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.

50s., Life, C,me, and Oap,rI.'o/ JoAn Wilke Booth.
When that guerrilla heard of Booth's feat, said Captaun Jett, Dw.
ulaimed:
-i "Now, by! I could take that man in my arms."
Washington, as a precautionary measure, was doubly picketed at onee,
the authorities in all northern towns advised of the personnel of the mur
derer, and requests made of the detective chiefs in Baltimore, Philadelphia,
and New-York, to forward to Washington without delay their best decoys.
A court of inquiry was organized on the moment, and early in the week
succeeding rewards were offered. An individual, and not the government,
offered the first rewards.
There were two men without whom the hunt would have gone astray
many times.
John S. Young, chief of the New-York detective force, a powerful and
tesolute man, whose great weight and strength are matched by boundless
energy, and both subordinate to a head as clear as the keen and searching
warrant of his eye. This man has been in familiar converse with every
rebel agent in the Canadas, and is feared by them as they fear the fates of
tleall and Kennedy. Without being a sensationist, he has probably ren.
dered the cleverest services of the war to the general government. They
sent for him immediately after the tragedy, and he stopped on the way for
his old police companion, Marshal Murray. The latter's face and figure
are familiar to all who know New-York; he resembles an admiral on his
quarter-deck; he is a detective of fair and excellent repute, and has a some
what novel pride in what he calls "the most beautiful gallows in the
United States."
These officials were ordered to visit Colonel Ingraham'b office and examine
the little es;idence on hand. They and their tried officers formed a junction
on Sunday afternoon with the large detective force of Provost-Marshal
Major O'Bierne. The latter commands the District of'Columbia civil and
military pol.ice. lie is a New-Yorker and has been shot through the body
in the field.
The detective force of Young and Murray consisted of Officers Radford,
Kelso, Elder, and It0ey, of New-York; Deputy-Marshal Newcome, for' merly of Tiiz WORLD'S city staff; Officers Joseph Pierson and West, of
Baltimore.
Major O'Bierno's immediate aids were Detectives John Lee, Lloyd,
Gavigan, Coddingham, and Williams.
A detachnment of the Philadelphia detective police for Offieers Taggert, George Smith, and Carlin, reporting to Colonel Baker —went in the
direction of the North Pole; everybody is on the que vive for therem.
To the provost-marshal of Baltimore, MacPhail, who knew the tone and
bearing of the country throughout, was joined the zealous co-operation of
Officer Lloyd, of Major O'Bierne's staff, who had a personal feeling'against
the secessionists of lower Maryland; they had once driven him away for
his loyalty, and had reserved their hospitality for assassins.
Lieutenant Commander Cushing, I am informed, also rendered important
services to the governrianent jn connection with the police operations. Vol unteer detectives, such as Ex-M.arshal Lewis and Angelis, were plentiful;
it is probable that in the pitch of the excitement five hundred. detective
officers were in and around Washington city. At-the same time the secret
police of Richmond abandoinel their ordinary business, and devoted them selves solely to this overshadowing offense.
No citizen, in these terrible days, knows-what eyes were upon him ashe
talked and walked, nor how his stature and guise were keenly scanned by
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