Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — Relie of Wilkes Booth. [ARTICLE]

Relie of Wilkes Booth.

Mist Mary McHenry, of Philadelphia, has sent to General Dunn, to be placed in bis Linooln collection, a curious relic of Wilkes Booth, with the following statement: In August, 1884, Mr. J. Wilkes Booth registered as a guest at the McHenry House, Meadville, Pa. He was there on the 13th ot that month. After his departure it was found that he had, with a diamond, Inscribed upon a pane of a window of his bedroom, these words - Abe Lincoln, Departed this ; - Life Aug. 18th, 1884, By the effects of ' ‘ Poison. The glass remained in the window undisturbed until the country was shocked by the murder of Mr. Lincoln on April 14lh, 1886. A few days alter that event Mr. R. M. N. Taylor, proprietor of the McHenry House, cut the pane from the window, framed it over a backing of velvet, framed with it the autograph of Mr. Booth, which Mr. Taylor cut from the hotel register, and sent the whole to me, just as it now is.