Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-02-21 | Page 3 | Burial Place of Lincoln's Slayer is Made Known

Burial Place of f Lincoln's us Slayer Is Made KnoWn Colonel James Hamilton Da Davidson pa- pa Declares He Has Kept Secret for Sixty Years CHIC CHICAGO GO Feb 21 Colonel Colonel James Hamilton Davidson former I commander of the tho Infantry today revealed re what he said was I the tho burial place of ot John Wilkes Booth assassin of ot President Abraham Abra ham Lincoln considered a secret for sixty years Colonel Davidson now living here believes ho is the only living lhing man who knows Recently Edwin Harper Harper Har liar per Sampson one of ot the seven men who had disposed of Booths Booth's bod body died in Moline Ill without revealIng revealing revealing reveal reveal- ing what had been done with the body Colonel Davidson ldSOn was in command command command com com- mand at Portsmouth Va the night of ot Booths Booth's burial and was told of it by Colonel Baker head of ot the secret Service ervice of Ot the arm army Since then Davidson says he has kept secret the information given him Davidson has been blind for twelve I years I I Just after acter the shooting of ot Booth at Bowling Green Va by Sergeant Boston Corbett says Colonel Davidson Davidson Davidson Da Da- a report came to me about a group of ot men acting mysteriously in the middle of the tho night around one of ot the warehouses I r didn't have to wait long for tor my information The head of ot the se secret secret secret se- se cret service in the army Colonel Baker came to me the next mOrnand mornIng mornIng morn- morn Ing and said he wanted ranted to see me mo meIn meIn moIn In In strict This Is what he said Last night I brought into Portsmouth Portsmouth Portsmouth Ports Ports- mouth the body of ot Booth the man who killed lIed the president Six of my men carried It on a stretcher to the first house to the north We Ve took It into the basement where we i dug a grave gra The body was waa placed in there and covered with acid Then the grave was filled tilled with limestone and dirt That was sixty years ago There cant can't be any harm in telling It now The country ought to know ow