Oddities of the Lincoln assassination

[RJNorton]

Thanks, Joe. Apparently the information I used concerning what Clara Harris said about the penknife was actually contained within James Ferguson's statement. I had started to wonder if it had come from that statement Clara Harris gave about Booth coming to the State Box about an hour before the assassination to survey the situation in the box. As far as I know no one else reported this alleged first visit of Booth other than Clara Harris. We discussed this in another thread last year. This is from the May 5, 1865, edition of The Public Ledger: