Lincoln Reward Money Fraud?

[maharba]

I see several Booth wanted posters, one headlined $100,000, another was $30,000. And then the various (suggested and then final?) allotment of the Reward for John Wilkes Booth. Along the lines of 'reward money fraud', I notice Pension frauds, signup enlistment frauds, and maybe bounty land warrant frauds. For whatever reasons, many folks of the day seemed to believe that the Federals actually had NOT paid out any reward money for 'Booth's Capture'. I wonder...in a hypothetical where JWBooth had escaped and then really was captured say 1870, if there was no mistaking that such a (hypothetical) man truly was John Wilkes Booth, would the government then have paid out another reward?