Breaking a leg

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(02-11-2013 07:51 AM)Rsmyth Wrote:  ... Is it possible that they were told Booth broke his leg in the jump to the stage and they were also informed that he suffered a fall from his horse. They decided his injury was due to the jump.

Yes, I agree that these telegrams indicate that both theories were being considered prior to Booth's diary coming into evidence.

But how did the investigators in Bryantown come up with the stage jump theory prior to reading it in the diary? Booth and Herold were seemingly consistent in their story that the injury happened in a horse fall on the night of the assassination (a reasonable cover story) until Booth's diary claimed otherwise.

If this theory was based on speculation by the investigators, it seems to me that Booth would have had to learn of this theory and decide to falsly validate it in his diary if it were not in fact true.