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ing trip at Boca fliar.de li.s, Florida. This catch 'Was made on the
t2IIi of .Tune. 1!)10, between the hours of S a. m. and 12 o'clock, noon.
Mr. latult'd '-' 1 during his short stay there.
HETTY GREEN, THE
IMJMiCIEff
Fought Men F:r!m New
England Tu Texas.
not have any use for It, but would
like a little co-operation for thi
endi rf justice.
The ruilioad managers were very
agreeable to a partnership If they
did not have to pa those loans. She
nskHl their opinion of a eerluin
judge, and her partners thereupon
determined that ha was not much
of a Judge after all. and Hetty cool
ly said: "Well, you put him on the
bench and you can take him off or
Here it is. come and sret it. Given away einnc-.e" Sn-iV.
in premiums on Horse Shows, Races, $250 One Mile Derby.
Mules, Cattle and Hogs. $100 Automobile Parade.
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a Chicago Judge and
a Relative.
P0S8ES3LQ UKUSUAL ABILiTV 'STSLr ,
Chicago high with fruits and wines,
.... r- nt n .. r . v:.i. "lined the judge and nominated him
Hie Game Of Getting ben Yit!i for a hlgI,ei. orace whlIo ,, re8,BIlcd
I the lower one. And then Hetty said,
In privately telling the taio. "They
left him to elect himsslf; the last 1
i heard of him ho v.'as diiiiklng him
self to death."
Hetty Oreen fought her relative,
V. W. Crapo. of New ngland, for
many years. Money she was to In
herit he Invested in Kansas rnilioad
bonds that declined to 10 cants on
the dollar, and she sue.l him to
make good.
Suspicion was a large part of
her nature. When engaged In this
OF WILKES BOOTH
The Noted Assassin
President Lincoln.
Of
As
y STOHiES ARE RELATED
To His Identification No-
body Knows Where His
Bones Lie Buried.
WIIKUKA lions , OIA.W.EAULE
MUM' A PODII, I.ONK WOMAN"
(Bostou News Bureau.)
Hetty Green did not die me rich
Cht woman in the vwnld, as alleged
in some newspapers, lor many:
years she had not been in good
nnallh ami had not husbanded herj
yjrwpertiea. She was liorn under In
Jluences which made her a i.rin-ml-m-r.
Slie wore men's high t ,p boots,'
;in) had moie tinancial ., use in1
them than most men. She was mi-,
'The body burled in Greenrnount
was not that of Booth," declared
Basil Motley, a pall-bearer at the al
leged funeral of Lincoln's as-sassir.
In Baltimore. '
"1 do not believe that Booth was
ever killed In that barn," added
Moxley, who for nearly a half cen
tury had been doorkeeper In Balti
more at the Holllday Street Theater
and at Ford's Opera House. He was
a trusted friend of the Booth family
litigation in New Bedford she would and a cyclopedia of information con
not truht a living soul even to cookjcernlng the stage folk of his time,
her food. She bought apples at the Many men have, shared Moxley's
corner grocery, selected her own ' doubt as to the most commonly ac-
ly feminine at heart, but veiled he r , cooked them hcrgclf an( al).,ccpte(, versIon of tho capturc. shoot
tfe.ulninlty with Uded garments anil , B(1, n(.pende..t. deflqd the lug and burial of Lincoln's assassin.
e .1 ..!. ..! iti.il.'.n ' in riinli alia , . k
fraved cloak, under which sue
schemed and fought both as man I
-ami woman. She was New England
liorn and often hought advice in
Boiton. The advice she wanted was
not financial, for, like all true fi
'iianciers, Hetty Green listened autl
acted and never sought the guld-'
Mnce of anybody in financial affairs.
The advice she wanted was usually
liow she could whip somebody and,
then how she could whip her law-'
yerfl, for she was averse to anybody (
naming the figure which she should
pay for any Berire. i
She fought from New Kngland
which for four years had been kept
by an Enid undertaker. In his com
munication to Congress Mr. Bates
stated:
J "I knew Booth as John D. Heley
j while living In 1S72, nnd wa3 asso
ciated with him as my client until1
liie ian oi inui, v.ueu we seimiaieu
in Western Texas, lie going to Lead
ville, Colo., and I returning to Mem
phis. Booth left with mo a small
tintype for his future identification.
