Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — How Booth Died. [ARTICLE]

How Booth Died.

As Herold left, Booth made a movement as though to raise his carbine, and Boston Corbett fired. The ball struck Booth just behind the ear, in about the same place where he struck the President. The bullet lodged in the vertebrae of his neck, and this part of his anatomy was afterward cut out, and the bone with the ball in it was kept in the medical museum at Washington. Just before Corbett fired, the straw at the back of the barn was fired by a detective, and as the blaze leaped upward I rushed in and seized Booth, throwing my arms aro ;nd his waist under his uplifted arms, and dragging him out of the burning barn. We carried him to the porch of the Garrett farm-house, and he died within a few hours, — Lippincott’s Magazine. When a sermon is too long, the end makes one forget the middle, and the middle the beginning. — St. Francis de Sales.