Booth escape route north

[Troy Cowan]

Laurie wants to know:

1 - The only reference that I have ever seen to Booth's kidnapping plot having included getting fresh horses is in Smoot's book and says that he heard from Atzerodt that the fresh horses would come from a man named Hunt[t] in T.B. The only man named Hunt[t] in T.B. in 1864 or 1865 was my great-grandfather.

(So, now we know that your grandfather was part of the conspiracy to kidnap Lincoln? Laurie, no one has mentioned the name Hunt, why bring it up?)

#2 - Please identify George Baird.

(A twenty-two-year-old sailor serving at the Navy Yard. He went to school with David Herold and knew John Lloyd. After the assassination, he went to Surrattsville to see what he could find out. Much later he became Rear Admiral George W. Baird, USN.)


#3 - The resident of the Surrattsville area (about two miles south of the village) was named Walter Griffin, not Griffith. #4 - There was no Wylie within the Surrattsville area (unless he was a coyote). Wasn't Judge Wylie a resident of D.C.?

(I suppose you believe that all the people involved with the kidnapping of Lincoln were all local people and they left their names with authorities so researcher in the future would know of their involvement?)

#5 - I know the distance from the railing to the floor at Ford's Theatre. Go find it for yourself -- like good researchers do!

(That's right Laurie, if you have information, keep it to yourself and belittle others as often as you can.)

(I don't want to know the distance from the railing to the floor at Ford's theatre. That information could be misleading. I want to know the distance from the floor in Lincoln's box to the stage. If I lived in Washington and had a tape measure, it would be an easy thing to accomplish. As it is, I have to rely on others. Depending on who it is, I may not believe them unless they describe their method.)