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Show HOUSE OF SINISTER FAME TOBE RAZED Washington to Lose Shack of Lincoln's Day WASHINGTON, March . For mors than half a century an old brick house has lowered down on psasersoy In H street. It hsa looked precisely as It looked on that dark day when Abraham Lincoln lay dead from an assassin's bullet bul-let and Mrs. Mary K. Hurralt was haled forth from the old structure to pay with 'her life lur complicity la the assassination assassina-tion plot. The house waa a boarding place then, a tlaln faced, three-story, rambling structure struc-ture said to have been branded by i'res-Idint i'res-Idint Johnson In approving the death sentence e Mrs. gurralt as "the next which hatched the rax" of the plot for; Lincoln's murder. Through the year. it has stood decaying amid Its sinister memories, unmerited among historic buildings of the capital. Now it Is to give way to modern needa Its walls, whose bricks seem still to whisper with almost forgotten Intrigues, will come toppling down and hardly a sisn of the old remain In the glass fronted front-ed store the re modelers will erect from the rulna Hy an odd chance, the old building has been occupied until recently by the daughter Slid granddaughter of a wool, an who was in girlhood a close friend of Mrs. Burratt. tieorge A. Atserott snd Louis "ayne also were arrested there In connection with the plot and In later years there was some talk that the structure struc-ture miftht serve as a museum for Lin-cota Lin-cota relics, but It never bore fruit. Now ths march of progreee Is to trample over It snd obliterate Us dark associations forever. |