. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : recollections and accounts of eyewitnesses. ght President Lincoln wasshot. This man happens to be theoldest Odd Fellow in this section,probably in South Jersey. He granted an interview to arepresentative of the Standard andJerseyman and a photograph wassecured of him, together with aflag made by a distant relative ofBetsy Ross. This flag was madefor use at the Centennial in 1876and contains 36 stars, one for eachstate in the Union at that time. He says the scene in the theatrethe night the martyred presidentwas shot is one of the eventspictured in my me
. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : recollections and accounts of eyewitnesses. ght President Lincoln wasshot. This man happens to be theoldest Odd Fellow in this section,probably in South Jersey. He granted an interview to arepresentative of the Standard andJerseyman and a photograph wassecured of him, together with aflag made by a distant relative ofBetsy Ross. This flag was madefor use at the Centennial in 1876and contains 36 stars, one for eachstate in the Union at that time. He says the scene in the theatrethe night the martyred presidentwas shot is one of the eventspictured in my memory so vividlythat I shall never forget it. With only a few days schooling,this man now over 90 years old isunable to do much reading, buthe has a retentive memory, and awonderful vitality, the envy ofpersons much younger. On pagepage eleven he gives a few mem-ory pictures that make an in-teresting story on this the 122ndanniversary of Lincolns i 9 :;? ^ i I ) SAW LINCOLN SHOT Doubts Flag Tripped Assassin— Says Booth Slid Down Theatre Pillar THEN RAN AWAY LIMPING. The shooting of Lincoln . . theescape of the assassin Booth . . thehysteria of the crowd in FordsTheatre. . Those events were recounted to-day by John Linsey at his home in- SS^ Bridgeton, N. , a formersoldier and ironk puddler, saw the55 shooting. He is92. Between puffson an old briarpipe, Linsey toldthe story. On the nightof April 14, 1865,I went to see aplay in FordsJohn Linsey Theatre. It wasOur American Cousin. I recall oc-cupying the second seat from theaisle, seven rows from the pillar sup-porting the Presidential box. The war had ended and every-body was celebrating. The Bethle-hem steel mill where I was a pud-dler had closed for a holiday, andI, accompanied by two fellow-work-men, went to Washington for a bigblow-out—took $75 and came backwith 75 cents. I was in the theatre when Presi-dent Lincoln and his family, to-gether with military aides came in,about half past eight and enteredt
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