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Show XINGOLIf S SLAYES- IS - ' " ; ' 'IDENTIFIED; NE?SEW; : SAYS IT'S RIGHT BODY Enid, Okla., June 2.-:-JunIus Brutus Booth, the actor, and nephew of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, has fully identified the remains . of the man known as David E. George as his uncle. . ' . . . George, or Booth, committed suicide January.. 19oi, and 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 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 acted as Booth's confidential agent and ., attorney for nearly forty years. After Lincoln was shot the assassin escaped to the Garrett plantation in Virginia. : According to Mr. Bates, the man who was killed was named Ruddy. Being warned. Booth left Garrett's and was taken care of by friends in central Kentucky. He later settled at Glenrose Mills, Tex., where he conducted a store for several years as John St. Helen. |