Booth's comments on Spangler ?

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(10-20-2012 09:38 AM)John E. Wrote:  Eureka ! I knew I wasn't crazy. I went back and checked the Evidence book and found the source of Booth's comments.

They are located in Herold's statement toward the end. Page 681. He says he recalled Booth being sorry for the man who held his horse at the Theater. -- I wonder if this was in reference to Spangler or Peanut John ? Its not clear. He did kick the guy after all.

Do you think there is something else? Is the context of the quote in American Brutus that Booth was sorry Spangler was a suspect in the conspiracy or that he was sorry that he kicked the man he thought was Spangler when mounting his horse?

Although being detained in prision, was Spangler even considered as a conspirator by the time of Booth's death? And would Booth have learned this through the newspapers?

Thanks,

Bill C