LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. Printed reward poster: War Department, Washington, April 20, 1865, $100,000 Reward The Murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large ... Liberal rewards will be paid for any information ... Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land by the arrest and punishment of the murderers ... Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Folio broadside, 580 x 313mm. (22 7/8 x 12 5/16 in.), tiny hole to blank paper at central fold intersection, otherwise in very fine condition. THE SEARCH FOR BOOTH AND HIS CONSPIRATORS JUST FIVE DAYS AFTER LINCOLN'S DEATH A graphic relic of the Lincoln assassination, probably printed locally in large quantities, although few are extant today. The Secretary of War confirms that a reward of $50,000 will be paid for the apprehension of John Wilkes Booth, described at the bottom as "Five feet 7 or 8 inches high, slender build, high forehead, black hair, black eyes, and wears a heavy black mustache." Rewards of $25,000 apiece will be paid for the capture of John H. Surratt and David C. Harold (i.e. David Edgar Herold). A later issue, from a different setting of type, incorporates small images of the three men at the top (see D.M. Kunhardt and P.B. Kunhardt, Jr., Twenty Days , 1965, p. 106). At the time this poster was circulated, only Booth, Herold and Surratt had been identified as part of the assassination conspiracy. Herold escaped with Booth into Maryland, and then to Virginia, where six days after this poster was issued, they were surrounded by Union soldiers in a tobacco barn. Herold surrendered, but Booth resisted and was fatally shot. Herold was subsequently sentenced to death and hanged along with Lewis Payne, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt on 6 June 1865. John H. Surratt escaped to Europe through Canada, and would not return to the United States until he was brought back to trial in 1867.
LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. Printed reward poster: War Department, Washington, April 20, 1865, $100,000 Reward The Murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large ... Liberal rewards will be paid for any information ... Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land by the arrest and punishment of the murderers ... Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Folio broadside, 580 x 313mm. (22 7/8 x 12 5/16 in.), tiny hole to blank paper at central fold intersection, otherwise in very fine condition. THE SEARCH FOR BOOTH AND HIS CONSPIRATORS JUST FIVE DAYS AFTER LINCOLN'S DEATH A graphic relic of the Lincoln assassination, probably printed locally in large quantities, although few are extant today. The Secretary of War confirms that a reward of $50,000 will be paid for the apprehension of John Wilkes Booth, described at the bottom as "Five feet 7 or 8 inches high, slender build, high forehead, black hair, black eyes, and wears a heavy black mustache." Rewards of $25,000 apiece will be paid for the capture of John H. Surratt and David C. Harold (i.e. David Edgar Herold). A later issue, from a different setting of type, incorporates small images of the three men at the top (see D.M. Kunhardt and P.B. Kunhardt, Jr., Twenty Days , 1965, p. 106). At the time this poster was circulated, only Booth, Herold and Surratt had been identified as part of the assassination conspiracy. Herold escaped with Booth into Maryland, and then to Virginia, where six days after this poster was issued, they were surrounded by Union soldiers in a tobacco barn. Herold surrendered, but Booth resisted and was fatally shot. Herold was subsequently sentenced to death and hanged along with Lewis Payne, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt on 6 June 1865. John H. Surratt escaped to Europe through Canada, and would not return to the United States until he was brought back to trial in 1867.
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