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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1899)
nneonn "Yes," said Tliotnns Proctor, the Brooklyn lawyer and naturalist, "anything that has any reference to Lincoln alwavs brinsrs to my mind the night he was shot and his death, of which I was one of the few eye-witnesses. There are some few things about that time which I should like to see straightened out, especially many misstatements that have been made. "I recall that night and every thing that happened with perfect distinctness. I was a young man living in Washington and con nected with the War Department, and when I found that a great tragedy had been brought right to mv door I knew that I was in the j center of a big historical event. If I should get out my notebook of that time I could tell you every thing that occurred in detail, and almost to the minute. "I was attending a meeting of an organization known as the 'Mosaic' that evening. It was literary in its nature, and was started by a number of Southern women, most of whom had members of their families in the Southern army, i Such men as belonged to the families who were in Washington attended, and there were a few outsiders who were inviied. I was one of the two or three Northern men. "The meeting of the Mosaic that Good Friday night in 1865 was at the house of Philip Y. Fendall in Tudiciary Square. At the close of the evening usually a Virginia reel was danced. There was always some discussion about this. The women with interests in the South were not in a mood for festivities in those days; they did not go to the theater, they did not give entertainments, they dressed chiefly in black and they did not like even the mild festivity of a Virginia reel. But the dancers usually car ried the day, as they had that evening. "I was talking with Miss Mary Fendall, the eldest daughter of the house. Her father was an invalid, and she devoted herself to him, and was the first time I had met her. It was reported among her friends that Thackerary had said to her. when he was in this country, that she was the wittiest woman he had met in America. So I was de lighted to have the opportunity of talking to her. We were stand ing near the door of the parlor leading into the front hall, when her brother, Reginald Fendall, entered the house, and said to me, as I was the first person he met, in alow excited tone: "The Presi dent is shot." "How much shot?" I asked. Remember the quick, awkward ex pression I used. "Killed, probably," he answered. "He did not intend to be over heard, but those near caught his words. There was much excite . I,.- . raem, ana me company oroKe up immediately, and I started for home, The streets were filled with people, some talking in loud tones and others whispering together. I "When I came to ray street at I the corner of the block below the bouse where I lived I found cordon of soldiers, and it was with 5ome difficulty that I obtained per mission to pass, When I came to I the house, which was just oppisite Ford's Theator, I found the stoop 1 in possession of an officer and guard of soldiers, who refused to j Allow me to pass. I was endeavor- ?g to make them understand that Hived there, when Henry S. , Snflbrd, who occupied a suite of) rooms with me in the house, came ,inm- ,i told me to be nuiet. as the President was inside. That of the physician: the hair which was the first I knew of it. That gathered together made a good . ,1 l!i.(Mnl. nnd one of the blood- aiso csinuusiicu uiv lusuutj , - was allowed to enter. ' "The President was on the bed flnnr! 111 11 ZUUUII UUiu wu ..ww- at the end ot the hall. I went down through the basement and through a small room in the back i of the house over the extension, ; and entered by the rear door of the i room in which the President was! lying. "Tt was a small bed. too short for so tall a man, and he was lying cross - wise, with his head at the front toward the door. He was lying on his right side, with the wound in his head in full view, and the surgeon was probing it with his finger when I entered. The room was almost, ifnot entirely, filled j how. The stains wore off, and with prominent men of the nation, j they may have been spent, or It Charles Sumner stood at the head 1 ,Hay have thrown them at somc of the bed with Robert Lincoln thing. I did use coins that way leaning on his shoulder weeping, frequently. We diden't think Mr. Welles, the Secretary of the ; much of fractional copper currency Navy, sat in a rocking chair, and 1 in those days. You qould almost when I came in he was asleep. 