Show j f 1 i 7 c. c t r k c t tr inca nr 1 r f ca e I n fit fit- r 1 1 x I J V f jr V OK X r I i Asto Astonishing in Claim That the tLe e Man Shot by Sergt Cor Corbett ID e tt E. E I Was Not John Wilkes Booth an and That the e Real I Murderer Afterward Saw His is Brother an and Finally v By By Clive Marshall birthday finds a aE HE E approach of Lincoln's not been par par- ar- ar cf which has perhaps been 1 in n many man years Not only political aroused by recent but sentiments M sion troubled world have given singular in a events cents ns t of Abraham Lincoln To prominence to the name lard laid on the name and follow follow- the emphasis a add d d to created ted by the impression cr jug fa the extraordinary Y erection of a Lincoln statue in England an Eng Eng- s Pla piny y r received cd with th marked enthusiasm has been brought to America and has haa in L London in this created treated quite as marked an impression Abraham Lincoln country John Drinkwater's indeed been recognized as a fine tribute and md h has 1119 pIa play Now comes Irving Bacheller's rei re- re s I great i ble book A uA Man for the Ages written with a beautiful sympathy and a superb humanitarian humanitarian insight that arc characteristic of this this' writer niter g The New Lincoln Mystery 1 At s such ch n a time there is peculiar interest to a startling theory theory theory-it it it is called a revelation by those to the assassin of Lincoln lo bo o believe as believe as I History is full of puzzles and rumor has put putt t file e cloak of m mystery on man many historical char- char Was Elizabeth England's great virgin 5 queen really a woman or a man masquerading as s a Ionian Was Joan of Arc burned at the or was it another woman who looked like the Maid of Orleans Orleans' Was Marshal Ne Ney exer exe- exe w wa r a H Ha a y y k y Y n 4 p J F B n r. r r t ti 4 C e Irving Bach Bacheller Author of ofA T. T A Manti Man for the Ages ti b by a firing firine S Sq squad d or d' d did Id he die as a school school- aster m South C Carolina aro 1 lOa Did the thc Dauphin of ofie t f t Fran fiance ranee te son ono on of f Louis Lou IS XVI and Marie Maric Antoinette d die ie as E El hazer Williams at Hogansburg n N. N Y fr D DM Did td w iT on Bo BonaParte dIe in In exile on the island of St. St H Helena Selena 1 e L ena or was he b. shot h t in S 0 In an attempt to see sea eG h b ig ton son W while h lIe living as Austria nn a cobbler in no 0 was t the th he e man in the iron m mask sk All oft of ot t th e c and many 0 others th thIt ers arc questions which have havet t t It en b by y more or r less evidence going going 1 to how dhow th that a t the commonly records of accepted Us Mato y ory J rY fi were ere at least op open en to to inquiry And now Id IdOn On y recently the thc th I c Question as afa to whether it ItI to tas M John Joh T t. t n W Wilkes B Bo Booth th 0 assassin of Abraham braham Lincoln w who h 0 was shot in th the thc e b burning barn on tho the Garrett Garret f farm arm I been at Point Co Conway Virginia has hasAn hast raised t An Aliened Lo Confession N Not ot ion U. U long g a ago two b br brothers R R. R D. D Craig and Harley Cral Craig g o of f 0 Oklahoma t G tie City ORla Olyla on Booth as an authentic auth en r IC PIcture of John Wilkes I f the t man an in El i declared that they lived with v.-ith R eno no and d a knew him well to tot the tle up time hI of his t l and S death death In in Enid okla okla- Tan Jan 14 when rY n q questioned told the thc following On Jan n. n ion ion- 1903 T b een en know kno a house painter who had n as D David av I id d E E E- George Gcorge committed sui fide by saki AV Avenue nue taking lIot go How Hotel tea ng 1 poison Pi is while st stopping at t the he Grand Gran n Enid me Okla a. a 1 In n the interval of 0 AI A- A I 1 s sk k Committed Suicide in Oklahoma in o 1 di t t J r rY t f i 0 I t I N Y A y 11 O r t r y d vyt r JM r A x I rr r e. e r 4 u t x ft r X 1 i ti y 1 i r 5 w fc y a r T b hr k I rt r I. I 11 J t 4 I 0 u i p 1 r. r ia U 1 r it h T. T 1 h t i fr r i 1 1 y From an Earl Early y Picture of the Murderer L Booth Armed with Revolver er and Da Dagger goer to Whom Satan Is Whispering Incitement to the Crime consciousness between the swallowing of the poison poi poison poi poi- son fon and his death he lie confessed sed both orally and andin andin in m in writing that he was John Booth who assassinated Lincoln and in support of his declaration declaration declaration showed to those around his bed a letter addressed ad dressed to Finis L L. L Dates Bates an nn attorney of Memphis Memphis Mem Tenn and stated that Bates would confirm his ills confession Soon after making the statement he died leaving b an m estate of which has never been cla claimed l led Mi Mr Bates Dates was vas immediately notified of theman's theman's the tho thoman's mans man's death and a day or two later arrived in Enid to claim the bod body and making maJin his way to the undertakers undertaker's establishment he identified the remains as being tho those e of a 1 man he had met in Glenrose Mills Milk Tex rex in in 1871 under the name of ot John St. St Helen The Story of St. St Helen According to the story told by Bates he and andSt St S1 Helen became fast friends St. St Helen was not Dot very prosperous in business but was v socially very ery popular