Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 150, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1965 Page: 3 of 16
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Lincoln Mystery Unsolved
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shows that we hate made little
progress in protecting our chief
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VICTIM: Lncoln’s last photographic portrait, made in
Washington on April 19, 1865, by Alexander Gardner.
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tury has passed since Lincoln's
death, is that he was murder-
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Brownwood, Texes
The documents in the case
were kept sealed for many years
and were not fully explored un-
the National Archives.) Secret
Service material which conceiv-
ably might have had some bear-
ing on the assassination was not
declassified until 1953
TRIAL BUNGLED
No remarkable new material
has turned up in recent years.
The military commission bun-
gled the trial so badly that it
left whole areas of possible com-
plicity unexplored and thus gave
anyone involved a chance to de-
stroy evidence and swear his
associates to silence.
But students of the case never
give up hoping that important
evidence may be discovered.
They once thought that the Rob-
ert Todd Linclon papers in the
Library of Congress might cast
new light on the assassination
because Nigholas Murray But-
ler. president of Columbia Uni-
versity. said he had persuaded
Lincoln’s son to preserce a
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dent of the United States than
it is to be a top-ranking general
hr the field.
CLOSE RANGE
Lincoln was killed by a single-
shot derringer fired at close
i cape to that British port and
go to Europe or Mexico after his
deed in Washington was done
But the government's case
against Jefferson Davis and his
associates quickly collapsed
of the Army and the Navy, was
an offense against the laws of
war.”
The officers sitting in judg-
ment sentenced four of the ac-
cused to be hanged and the.
other four to be imprisoned. It
then disbanded leaving many
clues uninvestigated and many
questions unanswered
it is these that tinge the Lin
coin assassination with mystery
and place it high among the
famous unsolved murder cases
of the world
The mysteries began on the
night of the slaying when it was
discovered that Weshington’s
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the life of his secretary of state.
The man assigned to kill An-
drew Johnson lost heart and fled.
What happened to Grant's sup-
posed assassin is not known
Booth met his death in Vir-
ginia when a tobacco barn in
which he had taken refuge was
set on fire. Attempts have been
made to show that he lived on,
but the undying folk figure be-.
longs to legend, not history . I
REBS SUSPECTED
Since all the known conspira-
tors were Southerners, the Nor-1
them government tried to im-
plicate the leaders of the Con-
federacy in Booth's plot. Suspi-
cion was directed against them
largely because they had secret
agents operating against the
United States. Some of these
agents were stationed in Can-
ada
When a bill of exchange, dat-
ed Oct 27. 1864 and drawn on
the Montreal bank that was the
chief depository for Confederate
secret service funds, was found
on Booth's body, it began to
look as if the government had
a case The date was especial-
ly significant tor it was then
that the conspiracy in Canada
was most active.
It was also shown that Booth
had shipped his theatrical ef-
fects from Montreal to Nassau
— a move which seemed to in-
dicate that he expected to es-
when its witnesses turned out
to be a seedy lot of perjurers,
double spies, and unscrupulous
mercenaries
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The eight people who were
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Service men all around, but
they could not prevent a well-
aimed rifle from doing its dead-
ly work Both men had said
that it would be easy tn assassi-
nate them if a desperate killer
was willing to risk his life.
There was much talk about
conspiracy in each case. but,
the Warren Report, published
in 29 volumes, stated positively
that President Kennedy’s slayer
had acted alone.
The Lincoln murder, however,
was the result of a widespread
conspiracy because Booth had a
number of accomplices, eight of
whom were brought to trial
Some of the mysterious figures
who helped him escape from
Washington may have been men
in high places.
PLAND CHANGED
Booth had originally intended
to seize Lincoln and take him
to Richmond to be exchanged
for a large number of Southern-
ers who were being held in
Northern prison camps. When
the Confederate government
evacuated Richmond, and Lee
surrendered to Grant at Appo-
mattox on April 9. abduction
was no longer possible.
Booth then quickly decided to
Since two other presi
Garfield and McKinley,
slain during the period bel
these two killings, it is evi
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kill. He also planned to have
his a c c o m p lices assassinate who had deserted his post at
Vice President Andrew Johnson the entrance to the Presidents
and Secretary of State William box Oddly engugh, Mrs. Lin-
H Seward There is also some coin had asked for this Wash-
reason to believe that an at- ington policeman to be appoint-
tempt was to be made on Gen- ed, to the White House although
eral Grant's life Booth hoped he had a record of drunkenness
that these simultaneous slayings and absence from duty.
would paralyze the Northern It did not publish the pro-
government and give the South ceedings of the trial Newpa-
another chance pers reported each day s.testi
Terror struck Washington mony in some detail, and four
when people heard that Lincoln ■ court record were issued com-
had iee "Si a one mercially. Their accuracy is
ment that a desperate but un- open 1° question and none is
successful attack was made on truly complete._______________
hours at this crucial time.
NAME GIVEN
Next mystery When Booth
reached the Navy Yard Bridge
he gave his name to the sentry:
Yet this positive clue to the di-
rection the President's assassin
had taken was not immediately
followed up.
The greatest mystery of all
is a statement which Booth
wrote in his diary while he was
waiting to cross the Potomac.
In it he said:"I have . almost
a mind to return to Washington
and in a measure clear my
name, which I feel I can do."
After Booth’s death, this diary
was given to Secretary of Wat
Stanton. It was never even men-
tioned d u r i n g the conspirator’
trial And then, when it was
finally made public in 1867. It
pages had been cut out. The de-
tective who had seen the little
book on the day it was taken
from Booth's body said that it
had more pages then.
There were many faults and
omissions in the way the case
. was handled, but worst of all
is what the military commission
did not do.
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trunkful of documents he wanted
to bum But nothing revealing
about the assassination was
found when the papers were
made public in 1947.
All we know now, after a cen-
ed under circumstances so sus-
picious that book after book has
been written to survey various
aspects of the case They never
come to any positive conclusion
because lack of evidence makes
that impossible
Against all charges the uncer-
tain verdict “Not Proven" still
stands.
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Johf Wilkes Booth mortally
wounded President, Abraham
charged with being Booth » ac-
-complices were tfied before a
military commission because the
killing of the President, who was
, ly also the Commander in Chief
more dangerous to be the presi-
repeating rifle equipped with a
telescopic sight. In both cases
the brain was shattered, and
the victims never regained con-
sciousness.
Lincoln was shot in Ford's
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Lincoln on April 14 865 That
this centenary should\come so
soon after the assassihation of
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Gage, Larry. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 150, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 8, 1965, newspaper, April 8, 1965; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1489803/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.