1 He was an old man. there had been j a great deal of excitement, and I j suppose he was worn out. There 1 were Safford, the Ulker brothers j and other inmates of the house standing in the doorway. "Mr. Stanton, who came into the room at intervals during the night, was busy in the back parlor j son, who owned the house, con -receiving dispatches, and dictating sisted in an intense admiration for answers to a stenographer. That I Andrew Jonnson. Peterson was a stenographer was the man since so a merchant tailor, and Johnson well known as Corporal Tanner, i used to drop into his place to see He then lived next door, and j the men work and tell about his Safford, who knew everyone, had, own experiences as a tailor, recommended him as a stenogra- Because he had been a tailor and pher. "Mrs. Lincoln, laboring under great stress of emotion, was brought in two or three times after I came in by two ladies who were with her. She remained only a short time, calling to her husband to speak to her. and then was taken 1 away upstairs again. Ine ladies spent the night in the suite of rooms belonging to Safford and myself. "There was a large front parlor or library with sleeping-rooms at the rear. I have heard a ereat many different versions of the story, but it was due to Safford that the President was brought into the house. He was sitting at the window of the parlor when he saw the excitement outside. They were taking the Presipent to the nearest place that seemed open, a lager beer saloon next door, when be called to them to bring him into the house. "With the exception of a short time when I went into a rear room and lay down for a half an hour, I was in the room with the President all night. I was there when the breathing which had been so labored that it could be heard through the house gradually modu lated, and in the morning when the physician, who had his finger on the pulse, said: "The pulse has ceased to beat." "An interesting but untrue story about the gold pieces that were placed on the President's eyes and afterward stolen has been written by a promi nent man. I know the story of those gold pieces." After the President had ceased to breathe the doctor put his hand in his pocket and brought out lour new, shiny two-cent pieces. Two of these he put 011 each of the eyes to close them. Everyone left the room then except two attendants, anu auer a rime tne coins were removed and placed carelessly 011 a table near the hair which had been cut from the Presidents Head around the wound, "After the body had been taken away I took the four corns, which were blood-stained from the fingers stained pillow slips from the bed. one of the coins I gave to Safiotd, another to William T. Clark, another occupant of the house, in whose room the President died, He chanced to be absent that night, The other two coins, the most stained, I kept myself, "That disnosesof the aucstion of the stolen gold pieces. The story i wn! noii-sensical on its face, for j everyone who knew the times j knows that the doctor would not he likely to carry gold pieces around j his pocket?; that they were j only to be seen as curiosities in 1 brokers windows. My two coins ) were eventually lost. I don't know pick it up on the streets. "It was a prominent official in I Washington who, writing of Lin-J coin's death, said: "He died itij the house of a sordid rebel, who j stole the gold pieces from his eyes.' . I must have been that sordid rebel who took the 2-cent pieces. "The politics of old Mr. Peter- Iliad risen to a high position Peterson considered him a great man. mat was about all the poli tics he had. "There have been various stories told to the effect that the room in which Mr. Lincoln died had been occupied by his slayer, John Wilkes Booth, for some time prior to the act. The room had been occupied by Mr. Clark for many months. I know him well, and he was a friend of Mr. Safford's. Before that the room had been occupied by an actor named Matthews, and it is possible that Booth might have visited him, though I think I should have heard of it if it had been so. "The pillow slip, which was very much stained, I have now or a great portion of it. The lock of hair I thought I had until at one time I visited Peora, 111., where I met a bright woman, Mrs. Brother son, the wife of an ex-mayor of the city and a poet, who wrote the poems for the city celebrations reora was tne seat ot the great Lincoln and Douglas debates, and Mrs. Botherson was an ardent ad mirer of Lincoln. I promised to send her the hair. But when I went te get it I found that all but a few hairs had been destroyed by insects, and nothing but the blue ribbon with which I had tied it was left. "There was only one reliable picture of the scene of Lincoln's death made. That was made by Mr. Berghqus of New York for an illustrated weekly of this city. He went to the room and made a very accurate sketch of it, even to Clark's pictures on the wall, and we gave him a careful description of everything that took place and the people present. 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