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knew Booth personally, saw him die, and knows that, four years after Booth's body was buried in a penitentiary cell at Washington arsenal, it was delivered to his relatives and now lies in the family vault near Baltimore.  Captain Doherty has given a reporter of the New Orleans Picayune a graphic description of Booths capture, which he accomplished with a force of twenty-five cavalrymen and two citizen detectives.  The captain's command was stationed at Germantown, Va., at the time, and he was informed that Booth and his associates were in the neighborhood of Fredericksburg, where no troops had been stationed for some time.  But Captain Doherty learned after he started that a regiment of Union cavalry had already gone to Fredericksburg, and at once made for the south side of the Rappahannock.  The captain and an orderly proceeded ahead of the command to Port Conway ferry, where they showed Mrs. Rollins, the ferryman's wife, the photographs of Booth, Harrold and Surrat, representing them as rebel friends who were still unaware of Lee's surrender.  Mrs. Rollins said that Booth and Harrold had hired her husband to take them to Orange court-house the evening before, Lieutenants Burbridge, Ruggles and Jett, of Mosby's command, going with them.  The woman said that one of the party (Booth) was wounded in the leg, and as Jett was courting the daughter of Hotel-keeper Goldman, at Bowling Green, eighteen miles distant, all hands had probably gone there.  Captain Doherty at once sent the orderly after his command, and after the last load of horses had been ferried across, he arrested Ferryman Rollins and got him to guide them to Bowling Green, surrounding him with a guard with drawn pistols, that his neighbors might think that he was forced to do it.

The party rode directly to Bowling Green, passing the house of one Garret on the way, where Booth and Harold were stopping and took to the woods unnoticed.  But Captain Doherty and his men found Lieutenant Jett at Goldman's hotel, and, making him believe that he knew all about his movements for the last three days, and threatening to hang him if he lied, the captain got him to own up that Booth had stopped at Garrett's.  Jett was forced to guide the command back, and when they got within a quarter mile of the house the captain went on ahead, to survey the premises, placed six men as a patrol in the rear of the house and stables and surrounded the house with the rest.  Garrett said that Booth and Harold went to the woods the afternoon before, but one of the sons was finally forced to confess that they had returned and were hidden in the barn.  Sergeant Boston Corbett was at once ordered to dismount the force, detail a few to watch the house and surround the barn with the rest.  The barn was locked but one