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THE BODY OF
An Effort to Throw Light
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There has always been more or leas
mystery regarding tho remains of John
Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Presi
dent Lincoln. It has been contended
that the body of Booth Was neyer found
and Was never buried. On the other
hand relativos of Booth assert that
they! had recovered the body from the
Government at Washington and in
terred the remains in a cemetery at
Baltimore, Md.
Research among the archives of the
navy department proves conclusively
that tho body of Booth was in the
hands of the military authorities, but
what disposition was made of the ro
<*?f.?s is still sv mystery. Secretary
Gideon Welles, in a communication to
ih? commandant of the Washington
navy yard under dato pf April 15, I860,
said: "If the military! authorities ar
rest the murderer of the President and
take him to the navy yard, put him in
a monitor and anchor her out in the
stream with a strong guard on vessel,
wharf, and in n?vy yard. Call on com
mandant of marine corps for guard.
Have vessel immediately prepsred
ready to receive the orimioal at any
hour, day or night. He will be heavily
ironed and so guarded as to prevent
esoape or injury to himself.'' .
Twelve days later, April 27, 1865,
the commandent, of the Washington
navy yard reported to Secretary Welles
as follows: "David C. Harrold, pris
oner, and tho remains of Wilkes Booth
were delivered here at 1.45 this- morn*
ing. The body of Booth , is changing
rapidly. What disposition shall be
made of it. It is now on board iron*
dad Mop tank ."
Of the sam? date a joint order dated
10 o'clock A. M., and signed by Secre
taries Welles and Staunton, of the
navy and war departments respectively
waa received at tho navy yard, Saying:
uY0o will permit Surgeon Gen. Barnes
and his assistant, accompanied by
Judge Advooate Gen, Holt, the Hon.
John A. Bingham, Major. Eokhert,
William G. Moore, clerk of the warde*
parlment, Col. L. G. Baker, Lieut.
Baker,; Lieut; Col. Conger, Charles
Dawson, J. L. Smith? Mr. Gardner,
' photographer, and assistant, to go on
board the Montauk and seo tho body
of John Wilkes Booth. Immediately
after the surgeon general has made his
autopsy y on wilt h ava the Body placed
in a strong hov and deliver it to the
eharge bf Col. Baker, the hos being
ctref olly sealed."
' SjiorlJy before
dr ; -ri! 27?h, 1865, without any
: in?,, ?J?, .on to tho commandant at tho
navy yard, the .budy of Booth was sud
denly and SQorotly takon from the
Montaus; hy Col.; Baker, who' had
brought it early of the" morning of tho
same day. ; ,; '? 1
This mode of procedure was resented
by the commandant of the navy: yar?,
who wrota^ft 'T^f^?t^--^:-.^v -??vji
Apr i I 2?, 1665, 'regarding the transas
tion. In this letter - the. commandant
said: "By telegram yesterday after*
noon I reported to the department the
remo vat of the ?jodycf the assassin
Booth from- the''Mon tank to the United
WILKES BOOTH
Upon A Gruesome Mystery.
md Courier.
only restriction to viewiug the corpse
?ere to strangers and workingmen not
employed on the vessel. Persons,
known to the officers of the army and
navy ?ere permitted to comoon board.
A' lady, aooompanied by two naval
officers, came on board to visit tht.
ship end not tc gratify a morbid curi
osity.
About ll o'clock A.M. 8urgeonGen.
Barnes came on board, and, without
asking for the captain of the guard or
commanding officer of the' voanel, or
showing thy written authority or in
forming any officer who he wes, or
seeming to pay the slightest respect to
the military etiquette duo from one
military officer to another, walks up to
the corpse and commences to oat adrift
the wrapping. He was stopped with
the inquiry as to his authority for so
doing. He repli .<] by the order of the
secretaries of war and of the navy,
and afterwards Major Eokhtrt pro
duced a v,ritten order. Hair was out
from the oorpse by one of the assis*
tanto, who accompanied Sorgeon Gen.
Barnes, and I am led to believe that
I it was a portion of thst hair whioh
some naval officer very foolishly
boasted of possessing. As soon as the
order to permit no visitors except by
passes from the Secretary was reoeived
it was promptly obeyed. Tho proceed
ing of taking the body from the ship
was of the same informal naturo: ? am
s?rry to say that I was not present at
either time or I should have puta stop
to it."
