LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN REPORTED ALIVE.
A despatch comes from Newark, Ohio, on April 15th, to the following effect : — " Christopher Columbus Bitter, who arrived from Germany in the winter of 1864. and through J. Wilkes Booth's influence secured a position in Ford's Theatre, Washington, tells the story of Lincoln's assassination, claiming that Boston Corbett shot Edward Fuchs, an actor resembling Booth, and not President Lincoln's assassin. Ritter is well educated, and his character is above reproach. He declared that he assisted Booth to escape, and that they sailed for Brazil on March 2nd, 1865. He soon left Brazil, but he met Booth by appointment in Hamburg seven years ago, and on that occasion Booth gave him pictures of his children by a South American wife. These pictures have a strong resemblance to Booth, and are now in Ritter's possession. Ritter says he heard from Booth last winter, and that he was then on the South American stage.
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Evening Post, Issue 128, 1 June 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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155LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN REPORTED ALIVE. Evening Post, Issue 128, 1 June 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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