Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-06-16 | Page 2 | J. Wilkes Booth's Sweetheart Dies

J, WILKES BOOTH'S SWEETHEART OIES Louise Wooster Buried a Little Lit-tle Over a Week Ago at f Birmingham, Alabama. By International News Sen-ice BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. June 15. In a corner of a cemetery at Birmingham, Ala., practically unescorted, a little over a week ago, was burled tho body of Louise Wooster, Woos-ter, the woman whose name will be handed hand-ed down in history as tho last sweetheart of J. Wllkos Booth, who killed Abraham Lincoln. Known as the "woman of many loves," the crowning affection of her life, how-over, how-over, was for the .soulful-eyed, handsome, dashing, flory tragedian whose deed shocked tho wholo world In his day and the horror and wantonness of which will be fell through all time. Ono Qf tho last acts of this woman's life was to publish an autobiography In which sho bared the great love of her life and sought, courageously, to lift some of the stain which clings to Booth's name by mitigating his deed. To Louise Wooster, even to the last, Booth was a. kindly and affectionate gentleman. gen-tleman. To her ho was an out-and-out unionist, to whom she attributes the assassination as-sassination as an Inspiration growing- out of Ills 'belief that Lincoln and Lincoln alone was responsible for the terrible conflict just closed and that once he was removed strife would be ended.