There was no reply to this complaint
of the commandant from the. navy de
partment. Indeed the records plainly
show that the Secretary of War as
sumed and maintained supremo con
trol. He seemed to be under a state
of great fear ?hat the living assooiates
of Booth., who were confined aboard
the monitors, would escape or be
resetted from his hands* This fear ex
tended even to the body of the dead
assassin, and arbitrary restrictions io
regard to it'and the eojoioment of
secrecy in regard to the disposition
of it was strained to a degree that
amounted to disrespect to the com
mandant and disregard of the authority
that bad been imposed upon, hun as
custodian of the. body o? Booth.
in view of the joint order of Anni
27 by the Secretaries of War and Navy
td allow the surgeon genera), aooom
paniedby army officers and civilians,
with a photographer and - assistant tn
D?? ??iv body of Booth, tbs telegrams
addressed to the commandant on the
same day seemed unnecessarily severe
and eve o arbitrary. TheBe telegrams
worn signed by Gideon Welles, but
tbey were evidently inspired by the
! Secretary of War. "I am informed by
ibo Secretary'.of War,** says the .'first,
"that.portons were pern:itted to 7is?t
tho irott'ciads on board.of which -pris
oners are confined by bis and my order.
You will explain if this has^beec done
and yon will allow no persona tbvisit
theso vessels who /have not the JoTut
order of tho Secretary of War.and my
self until : the prisoners are removed,
from your custody," .
: Under the influence of fresh 'com
plaints ifrom the war department. au
wtlicir inesosge was sent the came day
reading: "Send to \ fee war dopirt
TOent in the morning ??pies of: (sil or
dora which you b a ve rf csived touching
Mo'^att?r of .vif iting iit commuuieat
ing with? the prisoners confioed On
^oard tb^ir^n-olads; also oopics of all
orders you have given sod copies of
any permits^ granted by yourself to
vi.eitors to go aboard thes?;^|js^.|fi?;:
Iteporfc the names of all visitors,- mile
?eud femaie? to see tho body of the
assassin, Booth j whether bis bair ma
touched ?^u^w?w?fc)authbr?ty^ .patties
Booth in the bara in lower Maryland
when the two fugitives were overtaken
by their pursuers. It will be recalled"
that the barn was set afire after Booth
had driven Harrold out and compelled
him to surrender to Ool. Baker and
his forces and tho assassin requested
the privilege of being permitted to
como out also and fight aa long as his
ammunition lasted. In reply the barn
wea set afire and Booth, being driven
from his hiding place by tho fi?mes,
proved an easy mark for Sergeant
Boston Corbett, who shot the crippled
assassin, putting a minie bullet in the
middle of bia forehead. Death was
instantaneous and the corpse was
brought to Washington by Col. Baker,
taken aboard the monitor cvtly io the
morning and subsequently the body
was removed in the' manner indioated
above and nothing official or authentic
has since been divulged as to the dis
position of the remains.
Atlante fireman Saw Vesuviue in Erup
tion.
"Only those who have witnessed
the terrors of the people during one of
the eruptions oaa appreciate just whit j I
the situation has been and now is,"
.aid Mrs. S. E. Gabbett, yesterday, as
she read with interest the latest ao
eounts of the-distress in far-away Italy.
Mrs. Gabbett was in Italy during
one of the last outbreaks of Vesuvius
in 1886.
She was at the Hotel del Sole, study
iog there with a group of friends who
were, interesting {themselves in the
ruins of Pompeii, and ahe had sketches
whioh she made herself of Vesuvius
and its appearance at that time.
Mrs. Gabbett gives graphio descrip
tion of the soenes preceding and fol
lowing the trouble, not omy in Italy,
but on the Island of Isohi.
'The first intimation I had that an
eruption was threatened was not from
the Italians themselves, bu\? from a
party of German scientists, who, in
tercGted in the situation, came to in
veBtigate for themselves. On their
j first visit and tour of investigation
? their observations were so interesting
11 determined to risk a pilgrimage my
self,- but could get none of my friends
to accompany me, the news of the prob
able outburst at any moment having
become current among the natives, as
well es among the colony of artista
assembled there from all parts of the
continent.
'Nothingdaunted, I engaged a corps
of eight attendants, wfy> would carry
my sedan chair up the mountain by
torch light, it requiring the effort of
four at one time so hot and huming
was the sand, and BO' uncertain their
stepa. When about half way up the
S rai s our i found the ashes and rooks
beneath their feet so uncomfortable
they had to bo velioved by tue others,
but we finally roached ? spot next the
O?UJU???, T7UPTO W9 lettiaS ourselves
for observation..
"Very near ?s, near enough almost
for ns to, hear their voioes, I beheld a
lady in ft sedan chair, surrounded by
a email party of people. Looking the
second time I realised that it waa
Queen.Marguerita. Almost at the mo
ment, a guard approached and spoke to
her, and tho party hurried down the
mOwstain. jy?y guide rolled a pieoe of
paper, stuck it in the ground - almost
at my feet and brought it out aflame?
