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Show WILKES BOOTH'S DAUGHTER. Ktia Booth, Character Actress and Wife of Albert Henderson, is Dead. From the New York World. Rita Booth, who is baid to have been the daughter of Wilkes Booth, the slayer of President Lincoln, and who for some years iias been the wife of Al Henderson, the well-known well-known orchestra leader, died on April 12th In Binghampton, N. Y., where she was playing play-ing in the company of Flov Crowell. Rita Booth was a clever character actress, and often declared that she did not wish to rise to any eminence in the dramatic profession, pro-fession, lccause she feared her relationship would bring unpleasant notoriety. She wore always a medallion locket containing the likeness of the ill-fated Wilkes Booth. Several people who knew Booth claim to bare noted In her the clear-cut features, the big ox ( yes, the curly hair and high brow of the man who was regarded as the rising actor ac-tor of his time. Two children, one a girl of 13, survive her. A3 her husband was an orchestra or-chestra leader, they always managed to get engagement with the same company and were a very devoted pair. "The history of Mrs. Henderson's mother would be an interesting one," said a theatrical theat-rical man, "but she never talked of her parents, par-ents, though she seemed to constantly think of them. It is a chapter of dramatic history that ought not to be lost." . a . |