being noted for his ability as a of Shakespearean dialogue and for Jm his eloquence as a public speaker Except pt when in company he was vms of a taciturn and gloomy gloom tern tem On one occasion in 1872 1572 St. St Helen became desperately ill and thought he was going to die And one night as he believed himself himsel at deaths death's eath door he called Bates to his bedside and announced announced announced an an- that he had a confession to makeI make I HI am dying he whispered l f My name is John Wilkes Booth I am the assassin of President President President dent Lincoln Get the picture of ref myself from under unde the pillow I 1 leave it with you for my future identification Notify my brother Edwin Booth of New York city Bates took the picture a tint tintype pc made by a Glenrose Mills photographer but paid little attention attention at at- to it thinking the man was W-IS delirious St St. Helen recovered however and since he had already told Bates he was Booth he decided to tell him the complete story of his life and escape after shooting Lincoln and the following story as told by St. St Helen Bates claims to have spent years investigating and is convinced of its truth Following the shooting of Lincoln in the box at Fords Ford's Theatre and the leap to the stage e that broke Booths Booth's right leg above the ankle the assassin assassin as as- sassin made his escape on horseback with David E. E Herold Booth made his way through the military lines by using tho the password that had been given him by a n high on official cial who was among the plotters He lIe first stopped at the former home of a friend Mrs then proceeded to the residence residence resi real dence of Dr Samuel Mudd who first first and and this part is important important cut cut away the boot th then n put splints on the leg so the slayer was forced to continue his flight wearing but one boot Booth and Herold met a u man named Ruddy named who agreed reed to guide them to the iho Confederate lines for While Rudd Ruddy went ahead to arrange arrange arrange ar ar- ar- ar range a meeting with certain officers of Col Mosby's fosby's forces encamped on the other side of the Rappahannock river the fugitives la lay y in in hiding After four da days s Ruddy returned with news that everything was ready and Booth reached and md crossed the Rappahannock safely being concealed beneath a pile of or straw in in a negros negro's cart lIe He met Mosby's men at t the Garrett homestead homestead home home- stead and m then discovered he lie had lost his diary tome oine letters and the check with which Mudd Ruddy Huddy y was to have been paid Ruddy Huddy volunteered to return with ith Herold and search for the missing articles being anxious to g get t the check It was upon thi this incident St. St Helen contended that the falso false identification of the man mm killed b bCorbett b- b by Corbett in the barn rested Two days later Inter upon being warned of the tha approach of or Federal troops Booth fled to the tho woods nearby and Rudd Ruddy and Herold were th the tha themen men surrounded in the Garrett barn Herold gave himself up without a struggle but Ruddy decided to fight it out St. St Helen claimed it was Ruddy who was Killed by Sergt Corbett Booth had shaved sha off olT his bis mustache during the flight while Ruddy Rudely who was of the same size she 10 and 1 build as Booth did dul not Carrying Booths Booth's papers which had lad b ben been en found in tho the negros negro's wagon it was only natural h ha he should he be mistaken for the assassin Booth fled westward from Virginia in various disguises reaching Texas a year after the murder murder murder mur mur- der having gone gon first to California then down through Mexico l before arriving arriving- in the Lone Star State Slate Ti Tintype Identified Not lori long after aft making the confession St. St Hel Hc Helen in n left Glen Glenrose ose Mills l for Leadville Col where Bates lost track of him in 1878 1578 St. St Helen changed his name several times and wd Bates heard of or him only indirectly until he was summoned t to Enid to identify the body in 1903 Bates carri carried d with him the tintype given iven him when tIll the confession was made He showed it to Gen Dana Dann who had charge of military affairs around Washington the night of or the slaying and who knew new Booth and he hc identified the picture as that of the murderer-actor murderer as did Gen Albert Alber Pike Joseph Jefferson the actor an and Junius g Booth nephew of the slayer la er according to Bates The Tho final proof adduced by Bates was that the tho body which was supposed to be that of Booth and md which was eventually buried in the Booth family cemetery in Baltimore had a boot on each foot whereas Dr Mudd had cut oil off the boot on Booths Booth's Booths Booth's right light foot so as to treat the injured limb Jimb Dr Mudd was later convicted as an accomplice and the boot said to be still in the hands of th the tho War Var Department was found in his home used ns os evidence against him in iq i th the trial The body of the man who killed himself in Enid Okla has been preserved in a mummified sv r IDU I HIS MASTER MASTERPIECE l Pi ECE The drawing to which the late ate Robert Carter gave the title His Masterpiece l was indeed a masterpiece by the