Show death of captain doherty new kew york april 5 captain edward P doherty died at his home in this city yesterday of heart disease aged BO 56 years in 1801 1861 he enlisted as a private in the union army he became captain of the sixteenth new york cavalry cava try and after Lincol ns assassination was detailed with fifty men to capture booth then a fugitive in a barn they having surrounded As captain doherty sprang in to seize booth booth raised a pun gun before he could fire at doherty sergeant boston corbetts bullet fired through a knothole knot hole killed him |