Thomas F. Harney

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(08-07-2015 09:45 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(08-07-2015 09:14 AM)Wild Bill Wrote:  Roger,

That is what I think Stelnick believed, i.e., the bombing of the White House was independently thought up by Gen Raines and the Torpedo Bureau, they used Booth and his gang to infiltrate the White House basement, and when their powderman Harney failed to show, Booth carried out an attempted assassination of the Union cabinet individually and muffed it.

I believe that he traces all of this to the New York faction, a group of New York City old Dutch (i.e., here in the US since the late 1600s and operating out of a Water Street warehouse) investors who operated independently of the Confederates in Richmond for their own economic purposes. When Booth's game failed to carry out their plot, only killing Lincon, the NYC Dutch eliminated all the loose ends using JJ Reford as their hit man

Thanks, Bill. I sure agree that the Harney mission was separate from Stelnick's main thesis. I wonder if we can be certain that there was an operation at 178 1/2 Water Street. In Lincoln Murder Conspiracies Dr. Hanchett indicates there is no reference to a company at that address in NYC tax records.

Back in the 1970s, James O. Hall, Civil War historian and author William C. Davis, and then-editor of CWTI, Charles Cooney, did extensive research related to 178 1/2 Water Street and came up with the conclusions that Bill Hanchett then passed on in his Conspiracies book. Since that time, other great researchers have questioned that address' legitimacy also.

If you want to delve into the Dixie Reckoning theme also, start with the name Demill in the early histories of New York. You will eventually wind up with Cecil B DeMille -- just as an aside...