Posted on 04/21/2025 7:08:17 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, April 20, 1865.
Maj.-Gen. John A. Dix:
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD.
The murderer of our late beloved President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, is still at large. Fifty thousand dollars reward will be paid by this department for his apprehension, in addition to any reward offered by municipal authorities or State Executives. Twenty-five thousand dollars reward will be paid for the apprehension of G.A. ATZEROT, sometimes called "Port Tobacco," one of BOOTH's accomplices. Twenty-five thousand dollars reward will be paid for the apprehension of DAVID C. HAROLD, another of BOOTH's accomplices. Liberal reward will be paid for any information that shall conduce to the arrest of either of the above-named criminals of their accomplices. All persons harboring or secreting the said persons, or either of them, or aiding or assisting their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and the attempted assassination of the Secretary of State, and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land by the arrest and punishment of the murderers.
All good citizens are exhorted to aid public justice on this occasion. Every man should consider his own conscience charged with this solemn duty, and rest neither night nor day until it be accomplished. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Capture of Atzerot-One of the Assassins in Limbo.
BALTIMORE, Thursday, April 20.
A dispatch from Gen. E.B. TYLER dated Relay House this evening, says:
"Sergeant GAMMILL, of the First Delaware Cavalry, Capt. TOWNSEND's company, of my command, has just brought in GEORGE A. ATZEROT, one of the assassins. He has been identified by the detectives who have been pursuing him."
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The Assassins: Capture of One of the Murderers – 2
The Seward Family: Official Report from Surgeon-Gen. Barnes – 2-3
Rebel Prisoners on the Assassination: The Rebel Prisoners at Point Lookout on the Murder of the President – 3
Our Late President: The Last Hours of President Lincoln – 3-4
From Richmond: The Awful Rumors of Recent Events in Washington – 4-5
From San Francisco: The Public Grief – 5
The Murderer of Mr. Lincoln: Extraordinary Letter of John Wilkes Booth – 5-6
The Siege of Mobile: Particulars of Operations Preliminary to the Capture – 6-9
News from Washington – 9
Military Orders: The Reception of the Remains – 9
Editorial: Idle Apprehensions About a Guerrilla War – 9
Editorial: Rebel Schemes for a Foreign War – 9-10
General City News – 10
Brooklyn News – 10
New Jersey – 10
6% of us presidents have been murdered
all by democrats
If The New York Slimes was reporting an assassination today, the perpetrator would be a “ shooter “ instead of a “ murderer “.
“all by democrats”
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Guiteau was a loyal Republican seeking a patronage job and shot Garfield because he didn’t get it. It was another reason why the spoils system was ended. Czolgosz was an anarchist, and Oswald was a commie as far as their political leanings are known.
Oswald didn’t kill Kennedy he was just a patsy. The anarchists are even worse than Democrats. I never heard about the other guy killing a president about a job. But it sounds like something a Democrat would do rather than go out and earn a job.
” I never heard about the other guy killing a president about a job.”
Maybe you should read the history. From Wikipedia:
“A failed lawyer, Guiteau falsely believed that he had played a major role in Garfield’s election victory, for which he should have been rewarded with a consulship. Guiteau felt frustrated and offended by the Garfield administration’s rejections of his applications to serve in Vienna or Paris to such a degree that he decided to kill Garfield and shot him at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.”
So that is still Democrat Behavior
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