Find the best price forJohn Wilkes Booth: Escape and Wanderings Until Final Ending of the Trail by Suicide at Enid, Oklahoma, January 12, 1903 (Classic Reprint)

William Parker 1843-1924 Campbell

Paperback, Published in Jul 2016 by Forgotten Books

ISBN10: 1333017014 | ISBN13: 9781333017019

Page count: 160

Excerpt from John Wilkes Booth: Escape and Wanderings Until Final Ending of the Trail by Suicide at Enid, Oklahoma, January 12, 1903
Now 1mag1ne 1f xou Will a large wall card of the Equrtable Insurance Company on wl'llcl] IS a p1cture of the National Capltol and surroundings, Includmg the naw yard and approaches to the east Potomac bridge, and a strrp of Potomac country some miles south and southeast Then Imagrne a rather tall man slightly stooped from the care of years, dressed ln a Prince Albert, buttoned at the center, vude brrmmed rather low crowned black hat, and immaculate black t1e from vhrch ashes a small Jet Raven hair reachmg to the shoulders and with a wavy trend, black Imperial mustache, a rattan cane whlch he of seeming hablt keeps twrrlmg ln the rlght hand between thumb and fore finger as he paces medltatrvely to and fro Now he stops 111 front of the capltol p1cture and settllng back on hrs heels grves the card a punch wrth the end of hrs cane as though he would punch a hole through it Then as he approaches 1t, Were Vou ever there? He turns to hls questroner wrth fixed and plercmg eyes as he gives a cusp.
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