Identification of Booth's body

[AussieMick]

"So obviously the body that Pegram saw had hair that was "nearly a foot" longer than he had ever seen Booth's hair to be."
Some comments on this ...

I'll take your word (and that is with great effort, considering past experience in reading your posts) that Pegram had seen Booth many times ... and even though you dont say how recently.

As far as I'm aware, Pegram was the only person that made a reference to the length of the hair. He was one of a group that viewed the corpse 4 years after death. But he was the only one (to my knowledge) who thought it 'nearly a foot long'.

"nearly a foot long" ? So that's between seven and eleven inches long? Eleven would be quite long, I admit. But seven or eight?

I can recall my father saying (this was in the 1960's) my brother's hair was a disgrace because, he said, it was more than a foot long. In fact it was barely to his shoulders.

In the army, on parade, there's many a private who heard the words screamed in his ear by an inspecting Sergeant standing behind him ... "Am I hurting you, you HORRIBLE little man? I should be, because I'm standing on your hair !!! Get it cut !!!"