The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-05-06 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SAO. dined at Weleeker's res Leman% the most fitrihtmabfe une In the city. After (firmer he ietur ed it the Na.lonal Hotel When he was leaving tie lens tulle thy Mr. ~te,rist, the chrk, to he unusually pale and nee vdu•. He asked fur a sheet of paper and all envelope, and XII 1311Vel.ip., PIA commenced to write a letter at the public counter. observing that a number of people were at the counter, he nqueeed to he allowed to write at the prlvato desk, which tomes& was ac_eetied it..  While writinv he inquired if It was 1864 or lti6s, and wan answered, " Don't you know the year you live in ?" Upon finishing Ws hitter be deposited it in the mail box and proceeded to his row. A 'mut seven o'clock he carve do •n to the 111.,e. as al, upon handino his key to Mr Her her, the clerk on duty, the latter remarked his unusual p deness and marble like appearance, and riskad if he was 111. He , answered quickly " No," and asked, "Are you going 50 I Ford's theatre to night?" Mr. Bunker replied," No." He said, " You on.ht to go: there it to be some aplendial act. trig there tonight" The next heard of Both wears ii lie after 7 o'clock, when he, in company with live others, ebtered the drinking saloon of Georee Harry, adjoining For. 's Theatre, and all of them drank together. After ' drinking they fornoady eh° k hands with each other, bidding each oili r Soil-bye. Upon leaving the bar room two of the party rode off on horseback. After the trestle occurrence at Ford's Theatre a.. 'ulcer commanding one of the fortifications east of the city was hurrying to his command, and was acc qnpalitrd by an orderly, B..tween Lincoln Hoapital and Canto Barry they came upon two men riding desperatety. These two turned down a lane in which? wore four others, all mounted. The officer and his orderly gave chase, and were fired upon. Tire orderly we' wounded, and the party pursued rode rapid y away, and tar sped with those who were evidently walling for them. On the 1301, a men of gerdeel appearance took a room at Kirkwood'. Hotel, where Vice President Johneon hoards. Duribg the followin day he was particular in hi, Inquiries about the ro in of Mr Johns•n, his whet, alh,uts 'and habits. Since Friday night the strange lodger has not been sem, and on hreaklog open his room last night there were Geoid concealed between the bed and matt. es.. a bowie knife arid nary revolvor, and a bank book of J. Wilkes It loth, showing a hal oice of overtr or hundred dollars in oank. During Oso afternoon of Friday, Booth called at Kirkwood'., and sent to Mr. Johnson a card, as follows— " Don't wish to disturb )oth Are you a home?  "J. IV ILKSS BOOTIL  The following items will also he read with interest _  Before leaving his hotel for the theatre, Booth asked the clerk it he WWI not going to ord's Theatre, and added, 'tiers will be some ver y One acting there to night." The door keeper at the theatre rooked 800 h as lie parsed to, and shortly after the latter entered the restaurant best the theatre arid In a hurled mariner called tor •‘ Brandy, brandy, brandy," rappi g at the some time on the bar.  - - Booth Is said to have been prsetising pi.tol shooting st Boron, firin, w,th the werpon under his kg, behind his 111111 in r tiler strange positions.  Booth's mistress, Elie, Turner, atiempted to cmmit suicide on the 15th, by taking chloroform. Tie proper remedies IP TO immediately applied, wile., Ella aeon rerived and asked (or Kook's picture, which she had concealed under he pillow of her trol, at the same time 'remarkino o the physicians that she did not thabk them for saving her life.  Junius Brutus Booth, father of the assassin, was to have IC ad on the night of th murder, hut was prostrated by the news. Hisser., Edwin 11‘, dh, was in the deepest grief.  . -A Cleveland paper states that when Booth was in that city, eighteen months ago, he remsrked to a prominent eitizsn that "the men wh kthed rthraharn Lincoln would occupy • higher nice of fame then George Washington." A Chicago paper saps that, in 1863, Booth, when at the theatre, made the remark one day, " Wks% a glorious rippotonity there is for a man to immortalise himstit by killing Lincoln !" " What gnu.' would that do he was asked, lie then quoted these lines; "The ambitious youth who fired th Epnestan dome Outlives tsr tome the pions fool who reared IV Several persons connected with Ford's theatre at Washington had 'leen arrested.  ogled the city judges, during the representaiton of tha third act, saw a man leaning against the wall, a few steps back from the private bog, whose manner attracted ht. attention. His first impressions were this he was drunk, but, eyeing htm more .losety, the strange person gave the judge piercing look. His glaring eyes, line face and pervious action led the judge to believe that the miss was crazy, and he called the at mitten of the gentleman sitting nvit to him to the strange action. Just then there was a demonstration of epplause in the theatre over some scene on the stage which attracted his attention. A momeut—sed hula momesit—r e tinned again to view the stranger, and he was just passrog thrcugh the door into tile President's box. But a moment more the deed was done, and the strange person disappeared on the stage.  Tl. New York correspondent of the Morning Port writes S me six weeks ago I chanced to he one of a company which included Booth The intmeesion he ri.de upon me war, I confess, favourab'e Ho seemed to he, and was cerWray dozing that evening, a most polished gentleman lie is a rare specimen of manly beatrty, not tall, nut most g•acetulty formed, with tegiliar large dark eyes, dark Mown hair, and a perti-ct complexion, d lOWA)a dreser, with the most exqui.ite taste him mariner turret, reserved, dignified, and gentlemanly in the ex• trent... lie is unmarried. Though afir htly bar*, he hse almost the strength of a Hercules, and 99 men out of 100 Wood be no mst,:ir for hm in an encoonter. He is a Mad shot, a tine fencer, a thorongh lineman, and a mesterei the deg er. His personal braver, has been utique•timied, and many of his Irleilds have wo,olered why had d not joie the Confederate Amy, in which his sympathies were so strongly enlisted.