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CAME FROM THE SALOON

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 23, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 17.

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CAME FROM THE SALOON.

The last public act of J. Wilkes Booth before shooting down President Lincoln was, five minutes before the tragedy, to throw down a dollar upon the counter of a saloon and call for a brandy, which he got and drank.
The last public act of Guiteau, before shooting President Garfield, was to come from a saloon, where he had been drinking brandy, to the place where he committed the crime.
Czolgosz made his home, while in Buffalo, at a saloon hotel, and went from it to Music Hall, where he assassinated President McKinley.—Southern Star, Atlanta, Ga.