''Abe'' Lincoln's Yarns and Stories - University of Macau Library

Yarns and Stories, by Alexander K. McClure 432Twenty-five thousand dollars reward will be paid for the apprehension ofG. W. Atzerodt, sometimes called "Port Tobacco," one of Booth'saccomplices. Twenty-five thousand dollars reward will be paid for theapprehension of David C. Herold, another of Booth's accomplices.A liberal reward will be paid for any information that shall conduce to thearrest of either the above-named criminals or their accomplices.All persons harboring or secreting the said persons, or either of them, oraiding or assisting their concealment or escape, will be treated asaccomplices in the murder of the President and the attempted assassinationof the Secretary of State, and shall be subject to trial before a militarycommission, and the punishment of death.Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land by the arrest andpunishment of the murderers.All good citizens are exhorted to aid public justice on this occasion. Everyman 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.BOOTH FOUND IN A BARN.Booth, accompanied by David C. Herold, a fellow-conspirator, finallymade his way into Maryland, where eleven days after the assassination thetwo were discovered in a barn on Garrett's farm near Port Royal on theRappahannock. The barn was surrounded by a squad of cavalrymen, whocalled upon the assassins to surrender. Herold gave himself up and wasroundly cursed and abused by Booth, who declared that he would never betaken alive.The cavalrymen then set fire to the barn and as the flames leaped up thefigure of the assassin could be plainly seen, although the wall of fireprevented him from seeing the soldiers. Colonel Conger saw him standing