Greer CO OK - Newspaper Article - Good Embalming Job

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Sun Monitor, Mangum, OT, Jan 21, 1904 
GOOD EMBALMING JOB.
CORPSE OF THE ALLEGED J. WILKES BOOTH STILL AWAITS BURIAL
AT ENID, PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN.


ENID, O.T. JAN 14, 1904, --Yesterdays WAVE says: This, the 13th of January, 
is J. Wilkes Booth's birthday, and he celebrated it in Enid by having his 
photograph taken, nearly a year after his death. It will be remembered that a
man calling himself David George, but who at various times confessed to be 
J. Wilkes Booth, committed suicide in the Grand Avenue Hotel, this city, 
January 31, 1903. No one by the name of George ever made the least inquiry
concerning the dead man, but an abundance of evidence to prove that the 
deceased was no other than J. Wilkes Booth was produced. 

The last evidence was from a New York girl claiming that the deceased was her 
father and that it was J. Wilkes Booth. In her last letter she said she was 
quite sure it was her father and she would see that he was buried respectfully. 
Nothing has been heard from her for months, hence the remains, being thoroughly 
embalmed, have been preserved above ground nearly a year awaiting the coming of 
either the George or Booth family to take charge of the remains or pay for the 
burial of the same.

Today, the birthday of Booth, the remains, in full dress and remarkably well 
preserved, were photographed in the Penniman undertaking rooms in the presence 
of a few citizens. The corpse, except for a slight discoloring, looked as
natural as life, which proves the mode of embalming adopted by Mr. Ryan, 
the undertaker, is a complete success.

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