Doyle, although some newspaper accounts can be quite beneficial, we all know that many of them often include unreliable evidence. If we tended to believe every account placed in newspapers, then we would have to believe the July, 1865, account as included in the Clarksville, Texas STANDARD, titled, rather bemusingly, "GENERAL GRANT KILLS PRESIDENT JOHNSON," and which article then goes on to give a rather convincing report of the death of the President, at the hands of General Ulysses Grant, who is indicated that he was compelled to kill the President.
I do not place too much reliance on newspaper reports, unless I can research these further, through other, official documentation.