A spurt of lava ascended high in the
air, particles of it s truck his sleeve and
singed it; tho a oles of nay; shoes were
scorching; and then it was be who in
sisted upon our immediate descent,
; **Although it had taken quit e three
SS HV?? iii gO Up, lu .Ot"*"
scarcely eight or ten. minutes for the
homeward trip.
"Reaching the .base, and noting
some distance away, we Jooked back
to see a fresh"; '?rater burst from tho
mountain and entirely submerge the
very spot where we had all stood but
t?n minnies before.
&Wben we reached the hotel nay
|s were all awaiting me in great
excitement. > The feot of our venture
some trip had been heard of, and the
subsequent ?ruption, before our return,
had exoited alarm^.v.
Of .the Island of Isohia, where near
so town of Casimjccola, is Ipomeo, thc j
father of all the volcanoes in that ^
! cinity, Mrs. Gabbett related another
interesting story, having Visited there
immediately, af tey ? dreadful volcanic
eruption whop as many as a thousand
[U?it?$*?t?:iMi?? this taking pig?e
in 1888. ... .
\H *m? islen* of; Isohia,'* esp?ain?d
Mrs. Gabbett, ' ^is famous lc? ?s
springs of boiling waters and for that
reason, as wei! as Us ititcreafcsto ar
tists, hundreds of senile . ?oek --.:gtj&
ufjajfihe season, One el Cha popular
oUltf La Piooola Sente?ie? was where
I had arranged to stay, wfces the -news'
>?f ^saa^-T???h^iwe?;^: * ? . ' "
?;; ;; ? seawst -wai at i ts h oigls t iu Oas
\ imi?o?s, ' and ' amen*f|^.i[^nion?We
j people asgembled in tho music room
[ cf tho hotel oit a fete occasion was a-}
j number of Relish people among whoa
.waa a talented musician who Was
' asked t? play. " v . '.lpg
"His mu?tc was^ not o? rtte nature
liked by an Italian member of the par*;
liatoatti; presVni'r and ^hen th? liiikr
hoard the strains of the dead tunton
sounding from, tho piano, he exclaimed j
to a friend: ?Th?t? is too mueh of the f
irU. about that, mu?io: I ant
suffocating; I am going into tho air,'
and ho stepped from the terrace to the
gardens adjoining.
"Within the minute almost there
was the violent earthquake, the erup
tion from Ipomeo, and of the several
hundred people in the hotel, the
Italian member, of parliament was the
only survivor.
"The hotel and. oil within it were
submerged and to the other side of it
where was tho central portion of tho
town several thousand people lay dead
beneath the ashes.
"It was but shortly after this, de
spite the warnings given mo, that I
?rent to the island, where the stricken
people were dazed with irrepressible
lousou they had met with.
"Then it was that Kiog Humbert \
proved his heroism, when after the
trouble he hastened from his summer
[tome aoross the bay to Isohia.
"He was met on the shore by the
people, who prostrated themselves at
bis feet, begging bim to help tb om.
The work of unesrthing those who
might still be alive was going on, and
that of identifying the dead,
"The king, in the intensity of his
feeling, himself took tho implements
sf work, and assisted in bringing to
3 ar tb, those who still lived, Rad when
those around him would beoome wear
ied with the strain he would encourage* J
them with the'words: 'Try a little
longer; there may be some one else we
Cheese "Hos' Too Fur Gone."
The old Virginia darkey who has
boen from the time he was ten years
of age the dining room servant of one
of our aristocratic famines, says the
Washington Post, is noted for his
Chesterfioldian manners. And as a
waiter, oleaner, and everything else
for whioh a house servant is wanted,
he is not equalled by his latter-day
brethren, whose main oooupati?n, if
he has been to school and can read a
little, is that of a hotel waiter or Pull
man oar porter.
Having some company to tea one
night, I remembered that two of my
friends were fond of Limburger cheese,
I bought a pound package and took it
home with.me. On my arrival old
Uncle Iaaso met me as, ?sual with his
accustomed salutation of "Good even
in', boss." I said to him:
"Uncle Isaao, you will find among
other things in that cox a paokage of
cheese, and I want it on the table to
night."
"All right, boss; I'll have it."
"Don't you forget it,*' said I.
"Oh, no suh; I ain't g.-ji* fergit.it.
