Show Ir GOVERNMENT MAN WETS SETS AT REST WilD STORIES ABOUT e BOOTH SlAYER OF LINCOLN I Historical Records Show Killer Was Shot His Body Positively Identified and Buried in Name Name- Nameless Nameless less Grave arave By His Brother Edwin Booth SPRINGFIELD lii III March 23 s W Five alleged skulls ot of John Wilkes Booth ot of President Lincoln are on exhibition exhibition tion In the United States and 20 Boothe Bootha have died to Herbert Wells Veils Fai Fa custodian of Lincoln's tomb here Recurring that Booth lived 38 years after President Lincoln Lincoln's death and later committed suicide are characterIzed by Mr Fa as wild lid Those who n lab Ish to mak make money out ot Of the hoax or to create cheap notoriety a o the only ones to dis- dis dispute dis dispute puta tim the historical record of oC Booths Booth's death In a barn at the Garrett farm tarm Mr Fay Pay asserted David E t George Gcorge was only one ot of 20 different men who have sought to create a furore by toy claiming to tobo tobe tobo bo be Booth Rooth Recently while lecturIng lecturing ing ins on Booths Booth's death at tho tomb one ot of my audience who gave his name as 58 William Wllliam H L Regan said lie hG embalmed the body of ot George Asked whether ho he thought It as as Booth and whether the dead man joan had any proof of ot his Re- Re Regan Re-gan Re gao gan said he not Never Never- Nevertheless Nevertheless Georges George's body body- was em- em embalmed embalmed em embalmed and end shown bown over the coun coun- country coun- coun country country try In a 5 commercial sho show scheme echeme The version erslon ot of Booths Booth's death ac- ac accepted accepted ac accepted by the custodian of ot the tho vic vic- victim's victim's vic tims tim's tomb 1 Is as John Wilkes Booth eluded hi is pursuers for 11 days He Ha vaa IlS as fed by Thomas Thoma A Jones In the mean mean- meantime meantime meantime time In a geO e groe e along the Poto Poto- Poto Poto mao mac Lieutenant Baker Baher ot of o tho se- se secret se secret cret service nho ho ho had often otten een Booth and hi Ills his men were watch watch- watching watch watch-Ine ing the fugitive When ho crossed the rh rl er he was wa suspected and chased to the Garrett farm Baker and his men m n surround surround- surrounded ed the tho house and after some par r pir-ley pir icy ley the they ascertained that Booth and Herold were In tho the barn They demanded se several or III times that ho hocomo como come out Colonel Congers Conger s men nero ero ero surrounding the barn They threatened to set fire tiro to tho the barn and Herold emerged and surrendered surrendered surrendered dered Booth refused saying he would die In the last ditch The Thearn arn was set afire Boston Corbett a sergeant saw Booth through a II crack and dl orders shot him He lIe was and brought out by Congers Conger's men died In three hours The Tho body and was WI brought to Washington Identified by various men who knew Booth One Dr John F FMay May Identified the bod body by an ugly wound on the neck from an operation performed p some seine time be- be before be before fore tore Against his ph nil nil- ad advice vice Booth Insisted on acting and reopened the wound which healed bad badly I Booth was burled buried under a fed fed- federal federal fed federal eral prison and an accurate do- do detailed de detailed tailed report made of position and condition a as required Later Ed- Ed Edwin Edwin Ed Edwin win Booth actor brother of o the tho order allow allow- allowIng allowing ela er obtained an ing log him to see sea the tho bod body hoping that a II mistake had been made He viewed tho the body and Identified It as that ot of o ble lil brother lie He also called In dentists who Identified fillings In the teeth of ot the body which h made mado Identification positive ln Edin Booth claimed the body and burled buried It In the family bun ground ground at Baltimore In an un- un unmarked marked un-marked marked grave |