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Show the hanging of WIrtz. th prison keep-er,at keep-er,at Washington; Including negatives negat-ives of Mrs. Surrat and the Lincoln conspirators hanging: on the gallows. Records in the war department were Introduced to prove their authenticity together with a congressional enactment enact-ment In which It wan shown that Brady was paid $27,000 for taking the negatives. . -The corroborative evidence from all parts, of the country became so-overwhelming that today the attorneys for the plaintiff announced that the do-, fendants had admitted their error, Issued a clear, frank statement of the "authenticity Vf" the' negatives lo pov bcsslon of Edward H. Eaton, and made a substantial money payment to cover the. damages Mr. -Eaton, states that this closes'the historic controversy In one of the. most Interesting law. suits or the times. The tragic phaso of these- priceless legatlvos, about which this protracted law suit has beeu waged, la that Brady the first of . the world's war photographers, photo-graphers, met financial reverses and was forced to assign his properly, ly-ing ly-ing some years ago In poverty in a charitable. Institution near New York. "Brady was a genius,' said Mr. Eaton, Ea-ton, In speaking of him todav. "I understand . that before the war he was an art Ktudent In Paris, At one time he accumulated a large fortune, but lost it. I do not think that he even knew where these negatives woro at the time of his death. It is onef of the tragdles of history." PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCENE9 DURING THE CIVIL WAR Washington. D. C. Feb. 10 The law suit over the $150,000 collection of original or-iginal negatives taken during the-Civil the-Civil War, by Mathew. Brady and j Alexander Gardner, under the author-. Ityot the government and the pro-, toctlon of tho Secret Service, camo to an abrupt end today. -- Tho suit, which has been several-years several-years In progress, has Involved several sev-eral hundred witnesses. Including tho statements of prominent army officials offi-cials '.affidavits of "old soldiers, and" war department records; Ita acts date back to 1861. Allnn Tlnkerton, founder of tho Pinkerton Detective Agency, and first chief of the secret service, and known throughout the Civil war under the alias of "Major Allan," authorized author-ized Brady and Gardner, two of tho first operators in' outside wet plato Photography, to enter the lines of tho Union army and tako photographs of fortifications, encampments, and army, movements. Proofs were deposited de-posited with the government, while original negatives remained the property prop-erty of the photographers, who stored , them in warehouses. I ' Four ye-ars ngo, Edward B. Eatou, a prominent antiquarian of Hartford, Conn., came to Washington with a bill of sale transferring the title of 7,000 of these valuable negatives to his ownership. The property, which was stored in the warehouse at 920 E street, X. W., was delivered Into his possession and the historic negatives wcro removed lo Hartford and placed In n vault. Thc recovery of the negatives created cre-ated wide Interest, throughout the Grand Array of the Republic aud during dur-ing the discussion Dr. 11. C. McClurg. of Davenport. Iowa, denounced the authenticity au-thenticity of tho negatives, stating emphatically that wet plate photography photo-graphy was not sufficiently developed during 1S6-t; to take these remarkable remark-able negatives. Th Davenport Democrat Demo-crat and leader published this state-runt, state-runt, which resulted In a suit bclncj brought against that newspaper for $.'.0,000 libel and damages by Mi. Eaton, Ea-ton, attorneys Clark, and Hutchinson of fH's Moines representing tho plaln-titt, plaln-titt, and Lane and Waterman of Dav-tnoort Dav-tnoort the defendants. Tho evidence that developed proved a revelation. Negatives were produced produc-ed showing President Lincoln on the battlefield of Antietam with Allan Pinkerton. in the tent with General McClellnn. and In conference with of-Ifcers of-Ifcers of the army. It was a decided re ligation In Grand Army circles when negatives were produced showlDg the Interior of Andersonvillo prison and |