Excerpt from The True Story of Boston Corbett: A Lincoln Assassination Mystery; Fifty Years After The barn was quickly surrounded, and another young Garrett who was found in hiding near by was made to hand over the key. The lieutenant unlocked the door, and called to the occupants to come out at once and surrender. There was no answer. Doherty walked around the building, and one of the soldiers in his cordon told him that the whispering of two persons inside was distinctly audible. Doherty therefore raised his voice to a little higher pitch and called: If you don't come out, I'll fire the building and burn you out! As there was still no response, he ordered one of his suite to pile up some dry rubbish against the back of the barn and set fire to it. A first instalment of shavings and hay was laid in place, and the man was going off for more, when a voice which was very clearly Booth's sounded from within If you come back, I'll put a bullet through you! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.