CONSPIRACY THEORY-FINAL-CONSTITUTION Feb. 3, 1915 MR. BELLS CLOSING REFERENCE TO BOOTH ARTICLE Washington, D.C., January 30, 1915 Apropos of my Booth-Lincoln letters, I send you, as a fitting close to same, a letter I have received from Mr. N.H. Nicholson, Special Examiner of the Pension Bureau, located at Enid, Oklahoma, in which he says that David E. George died of suicide at Enid; That his body was mummified, and until recently kept in an undertaking establishment of a Mr. Penniman; that David E. George bore all the physical and and mental characteristics of John Wilkes Booth; that it is believed there, among men best able to judge of such matters, that David E. George and John Wilkes Booth were one and the same person, and that he also confessed that he was in fact John Wilkes Booth. He also states that he always appeared to be well supplied with money, said to have come to him, from time to time, through the postoffice; and that the mummified body, frequently mentioned in my letters to the Constitution and Herald, had been taken away, and was reported to have been sent to San Francisco, California. The body has in fact been recently removed from Enid, by Finis L. Bates, but is was not sent to San Francisco, California, but to Mr. Bates, where he intends to put it on exhibition at the Panama Exhibition to be held there, and where all who attend the exhibition, and the desire to do so, can see the body of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, and hear recited the evidence, and see the absolute proof that John Wilkes Booth was not, in fact, killed by Boston Corbett, in Garretts barn, April 26, 1865, but that he escaped, lived for nearly 38 years, under the aliases of Jesse Smith, in Nebraska, as John St. Helen, in Glenrose Mills, and Fort Worth, Texas, and David E. George, in El Reno and Enid, Oklahoma, and who died from the effects of fifteen grains of strychnine, taken with suicidal intent, in the Grand Avenue Hotel, Enid, Oklahoma, on the morning of January 14th, 1903, at the hour of 6:30 a.m. at the age of 64 years. And so my story comes, finally, so far as these letters are concerned, to an end; and if my readers have enjoyed the reading of these marvelous and intensely interesting and instructive revelations, as much as I, in my imperfect and unsatisfactory way of relating them, have enjoyed typing them, I am more than satisfied for all the labor, and reading, and study I have given to their preparation; and which study of the subject I am still pursuing, and touching their truth and verity, confirmations strong as proofs of Holy Writ, are ever breaking on my startled and wondering mind. Mr. Nicholsons letter to me is as follows: H.C. BELL Enid, Oklahoma, January 20, 1915 Mr. H.C. Bell. Washington, D.C. My Dear Mr. Bell Your letter of January 13, received and I have made inquiry among some well informed people here as to David E. George, alleged to have been John Wilkes Booth. I yesterday talked with a man who knew George well. He states that George was a man of medium size, quick and nervous in movement, bright black eyes and hair black, inclined to be wavy but kept cut short. He further states that at times George, was morose, melancholy and taciturn and would have nothing to say to any one. Again when he was under the influence of drink he would entertain the crowd in the saloon or wherever he happened to be by quoting or reciting from Shakespeare, and would repeat whole plays in an actor like manner and a fine voice. He never heard George sat anything about his past, or where he had been or came from. He lived at El Reno, Kingfisher and Enid, back and forth, one place or the other, always had plenty of money, but never worked, and was not a gambler. Was reported to get money through the postoffice, but never spoke of it himself. A year or so before he died he wrote out and handed a paper to a lady here, and asked her to keep it for him. The paper after his death was found to be a circumstantial statement of the assassination of President Lincoln and a claim that the writer was Wilkes Booth. He is also reported to have told Mr. Penniman that he was Booth. I have never seen the mummy of George but my daughter has seen it several times. I think the mummy is now in San Francisco. Mr. Penniman, the undertaker who had it, has, I understand, taken it to Frisco and intended to put it on exhibition. The opinion here among people best qualified to give an opinion is that David E. George and John Wilkes Booth were one and the same man. George, I am told, had a slight deformity of one hand and was just noticeably lame in one leg. Mr. Penniman is administrator of his estate and the estate has never been closed. In this connection I might state that when I was a child, about 1870, I heard my mother and aunt talking, and mother said that Uncle Wm. P. Harris, who I believed served in the 100th Illinois Infantry, told her that he knew the man killed by Boston Corbett was not Booth, but a young Confederate soldier who had been paroled at Appomatox and was on his way home to Lee County, Virginia, and was killed to get the reward. My aunt remarked, That is what took him to France, mother said, yes. My uncle, whom we always called Uncle P., his name being Wm. Peyton Harris, went to France after the war, and is supposed to have been killed in the Franco-Prussian war. In the conversation between my mother and aunt, the name of the man whom uncle had claimed was killed was used, but I do not remember it, and it only impressed me at the time because one man had been killed for what another had done, and I was only a child. After I grew up I never talked with mother about it and do not know where Uncle P. got his information, but it is my impression that Uncle had been a prisoner of war. This, of course, has nothing to do with the case, and it is only a childs memory but is clear to me as far as I remember it. Now I have written enough. I am well and my family are well. Give my love to Frank Anderson and C.M. Gilpin. Sincerely your friend N.H. NICHOLSON ROBINSON DAILY NEWS-1927 JOHN WILKES BOOTH BODY On exhibition with the Morris & Castle shows is a body in a remarkable state of preservation which the owner, F.L. Bates, ex-attorney-general of Tennessee, claims is the body of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Bates has caused much discussion several years ago by writing a book called The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth. This is the body of the man whom Bates claimed was Booth. A full discussion of this mystery was given in the columns of the Constitution a few years ago, by Hon. H.C. Bell. PHOTOS: 1. David E. George in life. 2. Early mummy of George. 3. Old photo of mummy. 4. Comparison photos of John St. Helen and John Wilkes Booth.
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