Booth's Horse Fell....

[John Fazio]

Everyone:

The evidence is strong that there were a lot of women in Booth's life. That he was smitten with Lucy Hale, more so than the others, somehow just doesn't ring true. The photos I have seen or her are not impressive, though it is always possible that something other than physical beauty attracted him to her. As my father would say when he was unimpressed with a woman's looks: "She's no Marilyn MON-roe". For this reason, I would say that the greater likelihood is that he was going to Spain, assuming he was going to Spain, to find sanctuary, not to follow Lucy. The possibility always exists, of course, that Spain was talked about as a possible place of refuge, but then abandoned in favor of a different destination. That would account for the references to it that appear here and there in the record.

John