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AT WILKES-BARRE
Died. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90, one of the surgeons who attended Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth (TIME, April 4); of old age; in Manhattan.
"Birthdays. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90 (first surgeon to reach Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth); . . ."
Birthdays. Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, 90 (first surgeon to reach Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth); Andrew William Mellon, 77; Richard Beatty Mellon, 74; King Fuad of Egypt, 64; Florenz Ziegfeld, 63; the Knights of Columbus, 50.
Neither tried nor sentenced to Death was John Wilkes Booth. After killing President Abraham Lincoln he escaped to Virginia, was tracked down and shot in a barn which his pursuers had ignited-though some say he escaped entirely, roamed the land for years incognito.