Lincoln Reward Money Fraud?

[maharba]

This is not really the right (mummy) Thread to mention it, but I have read that Finis Bates may not even have used David George/Booth mummy. Some say that he came up with another body and used that instead of 'the original Booth', others say that he was running several mummies at the same time, in various parts of the country. So even if 'the mummy' was today located, it might not even be David George who died 1903 Enid OK, but a switch that lawyer Bates had made, many years back. And so, the DNA wouldn't match with Booth or George, etc. And I wonder how well Phineas Bates ever knew the man John St.Helen to begin with. I tend to believe that in writing his book, Bates invented facets of 'what St.Helen had told him about escaping and traveling as John Wilkes Booth'. Later, when a man calling himself JWBooth died in Enid OK, Bates eventually shows up and recognizes him as the same man (so Bates says) from earlier Granbury, TX. As with the Lincoln fiction and Corbett glosses, Bates was smoothing and adding a narrative, I tend to believe. If John St. Helen was John Wilkes Booth, the truth of the matter was greatly muddled with Finis Bates coming into the picture.