Chris Ritter

[Pamela]

It was in the Sandusky Register April 19, 1895 and it referenced an article a few days prior, presumably April 14. I found it through Ancestry by searching for Ritter in Ohio, since he referenced that state. I think that Fuchs is another version of Fox. The only actor I was able to find was Brink, who is interesting since he was a good friend of Booth's but he wasn't a witness in either trial. He did give a couple of interviews in 1888 which Ritter could have read. It's too bad that the writers didn't mention how Chris Ritter came to their attention. It could be that he simply walked into the newspaper offices.

He led an interesting life, in that he did some pioneering, started his own business in several different states, helped found Paragould, Arkansas and produced children who were solid citizens in Paragould, especially Preston who owned a restaurant, a bottling company and what may have been an ice cream company (it was hard to read in the Census). Chris bought 80 acres in Arkansas and was appointed Postmaster for Beulah twice, in 1881 and 1882. He claimed to have done landscaping design for a park in Louisville, Kentucky.