The escape and suicide of John Wilkes Booth
Subtitle: or, The first true account of Lincoln's assassination : containing a complete confession by Booth many years after the crime
By: written for the correction of history by Finis L. Bates
Edition: [Ill. ed.].
Publisher: Historical Pub. Co.
Published: 1907
Place of publication: Memphis, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination.
Other titles: First true account of Lincoln's assassination
Description: The author claims that John Wilkes Booth was not killed at the Garrett house in Virginia in 1865, but that he was living under name of John St. Helen at Glenrose Mills, Tex., 1872-1877, and committed suicide at Enid, Okla., in 1903 as David E. George.
Notes: ""Giving in full detail the plans, plot, and intrigue of the conspirators, and the treachery of Andrew Johnson, then Vice-President of the United States"--T.p.

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography, 1519

Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography, 136a

Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography, 136b

Copy 1: Book, flexible covers; frontispiece.

Copy 2: Book, flexible covers; frontispiece, missing prelim. p., loose t.p.

Copy 1: Handwritten inscription on flyleaf: To my friend John E. Burton with best wishes of the author, Finis L. Bates, Memphis, Tenn., March 18th, 1914.

Copy 2: Handwritten inscription on frontispiece verso: To Mr. John E. Burton with compliments of the author, Memphis, Tenn., July 16, 1912.
Table of contents: title: Lincoln-Booth; title: John St. Helen; title: John St. Helen lectures Roland Read; title: St. Helen's illness; title: St. Helen's identity revealed; title: The assassination; title: The man killed at the Garrett home; title: The separation; title: The pursuit of Booth; title: The East Potomac Bridge; title: The hand of Secretary Stanton; title: Gen. Dana identifies Booth; title: A Baltimorean still; title: Informing the War Department that Booth lives; title: Gen. Albert Pike identifies Booth; title: Press comments on the suicide of David E. George; title: These are pictures of John Wilkes Booth; title: Reading the palm of John Wilkes Booth; title: Joseph Jefferson identifies John Wilkes Booth; title: Junius Brutus Booth identifies his uncle, John Wilkes Booth.