Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07

Booth with whom he dined. He OBJ
served the injured man carefully be-
cause OF his apparent agony. Even the
| fortitude of wounded men was outdone
by the sufferer. who, If Ii was Booth,
had been hunted creature for 10 DAYS,
with the handicap Of q shattered bone
in his leg. Booth had face that would
long be remembered, and DR.. Newhill
recognized his likeness on the placards
broadcast when the search was under
way, although he did not see them until
ne had reached his home on the banks
OF the Rappahannock River.
The CARROTS were certain that the
slain man was Booth" says DR.. Newbill.
His words when dying on the porch Of
their home seem to support the identi-
f1cation. AS DR.. Omohundro bent over
the wound, the dying man whispered,
Tell my mother, did what thought
best. Tell her die for my country"
The detectives who accompanied the
troops were anxious to get to the Cap
ital and made race of it to see which
would arrive first with the news. The
body was wrapped in q blanket and
taken to Washington. There it was
identified" by scar on the neck.
initials on the hand and filings in the
teeth. The detectives we're well salts
fed that they had their quarry, and
with the greatest secrecy he was inferred
at night under circumstances that were
50 suspicious that they almost caused
an official investigation. In fact, Con-
gress took several years to arrive at q
decision regarding the distribution OF
the money.
Examination Of the records shows
many odd things regarding the identi-
flcation of the body. The physician.
whose description Of the scar on the
neck was taken as q positive identi-
fication, was unable to say that the
dead man was Booth by looking at his
features. Yet four years later when the
body was taken up, others said that II
was he without question. In 1865 q
dentist identified two filings he had put
in. Four years later the body was identi-.
worn by Booth had been cut from his
foot by. the physician who set the
broken bone. But one Of those "identi-
flying the body in 1859 saw the boot on
! the crippled leg In spite Of the fact that
it was then and still is In a museum
In washington.
Because of the secrecy Of the autopsy
and burial, 1t has been rumored time
and time again that Booth had not
been killed. The fact that the body
was removed from washington and re-
buried In the Booth plot in Baltimore
cemetery is not taken as proof. Booth
was seen" in many parts Of the world
in later years. A Memphis lawyer gor
many years had In storage the body OF
suicide, who, he claimed, had "ad-
mitted" being Booth. Many learned
articles have been written to disprove
this story.
eyes, have read all these accounts
Of the supposed escape of John wilkes
Booth" said DR.. Newbill. But the
man killed on the Garrett farm was
the man had supper with and ! am
convinced that it was none other than
Booth. The story that some other Grip
pie took Booths place In the barn can
not hold water"
Few Of the actors IN the last Booth
drama are living. Sergt Corbett Travelled
around the country, capitalizing his part
in the killing Of Booth. Finally he Was
given the post Of doorkeeper In the
Kansas Legislature. There one day ne
pulled weapon and threatened 70
clean out the body. He was disarMed
and ended hi days in an asylum for
the insane.