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.

30 PT, life. Ce,C',,, an Capture of John Whke# Boota.
This is the court-house town of Caroline county- small and spattred
place, having within it an ancient tavern, no longer used for other than
lodging purposes; but here they hauled from his bed the captain aforesa.d,
and bade him dress himself. As soon as he comprehended the matter he
became pallid and eagerly narrated all the facts in his possession. Booth,
to his knowledge, was then lying at the house of one Garrett, which they
had passed, and Harold had departed the existing day with the intention of
rejoining him.
Taking this captain along for a guide, the worn out horsemen retraced,
though some of the men were so haggard and wasted with travel that they
had to be kicked into intelligence before they could climb to their saddles.
The objects of the chase thus at hand, the detectives, full of sanguine pur
pose, hurried the cortege so well along that by 2 o'clock early morning, all
halted at Garrett's gate. In the pale moonlight three hundred yards from
the main road, to the left, a plain old farmhouse looked grayly through its
environing locusts. It was worn and whitewashed, aud two-storied, and its
half-human windows glowered down upon the silent cavalrymen like watching owls. which stood as sentries over some horrible secret asleep within.
The front of this house looked up the road toward the Rappahannock,- but
did not face it, and on that side a long Virginia porch protruded, where, in
the su-ammer, among the honeysuckles, the humming bird flew like a visible
odor. Nearest the main road, against the pallid gable, a single-storied
kitchen stood, anid there were three other doors, one? opening upon the porch,
one in the kitchen gable, and one in the rear of the farmhouse. -
Dimly seen behind, an old barn, high and weather-beaten, faced the
roadside gate, for the house itself lay to the left of its own lane; and
nestling beneath the barn, a few long corn-cribs lay with a cattle shed at
hand. There was not a swell of the landscape anywhere in sight. A plain
dead level contained all the tenements and structures. A worm fence
stretched along the road broken by two battered gate posts, and between
Plan of Garrett's House.
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A Door through which the dying man was bronught. B Corner at which the bam ws
&red - 0 Spot in the barn on which Booth stood. D Point where Corbett fired. A
t'orob where Booth died. G Door at Wlich Lixteutenant Baker knocke H Shed,.
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