The life, crime, and capture of John Wilkes Booth,: with a full sketch of the conspiracy of which he was the leader, and the pursuit, trial and execution of his accomplices./ By George Alfred Townsend.

ning, he dropped Ms pistol on the floor, and drawing a-bowiekife, struck
Major Rathbone, who opposed him, ripping through his coat from the
shoulder down, and inflicting a severe flesh wound in his arm. He leaped
then upon the velvet covered balustrade at" the front of the box, between
Mrs. Lincoln and Miss Harris, and, parting with both hands the flss that
drooped on either side, dropped to the stage beneath. Arising and turig
full upon the audience, with the knife lifted in his right hand above his
head, he shouted "Sic. temper tyranni-Virginia is avenged!" Another
instant he had fled across the stage and behind the scenes. Col uel J
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Position of Booth's IIorse.
B. Stewart, the only person in the audience who seemed to comprehend the
deed he had committed, climbed from his seat near the orchestra to the
stage, and followed close behind.' The assassin was too fleet and too deperate, that fury incarnate, meeting Mr. Withers, the leader of the orchs
tra, just behind the scenes, had stricken him aside with a blow that fortunately was not a wound; overturning Miss Jenny Gourlay, an ac,es
who came next in his path, he gained, without further hindrance, the back
door previously left open at the rear of the theater; rushed through it;
leaped upon the horse held by Mr. Spangler, and without vouchsafing that
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