Show joint john 13 ISo hotly the stories about jolin john wilkes booth are arc very absurd 11 says mr louis districh in an old washingtonian 1 I have beard people throughout the country say that booth was never killed or captured and the body which was brought to washington was a dummy when his body was brought brou lit here on oil the gunboat I 1 wanted to see sec him but it was almost impossible to get a chance I 1 thought of all schemes to get on board and at last went to my friend mr todd toad ot of the army and asked him how low I 1 should get to see the body he said we are to make a post mortem examination tomorrow to morrow in the afternoon you come to the boat and tell the guards you have a message for me I 1 will be on board and will tell them to send you on to me as I 1 am expecting you I 1 edid idid did boand so and was admitted just before the post mortem exa examination mi nation mr todd toad lifted the big tarpaulin that was laid over 01 the body on the upper deck and showed me the face of the dead man it was calm and peaceful peace fIll as a babas and it was john wilkes booth it Is all nonsense to say that lie he was not there I 1 saw him and touched his licad head it was cold and lead dead ilia and it was booth I 1 know what I 1 know and I 1 saw the man lying there the gunboat was anchored bencen between the arsenal and the navy yard but nearer the yard than the arsenal among the other absurd stories told about booth was one to the effect that his big body had been sun sunk ki k the eastern branch of the potomac at midnight aud and that no one knew where it was that was is as false as everything else elsa they told his body was buried in the old penitentiary ground where the arsenal now nov is together g with those of the other conspirators harold paine mrs awl and there the body laid for ten years until it was finally disinterred and carried to baltimore and burled buried beside that of his father in the family burying ground washington cor kansas city times |