** NEW DISCOVERY REGARDING BOOTH AUTOPSY PHOTO

[RJNorton]

In January 1887 Dr. May wrote:

"And it being afterwards, at my request, placed in a sitting position, standing, and looking down upon it, I was finally enabled to imperfectly recognize the features of Booth. But never in a human being had a greater change taken place, from the man whom I had seen in the vigor of life and health, than in that of the haggard corpse which was before me, with its yellow and discolored skin; its unkempt and matted hair; and its whole facial expression sunken and sharpened by the exposure and starvation it had undergone!"

Strangely, he also wrote:

"The right lower limb was greatly contused, and perfectly black from a fracture of one of the long bones of the leg."