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.

6 Tno Life, Crity, and Captulr of Kohl % Wlk*# Boot.
tweon Ninth and Tenth streets, and thence into an alley reloading to the
rear of Ford's Theater, which fronts on Tenth street, between E and F
streets. IHere he alighted and deposited the mare in a small stable off the
alley, which he had hired some time before for the accommodation of a
saddle-horse which he had recently sold. Mr. Booth soon afterward retired
from the stable, and if4 supposed to have refreshed himself at a neighboring
bar-roornm.
At 8 o'clock the same evening, President Lincoln and Speaker Colfax
sat together in a private room at the White House, pleasantly conversing
General Grant, with whom the President had engaged to attend Ford's
Theater that evening, had left with his wife for Burlington, New-Jersey, in
the 6f o'clock train. After this departure Mr. Lincoln rather reluctantly
determined to keep his part of the engagement, rather than to disappoint
his friends and the audience. Mrs. Lincoln, entering the room and turn ~~~~~~~~oir, h a l seiu g di
ing to MIr. Colfax, said, in a half laughing, half serious war, "Well, Afr.
Lincoln, are you going to the theater with me or not?' "I suppose I
shall have to go, Colfax," said the President, and the Speaker took his leave
in company with Mfajor Rathbone, of the Provost-Mfarshal General's office,
who escorted Miss Harris, daughter of Senator Harris, of New.-York. Mr.
and Afrs. Lincoln reached Ford's Theater at twenty minutes before 9
o'clock.
The house was filled in every part with a large and brilliantly attired
audience. As the presidential party ascended the stairs,and passed behind
the dress circle to the entrance of the private box reserved for them, the
whole assemblage, having in mind the recent Union victories, arose, cheer ed, waving hats and handkerchiefs, and manifesting every other-accustomed
* ign. of enthusiasm. The President, last to enter the box, turned before
Scene of the Assassaination.
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I President's Position. A The course of the Assassin after the MKurder. 12
Movable partition not in use on the night of the Assassination. D Door through which
the Assassin looked in taking aimr. a Closed door through which pistol ball wa fired.
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