Show death of captain doherty herty new york april 5 captain edward P doherty died at his home in this city yesterday of heart disease aged 50 56 years in 1861 lie he enlis enlisted as a private in the union army ile iio became captain of the sixteenth new york ca cavalry valry and after Lincol ns assassination was detailed with fifty men inen to capture booth then a fugitive in a barn they having surrounded As captain doherty sprang in to seize booth booth raised a gun before he be could fire at doherty sergeant boston corbetts bullet alred through a knothole knot hole killed him |