A John Wilkes Booth boot question

[J. Beckert]

I brought this up recently, Bill and there was a lot of discussion on it in the thread discussing if Booth had stopped at the boardinghouse after Ford's. American Brutus states that Booth had the boots made in NYC and requested pockets be sewn in them. A thought was that it may be for his supposed quinine running operation. Jim Garrett, who works at Ford's, did some poking around and found that earlier examinations revealed no pockets in the boots. There was enough room, however, to stick a 2 pound revolver in there, but that's another story.