Throwing more Mudd in the game

[Gene C]

I'm taking a lot of this NY crowd talk with a grain of salt. Booth liked to exaggerate, and he was having problems keeping his own little band of conspirators involved. So he exaggerates the number of people involved to keep his guys from being discouraged and to make them think they are part of a larger effort.

In my opinion, if you are going to seriously look at the financial NY crowd, you need to start with the backers of Salmon Chase. As Sec. of Treasury, he has a lot of connections and always felt he could be a better president than Lincoln. He had the political desire. (But I don't think he would have been involved in assassination plans)