cartoonist himself The drawing is described d as having a deep significance at the present hour condition in a crypt in Memphis It is said to show signs of a fracture of the right leg and ascar ascar a ascar scar over the right e eye e known to have been re received received received re- re by Booth while hile fighting a stage duel during during during dur dur- ing a 1 rehearsal of Julius Caesar Another story cited in support of or the claim that the man who was shot at the Ga Garrett tt farm as Lincoln's assassin was not John Wilkes Booth comes from a resident of Washington whose reliability is vouched for and who claims to quote dIrect from a member of the Booth family and who further claims to have havo talked not once but often with Edwin Booth Boot h on the subject This man affirms that the family of or John Wilkes Booth has never recognized as his the grave of the man who was shot b by Sergt Boston Corbett in the burning barn on the Garrett farm He Ire contends s that E Edwin win Booth saw his brother several years ears after the assassin of Lincoln was supposed to have been killed but that long b before before be be- fore forc that the family believed that the man slain by uy Corbett was not John Wilkes and acted on on I Ithe the theor theory theory theory-if if if it were not more than that that that-that that John Wilkes Wilkey had escaped and the man shot in inI inthe I the Garrett barn born was waft merely n a person who resembled rc- rc Booth Story of Edwin Booth Describing the meeting of Edwin Booth with his brother John Wilkes years after aften the latter was supposed to have been cn shot this man says While Edwin was VIas pIn playing n in London at least leas 15 years after his bi brother brother- other was supposed to have been killed he was enter entering ng his coupe one night just after a u performance at nt one of the theatres in which he had taken tho part of Hamlet in tho the play of that name According to a close relative Edwin reported report report- ed soon afterward to members of ot the family that tha John Wilkes walked clo close close up C up to the windows of I the coupe put his head inside the vehicle and said I dont don't know Edwin you 1 0 me Edwin told his family amily that had it been many years later than it was he could never have forgotten forgotten forgotten for for- gotten the unusually musical m voice and remarkable remarkable remark remark- able eyes of his brother brothel He described the maDin man maD manin in m detail and insisted that there was not tho the shadow of a n doubt in his mind of the identity of or the apparition that suddenly appeared out of the London fo fog lie He said John Wilkes looked well and wore a smile half-smile as ns he paused to see ace whether his brother would recognize him Edwin after a n along along long look claimed to have extended his hand suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly with with a cry of Wilkes which was the name namo he always s 's called his brother John Wilkes however however how how- however ever doubtlessly realizing his danger dang and fearing that others might be attracted by hy Edwins Edwin's surprised surprised surprised sur sur- and somewhat excited manner raised a warning hand turned quickly and amI disappeared again agnin in the fos fog The fact that the f fancily family has never r recognized cognized cog cog- the grave gra of the man shot by Sergt Corbett appears to b back ck up the story ston of the meeting of ot the brothers which as 1 I heard Beard it it had bud all th the tho earmarks of truth This much I am sure of of the tho family believed Edwins Edwin's story and there could have e been no good reason for him to have manufactured manufactured manu manu- such a 3 tale talc nor could there be a reason for another person resembling John Wilkes Booth to appear before Edwin suddenly claim to be his brother and then disappear r without further in in- in- in formation orma on In the official report of ot the capture and killing killing killing kill kill- ing of Booth there h Is is- only one little sentence which seems to fit in with the s story o J told by theman tho the thoman thoman man St. St Helen to Bates and that has to do with the incident of Booths Booth's crossing the nock neck concealed in a n negros negro's cart Point in Official Records In the official records in the War Department in Washington published in April 1866 occurs this paragraph In a paper filed by l Conger and Baker and indorsed and commended to the at attention of the secretary by Gen Baker it is is' stated that information in information information in- in formation was derived on April 24 4 from froman an old oM negro from whom it was obtained and reported on the same da day to Gen en Baker by one of his men that Booth and Herold had bad crossed the Pot Potomac mac macnear near Mathias Point on the night of April 22 The name of the negro is not made known not nor has any claim whatever er been filed by by- such a person Of course against the story told by hy St St. Helen the reported word of Edwin Booth Bootle that he saw v his brother lon long after the tr tragedy ge y at the Garrett farm and the general attitude of the Booth family family fam Lam ily on the subject as told by he the Washington friend we have ve the official report of the killin |