New Development in Booth Case Coming Soon

[Steve Whitlock]

(07-19-2019 04:53 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Somewhere, I'm thinking that I have seen the height of 6'1" mentioned about the mummy. I'll drink some ginseng tea to see if that helps me remember!!

I also remember several inveterate Booth detectives from forty years ago trying to find any evidence that JWB had an injury to that thumb joint. I believe they found none for Johnny, but a mention of Junius the Elder having injured his in a stage rigging.

That gives us another "theory" to explore -- Junius did not die on board that ship; he jumped overboard and spent the rest of his days wandering the earth until dying in Enid, Oklahoma, at well over 100 years of age. The Junius body in Green Mount is actually a poor sailor who was returned to Mary Ann. And the mummy is not really a mummy - Junius was so old and so wrinkled by 1903 that the corpse looked like that naturally. My apologies to the deceased.

Hey, Gene -- how does that scenario sound to you, and does it remind you of any song that we can play as background music as we foist yet another fable on the unsuspecting public?

If the mummy was 6' 1", and the wanted posters for JWB say he was 5' 8" tall obviously they can't be the same person, even beyond the many reasons we already know. The final reason I am seeking is definite proof in census records, etc as to exactly who David E. George was. George Rainey, a former postmaster in Enid, OK claimed that he was, in fact, David E. George, but didn't share a name for the granddaughter Mr Rainey communicated with in MS, nor a bank name in TX where nephew Willie George worked as a banker. I'm not seeing a banker Willie/William/Will* George in census records as a banker in TX. If George Rainey had proof he should have shared more information. I want to believe him; however, I haven't found a suitable David George in 1850-60 census records to fill the bill. I did notice that Oakland University in Detroit does have a folder for George Rainey, "Rainey, Geo. folder 9". There were letters exchanged between George Rainey and others concerning David E. George. None seems to have turned up online. At least I haven't found them.