Booth Killed. J. W. Booth Shot! Harrold Captured! They are Taken near Bowling Green, VA. The Murderer's Remains in Washington. Full Details of the Affair! The Funeral Train! The Ceremonies in Buffalo. About President Johnson. A Copperhead Mobbed! . .

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Morning Leader, 1865. Large Folio. 610 x 500 mm. ( 24 x 20 inches). 4 pp. Illustrated on page 2 with a Funeral Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln. Folded with minor breaks at folds, otherwise very good copy. Volume XIX, No. 102, of the Cleveland Morning Leader, issued on Friday morning April 28, 1865. This edition was the first in Northern Ohio to announce the capture and killing of John Wilkes Booth.  The newspaper carries an extensive report on the tracking, locating and killing of the assassin and the firing of the tobacco barn at the Garrett Farm in Port Royal, Virginia where he was shot and subsequently died on the morning of April 27th. This announcement on the 28th of April of Booth's death occurred the same day that Lincoln's Funeral Cortege arrived in Cleveland and Lincoln's casket was on view until midnight of April 29th, when it moved on to Columbus and then on to Springfield, Illinois. The newspaper contains reports on the condition of Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, who was also attacked by the assassins as well as descriptions of the activities of the Union Army, still very much engaged in Southern States.The paper also contains articles on the public reaction to the shooting and death of President Lincoln. One such report from Harrisburg, PA. describes the arrest of William Young who made obscene comments on the death of President Lincoln. He was "escorted through the principal streets of the city by a squad of the veteran reserve drum corps, who played the Rogue's March. The prisoner was elevated on a board upon which was painted words descriptive of his offense. The novel affair created considerable sensation."  On pages 2 of the paper is a full-page woodcut of a "Monument to Abraham Lincoln" followed on page 3 with excerpts from his Emancipation Proclamation, both enclosed within a black board. A moving tribute to the slain President by the citizens of Cleveland, Ohio. (323).