Throwing more Mudd in the game

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Ewing also skipped the second trip where Mudd accompanied him to Bryantown Tavern and introduced Booth to Thomas Harbin. Mr. Trotter, the blacksmith & farrier in Bryantown, attested to seeing the doctor and Booth there while he was shoeing Booth's horse.

BTW: Mr. Hall once tried tracking down a rumor that, on that trip, Booth rode the one-eyed horse back to the livery stable at T.B. and took the stagecoach the rest of the way into the city. I don't know what the outcome of his research on that was. The livery stable was right across the New Cut Road from the T.B. "Hotel" run by John Chandler Thompson, whom I have always suspected as being the underground operative in the village. It was with Thompson that Herold spent the night of March 17, 1865, after the aborted kidnapping.