Tills picture was taken some 12
years after the nssasslnation of Lin
coln, and has been Identified by
Junius Brutus Booth, oldest nephew!
of John Wilkes Booth, as being the1
picture f his uncle. It has also
been ldt' '"FmI by the famous actor,1
the late u.;eph Jefferson, nnd many
others."
About a score of years ago one
Christopher C. Bitter, while lying
very low in a hospital at Anderson,
Ind., Is alleged to have unburdened
his conscience by confessing that af
ter having been initiated Into tho
Knights of the flolden Circle by
Booth, he had been pressed (o take
part in a kidnaping of President
Lincoln, but that before the plan
was carried out, Booth .killed the
President. Accompanying the as
sassin to Philadelphia, Bitter claim
ed that he sailed with him for South
America, where Booth became
"Knos," the famous actor of Latin
America.
According to another story, one
which has gained the most cre
dence, Bootli became an Episcopal
clergyman and settled in a Georgia
town, where lie was visited by his
brother, Edwin Booth. He contin
ued to limp until death, nnd failed
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world and all antagonists. According to that version the de-
"So my foolish old trustee, Mr. 'mented actor, after shooting the
Crapo, wants to he Oovernor of' President, and after breaking his leg
.Massachusetts, does he?" said Hetty 'while making his escape, took rer-ialso to disguSe j,js iove for liquor
Creen and blie looked over the po- uge in Clarrett's tobacco barn, nearjaml llls imper0U8 temper. Another
llllcal field as no other woman had Bowling Green, Va. The barn wasj9tory las ,t tnat the assassln spent
ever looked over it before. Then ' surrounded by 28 veterans of the tj,0 jater days of nIg 1Ife un(jer tne
engineers and a gang of workmen Sixteenth New York Cavalry, who,jame ot David E. George, and that
began building a dam across a big fearing to go in and capture one de- j,e marricd a Kentucky widow; their
fiant man, set the building on iircchIId( a daughter, winning success
and then shot Booth as he appeared upon tile stage.
to tako aim at his pursuers. In New Orleans, Louisville, Den-
through New Voile, Chicago and St.
Louis to Texas. When homebody
-wanted to get away with a railroad
in Texas, they found Hetty Green on
the spot. Shu redeemed the road,
SDt it going and won the cheers of
.tliu Texans.
When .she felt that an unright
eous decision hud been rendered
sigainst her in Chicago she bided
her time. Then, when money was
ungettable in Wall street. Hetty
Creen had it to loan. When the
Clcaring-houfce Committee appealed
to hur she remaiked, with a non
chalant air, that she was jubt a poor
lone woman and did not know much
.about investments, but did the
Clesi lug-house hold for the banks I nate W
New England river while the politi
cal war bosses in Massachusetts
wore sparring for position. "Here,
what do you mean, Mrs. Green?"
said a New England multi-millionaire
who had his paper mills below
on the river. "Are you going to
The commonly accented story of
what next happened relates that
Booth's body was sewed up In a sad
dle blanket and carried aboard the
monitor Mpntauk, where it was laid
In the carpenter's bunk of the tur
ret. After an autopsy In Washlng-
j
.my demand loans ot railroads ter
minating In Chicago? They replied
that they had such paper by the mil
lloii. Hetty Green In an Innocent
Kind of way passed over her millions
nnd scanned the papr that she had
.invested in at a very
rate of dlfacnuut. The
build a factory?"
"Not at present." said Mrs. Green,
"I am just building a dam and it
will take some time to float water ton, it was placed in a pine gun-box
behind that dam."
"I guess it will," said the largo
manufacturer. "Why, Mrs. Green, '
do you know that If you build that
dam and hold back that water, my
mills must be idle all summer? I
will buy your dam and your water
rights." i
"No," said Hetty. "I must hold
my water rights; you hold my po
litical rights. I cannot vote; but
you men can make the politics in ,
the Republic;1.!! party ot Massachu
setts. ou are planning to nomi-
W. Crapo for Governor and
a nomination is equivalent to an
election." i
"Well, what of that?" said the
manufacturer. i
"Only this, that you aro the one
and secretly buried beneath the floor
of a cell In the old Washington Pen
itentiary. After nearly four years
had elapsed the great actor, Edwin
Booth, persuaded President Andrew
Jackson to allow the pine box to be
removed to Baltimore for secret bur
ial in Grcenmount Cemetery.
