JWB Breach of Promise incident

[Steve]

(11-05-2017 04:07 PM)jparkuntz Wrote:  I will check to see if the requisition sent or received by the involved governors might still exist.

This has the scent of truth; these were literally the first sentences written about Booth by this Sunday Philadelphia newspaper. I think it was too early for the paper to print a character-impugning rumor--this was the first thing to came to the editor's mind when recalling JWB in Philly. The mention of specific names: the Governors and of Robert M. Lee Jr., also seems like too much detail for a rumor.

Jerry Kuntz
Warwick NY

I don't think the Mercury is in the newspaper databases that I searched (or if it is the search results didn't bring up your article). If you have access to their issues, you can try searching 1858 to early 1859 to see if they reported on it at the time as well.