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• uu lauiu B.vccAaiUiiist.4 It was evidently intended to kill Stanton, as a party was found secreted-in. the entrance to his house., Andy Johnson is in Washington with the dying President.LATER—8 o’clock, A. M.,President Lincoln died at 22 this morning. ...President Lincoln was shot through thehead last- night at Ford’s 'Theater and• • •••'.* - .died this morning. The assassin is supposed to be J. Wilkes Booth, the actor.About.the same time a desperado call*'ed at Secretary Seward’s, pretending tobe' a messenger from his physician. Be-i . . •ing ref used, admittance, he attacked Fred. Seward, son of the Secretary,, knocked him.down, and then passed, into the Sec* retry’s room, where after cutting down, taro male attendants.,he.cut Mr, Seward’s , throat. .The.wound at last accounts wasnot considered fatal. ’. .w wm m ' \ H •Letters found in Booth’s trunk ahow.that » the assassination was contemplated be-;fore the itii of March, but fell through from some cause.■ • * . , . , ti , - *; r . • » iThe wildest excitement prevails at WasMngtpn. The Yiee-P^esideat’a house '»nd residences of the different’ Secrets* .’riei.are closely guarded, . ,Cndttlon mt fefrettry mil FT«A* 8tw«. ftrd-wilo|p«i of lh«ir Ueoovtry*.-x A special dispatch ^states that Secretary Seward has. given a detailed descrip-_tion of the aesassin. It Is evident he was a differedt person; from the. President’s ..fiardewar.! ’, . •.Frederick Seward is in a most critical Condition and the surgeons are removing the broken fragments of - his skull. A private dispatch to Mr. Seward’s nephew m this’city,, from a member of the: family . says.;: “1. ? have Just ■ left ;Mr. ’Seward’s house. His wound* are ,not mortal. He has lost much blood, bat no arteries are ’■cut.-/., Frederick^ skull is fractured badly in twoplace* above tbp temple. He is iMshiiole^ Tll«r h§ *dirdie. -.•Secretary ' Award’s tfcwmt wogfd - 'hare' been cut, if W had not rolled out of bed. He has' been informed -of Mr; Liapolc’s death-”
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Jefferson Banner
Jefferson, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Apr 19, 1865
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