The escape and suicide of John Wilkes Booth : or, The first true account of Lincoln's assassination, containing a complete confession by Booth

Author:Bates, Finis Langdon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Publisher: Naperville, IL : J. L. Nichols

THE HAND OF SECRETARY STANTON.

"The men spoken of by young Garrett as coming back were Herold and Ruddy, returning from Bowling Green, as prearranged at the Rappahannock Ferry, and explained to me by St. Helen (Booth) to meet Booth, who they found had gone. They remained that night with the Garretts. There was no one with Booth at the Garrett's, and when he left he left alone. Ruggles and Bainbridge corroborate St. Helen (Booth), and say that when they returned to the Garrett home and notified Booth to leave they looked for Herold, who had not yet returned to Booth, and that Booth straightway left by himself, in the direction which they pointed out to him. So the allusion by young Garrett to the two men returning had no reference to Booth's return, for at the time Booth left the Garrett home Herold and Ruddy had not yet reached there on their return from Bowling Green.

"Young Garrett, continuing, said to Baker: 'We could not leave home before morning, if at all. We were becoming suspicious of them and father told them they could not stay with us.'

" 'Where are they now?' interrupted Baker.

" 'In the barn. My brother locked them in for fear they would steal the horses. He is now keeping watch on them in the corn crib.'

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