Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

[RJNorton]

I noticed that GATH wrote: "The assassin was too fleet and too desperate, that fury incarnate, meeting Mr. Withers, the leader of the orchestra, just behind the scenes, had stricken him aside with a blow that fortunately was not a wound."

If memory serves me I think GATH got this right. As I recall Withers, over the years, made extravagant but false claims about the seriousness of the wound.