Til have it, ehoV'
r?ov7, Uncle Isaao had seen every
kind of cheese in his life, hut this was
his first experience with the Limbur
ger '
When I took my company into tho
dining room the old fellow was stand
ing near the'table, with a long, white
apron on, and a Waiter under his arm,
ready' jump if any one looked to
ward him. Not seeing th? ?hees?; ?
said to him, quietly :
"Ut ? lo Isaac, where's the cheese?"
With a look of great disappoint
ment, ho turned to my wife, as if to ;
say, ? "Please, marm, come to my res
cuer' hut my wife only smiled. I re
peated my question, .then with .more
emphasis.. "Unole Issaao, where's
the cheese?" He esme shuffling up
to me sideway s and being too polite to
let the guests hear what ho had to
say, whispered, softly, in my ear,
"BOBS, it was mps' too fur gone, an I
flung it away." %
Wim >
- Spa wiU never be accused of
cheating at cards . aa long as you
? bleached blond is always sus
picious of other women with blond
r
ip
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no less a romance. ^
Mrs. Ward, a believertn tb
contracts advanced by George r\
husband on an automobile tour I
purpose of securing a divorce on
of temper," which, m reality, do a
several arc ?dVnt? and the ?ntcm
. ?y?jjcir, wnn?ts. - '
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If yo ur Ix?kttUtr hain't t?, the fubii;
mfon reut.
Publishers
Brothers.
Bishop Komper, of Kansas, was the
viotim of a hold-up one night whon
ho was the only passenger. . The
driver told the rond agent, who had
covered him with a six-shooter, that
his only passenger was a bishop.
"Well," said the robber, wake up
the old man, I want to go through his
pookots."
When the bishop was aroused /rom
a sound slumber and realized the situ
ation he gently remonstrated with tho
man behind the gun. He said:
"Surely you would not rob a poor
bishop. I have no money worth your
while, and I am engaged in the dis
charge of my sacred dutios."
"Did you say you were a bishop?"
asked the road sgent.
"Yes, just a poor bishop."
"What ohuroh?"
"Thc Episoopal churoh."
"Tho hell you arel Why that's
the ohuroh I behfog to. Driver, you
may pass on.''-Right Rev. Ethel
bert, in Harper's Magazine.
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The Family Spoons.
While tummsging through the
drawers of a bookcase in her daugh
ter's room in search of some of somo
writing-paper the other day, Mrs.
Wimberling oame upon a bundle of
letters tied with a pink ribbon and
emitting a faint perfume.
She untied the bundle and glanced
through several of the letters.
Then sho picked them up, went
downstairs and confronted hor daugh
ter.
"Eunice," she paid, in a high state
of indignation, "who io the idiot that
you're corresponding with, I'd like to
know? Of all the lovesick trash I
j ever saw this is absolutely the worot.
I ohall consider it my duty to report
the matter to your father if this thing
goes any further. Who wrote these
lotterB?"
"I am not going to lie to you about
them, mamma," said Miss Eunice
serenely. "If you will put on your
glssses and look at them again you
will find that they're a loi. of old let
ters papa wrote to you when you were
? a girl."-Popular Magazine.
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Boy Made Good.
At Toledo, Ohio, by a surgical ope
I ration Harold Hurley, twelve years
old, who was cns of the worst boys in
the city, has' been made "good."
He was so naughty that he had been
sentenced to the reform school. Then
his mother remembered that he bad
onoe suffered a fractured skull, and she
decided to try an operation on his
head. This was done and a bone near
ly an inch long was found imbedded
in the brain. Physicians did not ex
pect results bofore six months, but
the desired has been quiekiy at
tained.
From an incorrigible, who would
jump out of the window at night to
sMy downtown and sleep in alleys
from a boy in whom parental love was
wholly wanting-Harold Hurley bas
been transformed into a traoubie lov
ing and thoughtful ohild. The happy
outoome of the operation ?B a vindica
tion for the boy 3 mother, who could
never believe ho was wilfully guilty of j
I tnany bad things he did.
In the Country.
When the thermometor had dropped
far below cero good Mrs. Rogers was
much disturbed at the recollection that
Huldah, the oew kitchen maid, slept
in an unheated room. "Huldah," she
said, remembering the good old custom
of her own ?!?!ho?d, "H's going to be
Crotty cold tonight. I think you hsd
otter take a flatiron to bed with you."
"Yes, ma'am," said Huldah, in
mild and expressionless assent.
Mrs. Rogers slept soundly and free
frora care, secure in the belief that
the maid was comfortable. In the
morn:ne she again visited the kitchen:
"Well, Huldau," she asked, "how
did you get along with the flatiron?"
Huldah breathed a deep sigh of re
collection.
"Well, ma'am," she said, "I got it
pearly waru before morning!"
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