Clara Harris Assassination

Clara Harris “In every hotel we’re in, as soon as people get wind of our presence, we feel ourselves become objects of morbid scrutiny..Whenever we were in the dining room, we began to feel like zoo animals. Henry… imagines that the whispering is more pointed and malicious than it can possibly be.” Quote from Clara Harris’ journal entry of Henry Rathbone’s guilt of the assassination. What part did Clara Harris play in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Clara Harris was born on September 9, 1834 in Albany, New York. She was one of the four children of Senator Ira Harris, his first wife was Louisa Tubbs Harris. Clara’s mother died in 1845. At ages 13 and 11, Clara and Henry were raised in the same household. Clara’s father married, widow

The assassination caused him suffering from “physical ailments, constant fears, and terrible delusions” that got worse over the years. Henry Rathbone also felt guilty for surviving the assassination and believed (as people gossiped) that he should have done more to prevent it from happening. Henry felt that he could not escape the attention from being there that day. Clara was eager to leave him, but it was socially unacceptable at the time for a divorce or separate. Then, Clara and her family ended up in Europe, for somewhat for Henry Rathbone’s work and partially so he could seek for treatment from spas and doctors. In 1883, in Germany in the early dark hours of December 23 (Christmas Eve), Henry walked into Clara’s bedroom, after a quick exchange about their children, Henry shot Clara. After, shooting Clara he stabbed himself with a knife. Henry stabbed himself six times before the servants could get to the room, this was a bad copy of the Lincoln assassination. In result, of the bad copy of the Lincoln assassination, the gunshot victim (Clara) died and Henry survived from the stab wounds. AGAIN. So, then Clara was buried in a German cemetery and Henry was announced crazy, insane. Henry Rathbone was placed in a German asylum. Henry Rathbone was in a German asylum for being criminally insane and stayed there for his life, suffering from delusions. Clara’s and Henry’s children went to stay with their uncle in the United States. Then, Henry died in 1911 and he was buried with his wife,