock when Booth was shot and he
died at Z. having uttered no inteliigible
words excepting Hands and Useless!
Useless Doherty said that when he
heard Booth family say Hands" he
thought he wanted him to shake his
hands, and as he lifted them up Booth
muttered, Useless! Useless That was
the only sign of consciousness which
Booth gave after being taken from the
barn.
There was one story popular at the
time, and which persists, that when