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

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""Giving in full detail the plans, plot, and intrigue of the conspirators, and the treachery of Andrew Johnson, then Vice-President of the United States"--T.p Lincoln-Booth -- John St. Helen -- John St. Helen lectures Roland Read -- St. Helen's illness -- St. Helen's identity revealed -- The assassination -- The man killed at the Garrett home -- The separation -- The pursuit of Booth -- The East Potomac Bridge -- The hand of Secretary Stanton -- Gen. Dana identifies Booth -- A Baltimorean still -- Informing the War Department that Booth lives -- Gen. Albert Pike identifies Booth -- Press comments on the suicide of David E. George -- These are pictures of John Wilkes Booth -- Reading the palm of John Wilkes Booth -- Joseph Jefferson identifies John Wilkes Booth -- Junius Brutus Booth identifies his uncle, John Wilkes Booth Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography The author claims that John Wilkes Booth was not killed at the Garrett house in Virginia in 1865, but that he was living under name of John St. Helen at Glenrose Mills, Tex., 1872-1877, and committed suicide at Enid, Okla., in 1903 as David E. George Copy 1: Book, flexible covers; frontispiece Copy 2: Book, flexible covers; frontispiece, missing prelim. p., loose t.p Copy 1: Handwritten inscription on flyleaf: To my friend John E. Burton with best wishes of the author, Finis L. Bates, Memphis, Tenn., March 18th, 1914 Copy 2: Handwritten inscription on frontispiece verso: To Mr. John E. Burton with compliments of the author, Memphis, Tenn., July 16, 1912 18
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