Identification of Booth's body

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(11-08-2018 05:09 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  If this is a stupid question, sorry but I was once an auditor and it was an occupational hazard ... and old habits, etc.


This Thread has sometimes mentioned a Col. Clarence Cobb ( being prevented from viewing the dead body). I can see that several books refer to a Clarence F. Cobb ... but who was Col Clarence Cobb ? Could someone please enlighten me as to who this gentleman was , I assume a colonel, preferably with a few hyperlinks ?


I have located a gravestone for a Corporal Clarence Cobb. And he apparently knew Booth as a schoolboy but only for 3 years (Booth would have been 11 to 14 years of age) and this was 13 years before the body was on the Montauk. So I'm fairly sure that this couldn't be the 'Col Clarence Cobb' referred to in the thread.

https://boothiebarn.com/tag/edman-spangler/

I have wondered the same thing and have been meaning to go to The Evidence book -- if I have the energy to lift it. There aren't enough hours in the day at work now, and that is where my reference copy is.