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. I know that
was the only picture for though
Safford and Clark left the house
and city not very long after, I re
mained for more than a year, and
110 one else came to see the
room or
t P-uticulurs We Kv
Uerhuus n certificate as to the cor
redness of hispictuuv -Now Vorl
Times.
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