""Giving in full detail the plans, plot, and intrigue of the conspirators, and the treachery of Andrew Johnson, then Vice-President of the United States"--T.p

Imprint from label on t.p

Lincoln-Booth -- John St. Helen -- John St. Helen lectures Roland Read -- St. Helen's illness -- St. Helen's identity revealed -- The assassination -- The man killed at the Garrett home -- The separation -- The pursuit of Booth -- The East Potomac Bridge -- The hand of Secretary Stanton -- Gen. Dana identifies Booth -- A Baltimorean still -- Informing the War Department that Booth lives -- Gen. Albert Pike identifies Booth -- Press comments on the suicide of David E. George -- These are pictures of John Wilkes Booth -- Reading the palm of John Wilkes Booth -- Joseph Jefferson identifies John Wilkes Booth -- Junius Brutus Booth identifies his uncle, John Wilkes Booth

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography

The author claims that John Wilkes Booth was not killed at the Garrett house in Virginia in 1865, but that he was living under name of John St. Helen at Glenrose Mills, Tex., 1872-1877, and committed suicide at Enid, Okla., in 1903 as David E. George

Book, flexible covers; frontispiece, covers and spine detached, loose pages

Handwritten inscription in ink on flyleaf: Abel M. White, March 24, 1922, gift of Robert H. Huches

Handwritten inscription in ink on p. [1] of cover: Abel M. White, March 24, 1922

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