Breaking a leg

[John Stanton]

Don't forget to add the hrs from DC to NY. total hrs dc to montreal 52 hrs. They would leave DC at 7 AM and arrive Montreal o930 0f the second day. L. C. Baker said in his "HIST OF THE SEC SERV" that his detectives rode those trains. But they didn't have the authority to make an arrest. The local Provost Marshal did any arresting. IMO Booth went south 1. It was the shortest rt. to the Confederacy. 2. he had help lined up - BUT they didn't help. He didn't even follow the planned route. I didn't mention in the first reply, that the RR up the Hudson didn't exist. What trains there were, would mean more transfers. Another item - Any bridges involved in that rt. had to be minor. The big rivers had no bridges.