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Show ASSASSIN OF LINCOLN. Man Who Recently Suicided Declared to Be John Wilkes Booth. An Enid, Oklahoma, dispatch contains con-tains the following: Junius Brutut Booth, the actor and nephew of Johr Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Presi-dent Lincoln, has fully identified the remains of the man known as David E. George as his uncle. George, or Booth, committed suicldt January 14, 1901, aUd in his effects was found a letter directed to J. L. Bates of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Bates came here and fully identified the body as that of John Wilkes Booth. He then went east and has obtained positive identification of the remains from the dead man's nephew and from Joseph Jefferson, Miss Clara Morris and a score of others who knew him in his early days. According to Mr. Bates' story, he had acted as Booth's confidential agent and attorney for nearly forty years. After Lincoln was shot tne assassin escaped to the Garrett plantation In Virginia. According to Mr. Bates, the man who was killed was named Ruddy. Be ing warned, Booth left Garrett's and was taken care of by friends in cen tral Kentucky. He later settled at Glenroso Mills, Texas, where he con ducted a store for several years at John St. Helen. |
