The Baltimore Plot: What was Pinkerton Thinking?

[maharba]

Thanks for the suggestions and the note about the Stashower book, Gene. I like your analysis, too, of the situation in Maryland as it applies in this case. Maybe there really was not a firm execution plot, maybe Pinkerton was inflating himself. But, like The Legend of John Wilkes Booth, there surely was a man who claimed to be, and so, like the parties here, is subject to being tracked in history. Here are some of the names I'm working on, at present.

James H. Luckett, a stock broker
William H. H. Turner, a Baltimore Circuit Court clerk
Otis K. Hillard or Hilliard
Mr. Starr a reporter for a Baltimore paper
William Byrne, a Baltimore liquor salesman
Cipriano Ferrandini, a barber
George Nicholas Sanders, a govt official, later on the Most Wanted List. He actually was listed in 1865 as a Wanted conspirator with a large Bounty offered for his capture.