A Spy named NORTON.

[SSlater]

Gene C. I do not have a picture of Norton. I do have pictures of Conrad and of Fannie Dade. No, I am not writing a book on them. I should. My theory is that Fannie blew the whistle on Booth. Fannie was "arrested" and taken to D.C. The next day Baker sent his mob to King George, and got Booth. He said it was through his own brilliance he found Booth.

Conrad wrote two Books. (If you read one, you don't need the other - they are the same.) One is "Confederate Spy" and the other is "Rebel Scout". I have a copy of "Rebel Scout" IN HIS HANDWRITING. (I think that Laurie and Co. have a copy -Right Laurie?)

I also have "The U. S. Secret Service in the late war" and "Death to Traitors" By Baker. (He is the poorest writer of them all. But Gotta have him. He writes everything in the first person - which ain't true. (Does that make it fiction?)

I can't be sure which book I read that talked about Norton (It's been a long while ago) I made notes about what I read, but not the name of the book. UGH!) In that same book, I read that Baker has a sister named LODAWHISKEY. True story.

I'm still hunting Baker's real middle name. It can't be Curry, that's his wife's name, Jennie Curry, from Philadelphia. m 1852. He must have changed his name in her honor, or it's the wildest coincidence.

Amen