Terrific coverage of the trial of the assassins... Jeff Davis' flight...
NEW YORK TIMES, May 20, 1865 The front page is entirely taken up with the historic trial of those implicated in the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
First column heads include: "THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS" "Proceedings Before the Commission on Friday" "Further Testimony About the Escape from the Theatre" "Major Seward Identifies Payne as the Assassin" "Other Witnesses Make the Identification Certain" and more. The testimony carries over to take over half of the back page as well.
Page 5 has: "MOVEMENTS OF JEFF. DAVIS" "He is To Be Sent North by Way of Savannah" 'His Arrival at Macon..." and the back page has: "Davis' Flight " "Particulars of His Course After Lee's Surrender" "How He Gathered A Body Guard & Carried Off the Specie" "His Men Become Uneasy & Clamer for Pay" with more.
Eight pages, minor binding slits at the blank spine, very nice condition.