Identification of Booth's body

[AussieMick]

"Barnes turned away Col. Cobb, a longtime friend of Booth’s who came to ID the body, because he did not want Cobb to see the body."

Col. Cobb ? That would be the Colonel Clarence Cobb about whom you couldnt provide any details?

And the dental chart ... could you tell us its date ? Maybe even let us know where it can be seen? I've asked before but you've ignored me. I'm not just being awkward ... that 'chart' could have been last updated 3 or 4 years earlier. There may have been changes to Booth's teeth. He could have been to see another dentist after that chart was prepared.


All I can see from internet searches is that 'A dentist was not present but Sexton Weaver produced a dental chart. Charles Bishop, an actor who asked permission to view the body, looked in the mouth of the corpse, identified only one filled tooth and pointed it out to all in attendance.' (John Wilkes Booth: Beyond The Grave, WC Jameson, Page 156).

So we have Sexton Weaver (who is ? I dont know except that he isnt a dentist) turning up with a dental chart (we dont know where he got it from , nor what happened to it afterwards) who arranges for an actor to look into the body's mouth ( was Weaver too squeamish ?). The actor says , words to the effect, "Yep ... there's your plugged tooth. See?" We dont know of course if another person looking in would have said " Yep ... but woah ... see there's another one over there too."

(Oh, and apparently someone ... the actor, Mr Bishop ? ... counted the number of missing teeth ... and this was confirmed by ... ? )