. Curios and relics. Clothing . hAr hand> Mr- Henkels, who isregarded as an authority on historicalrelics, declared that the coat now In thepossession of the Chicago Society was n?L\ L°Ze wo™ by Mr- Lincoln on thenignt lie was shot. There are authentic letters and tele-flnnPH Vlat E° with the clothes we auc-flSfur frKm,M-rsi, LIn«>In to the Donnfamily which indisputably point to the ^iVr-lf^? ?f the garments, he said. With all due respect to the ChicagoHistorical Society, the coat it has was°l the, ,coat worn by Mr. Lincoln onthe night he was shot. ^ The suit, silk stock and overcoat sol
. Curios and relics. Clothing . hAr hand> Mr- Henkels, who isregarded as an authority on historicalrelics, declared that the coat now In thepossession of the Chicago Society was n?L\ L°Ze wo™ by Mr- Lincoln on thenignt lie was shot. There are authentic letters and tele-flnnPH Vlat E° with the clothes we auc-flSfur frKm,M-rsi, LIn«>In to the Donnfamily which indisputably point to the ^iVr-lf^? ?f the garments, he said. With all due respect to the ChicagoHistorical Society, the coat it has was°l the, ,coat worn by Mr. Lincoln onthe night he was shot. ^ The suit, silk stock and overcoat soldyesterday were presented to AlphonsoDonn. who was an usher and door ten-der at the White House during Lin-coln s administration. The clothes haveremained in the possession of the Donnfamily, of Washington, evei since*TYS ^ays after President Lincolnsdeath, Donn asked Mrs. Lincoln for thesuit last worn by the President. Twoweeks later he received the clothes. Both Claim Only Real,Genuine Article. when he was shot from Thomas , a doorkeeper at the WhiteHouse during the civil war. CharlesForbes, another veteran attache of theexecutive mansion, also vouched forthe authenticity of the garment, for asilk stock, and for the famous shawlLincoln wore about his shoulders. There is no doubt in my mind butthat this Chicago coat is the originalcoat—the coat worn by Lincoln on thenight of his assassination, Mr. Logansaid. It is strange that this othercoat should have lain around for sixtyyears without anybody knowing aboutit. I have spent years in collectingLincoln trophies and in studying Lin-colns life, and I never heard of it. The claims for the Philadelphiarelics, which were purchased by a Mr. Douglas, probably will be in-vestigated by officers of the ChicagoHistorical society. (Picture on back page.) Has Chicago the coat worn by Abra-ham Lincoln when he was shot? Or is it in Philadelphia? Chicago was sure this historic relicreposed in it
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