dr. charles leale: stop, stop! [grunts]. abraham lincoln: [gasping breath]. dr. charles leale: [grunts]. william h. flood: the house opposite is closed. henry s. stafford: here, here! bring him here. dr. charles leale: go, go, go. man: clear the way, please. out of the way, please. tom hanks: lincoln is taken to a boarding house directly across the street from the theater and, due to his 6'4" height, laid diagonally on the bed of absent boarder, william clark. shorty after 11:00 pm, secretary of war edwin stanton sets up a headquarters in the back parlor of the house and establishes relays between there and the war department telegraph operators. he alerts general grant and calls him back to washington, issues emergency directives to police and military authorities, orders the national detective police,