The Very Strange Life of Boston Corbett, as told by Bill Jensen, April 12, 2015 in the Washingtonian

Boston Corbett achieved notoriety by shooting John Wilkes Booth after Booth killed President Lincoln. Booth had been cornered by soldiers who had orders to take Booth alive, but Corbett defied orders and pulled the the trigger, killing him. Much later Corbett moved to Kansas and achieved notoriety again as a Doorman in the House of Representatives. By 1878 Corbett decided to "go west" to Cloud County, Kansas where he homesteaded 80 acres, living in a "one-room hovel with a wooden floor and rocked walls." In 1886 he was hired as an assistant doorkeeper at the Kansas Legislature in Topeka, at the urging of a veterans organization. One day after some sort of dispute, he brandished his gun in the Statehouse and Kansas officials shut him away in a mental hospital in Topeka. Corbett escaped on May 26, 1988. There were many rumors of what happened to Corbett, but none were substantiated. The full article by Bill Jensen is found online here.

washingtonian.com/2015/04/12/the-man-who-killed-john-wilkes-booth/

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