Since the black tragedy of 'C5
there have been advanced more than
i0 theories to the effect that Wilkes
Booth escaped to enjoy, or, at least,
experience, life for ii considerable
time after his corpse was believed to'orpse,
have molded in the grave. General
Eckert, who was Assistant Secretary
of War when Lincoln was assassinat
ed and who later became President
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, was once quoted as hav-
ver, Albuquerque, San Francisco
and Montreal the man who shot
Lincoln has been "located" In re
cent years. Improbable as the
many theories as to his escape may
seem, and after all of them have
been sifted out and discarded,
Wilkes Booth has nevertheless be
queathed to the world a mystery
that has never been solved.
W,here Ho the bones of the man
shot in the Garrett barn, whose
body was brought to Washington
nnd dissected?
No one knows.
It is generally believed that tho
mound alleged to mark the assas
sin's grave in Greenmount Cemetery,
.Baltlmorp, covers no human re
mains. For fear of vandalism the
Booth family very wisely hid the
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man In Massachusetts thut can pre- jnK confessed to his nurse, on his
reasonable ( vent it, and if you don't your Paper deathbed, that with three other men
Wall-street mills will dry up this summer at. ho had taken the bodv of Booth out
bunkers were happy and so was least. I am only a poor lone worn- on Delaware Bay and thrown it into
HeH. man with no political voice, but 1 1 the water. A secret service man as-
TJitun Who knew hor can Imagine know "y relative Is no proper bus-sgned to the assassination was quot
the delight which she took In pen- lness man." td as stating that tho Identification
nlng a few notes to those Chicago The bargain was quickly struck. 0f the corpbo supposed to havo been
roarts in a dainty feminine hand, an- '"e inm wasi never Jlnistied, and hooth's was never satisfactorily
w. w. urapo was never (iovernor of
Massachusetts.
nounclng that bho lielrt their de
mand loans and would they kindly
:omo along with tho cash?
'T'jh telephones and the telegraphs
rtG"l busily; the Clearing-house
(Committee was berated and the
chairman of the committee attempt
ed explanation. Ho called up Mrs.
'Croon and she responded in her
aweetest tone, "Just send those Chl
oa'go hoys up to see me and perhaps
my bite Is not so "bad as my bark."
Up to Mrs. (ireon'g they went, nn
liumhlo lot of Chicago railroad men.
Hut Hetty was more humble than
they, She said she was only one
lone female In the world with no
man to help her and that the rail
roads owned Chicago and could
alonu secure justice. Sho of courso,
could not
Silent But Eloquent.
Otto II. Knhn, who has given his
i beautiful estate in England as a
jhome for blind soldiers, was talking
about tliu horrors of war.
"The other day," ho bald, "two
men on a Hoboken pier saw a huge
cargo of wooden legs being loaded
on 'a steamer for shipment to Eu
rope. " 'Thoso wooden legs,' said the
first man, 'are a mighty eloquent ar
gument against war, are they not?
" 'Yes,' the other man agreed;
'they are what you might call stump
speeches.' "
mim i
When a fellow tells a girl bo
loves her for all ho is worth, sho
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Sho said sho was not an parucu-; naiurauy wants to Know now mucn
lar about the money; la (act. did ho la worth.
made. Such doubts and contradic
tions reiterated by men closely con
cerned in the search for tho assassin
led to the suspicion that greed for
tho $7C,000 reward offered for
Booth by the Government resulted
In the shooting ot another man.
A few years ago Laura Ida Booth
(Mrs. L. A. Howard), an actress,
who has claimed to be the daughter
ot Wilkes Booth, announced that
her father lived until 1903, when
his long-troubled conscience led him
to commit suicide at Enid, Okla. A
Memphis attorney, Fred L, Bated,
who knew tho Enid suicide and who
believes him to have been Lincoln's
assassin, has published a book in
support of the theory. Some years
ago Mr. Bates appealed to tho Na
tional House of Representatives to
definitely determine the Identity ot
the umbalmed corpse of the suicide,
A skeptic Is a man who won't be
lieve ills own conscience.
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