Ruggles. Bainbridge and Jett at the River

[JMadonna]

(02-05-2017 05:21 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  In Art's endnote for the McCullough conversation it says, "Circumstantial and inconclusive evidence suggests that Booth may have taken a train to Montreal on April 2 and returned April 4.

That is because McCullough had a conversation with Booth where Booth said he planned to play in Montreal in the summer.

If so then Hogan's recollection that "John Wilkes Booth played a short engagement under the Buckland management, preliminary to the regular opening",, makes sense because Buckland owned the theatre Royal in Montreal and Booth played for him the winter before. Hogan also said that
"He was here just a week or ten days before the assassination of Lincoln".

That puts Col. Gordon's recollection in a new light. He said "I grasped the hand in friendly farewell that would soon he stained with the blood of an assassinated President. Nor do I think he had such thought at that time. IN A FEW DAYS, I was shocked at the report of Lincoln’s death by the hand of John Wilkes Booth.”

Tidwell admits that the timing is not clear as to what date Gordon was talking about and made the assumption that it was his trip in March since there was no evidence of another.

Put the three together and you've filled the "gap" in Booth's schedule. Atzerodt was telling the truth!