The Bloody Pillow Case

[Warren]

(09-16-2014 06:30 PM)Lincoln Wonk Wrote:  Warren, These are fascinating clippings. Is there anything that indicates the newspaper and the date? From what I know of the Petersens, it all makes sense and it is the only admission I've seen from a family member that the Petersens were sesech. I'm pretty certain they were, because a young next-door neighbor who visited Petersen's that night later told reporters that she and one of the Petersen children felt sorry for John Wilkes Booth, whom they both liked. As you probably know, there were many sesech families on Tenth Street and many who felt that Mary Surratt should not have been hanged. Kathy

Kathy, all I know at this point is that the first page of this part of the "scrapbook" started with an editorial on January 1, 1882. At the end of the Peterson article, which was cut of in my photographs, she talks of how close they may have all come to being hanged because they knew Booth. At the very end, the article is attributed to the Chicago Herald, and I think it comes from a Texas paper ( probably Houston) in the 1880's to 1890's. In another place, the scrapper cut out "1898" and stuck it on a different article, so that gives us a date range.

This scrapbook has a wealth of articles on Lincoln that I have not seen before, but probably everyone else on this forum has. I'll try and photograph them and place them in appropriate threads for discussion.

I'll also do a quick index of the articles in this section. Warren