Clara Harris's Bloody Dress

[RJNorton]

Linda, the one sentence in Clara's letter that really caught my eye was, "The President’s wound did not bleed externally..” I believe this is also in line with what at least one of the doctors also said.

This makes me wonder if some claims have been exaggerated.

Seaton Munroe, an attorney, met up with Laura Keene as she was departing the State Box and related:

"Making a motion to arrest her progress, I begged her to tell me if Mr. Lincoln was still alive. "God only knows!" she gasped, stopping for a moment's rest. The memory of that apparition will never leave me. Attired, as I had so often seen her, in the costume of her part in "Our American Cousin", her hair and dress were in disorder, and not only was her gown soaked in Lincoln's blood, but her hands, and even her cheeks where her fingers had strayed, were bedaubed with the sorry stains!"

Could the blood on Laura Keene's dress be entirely Rathbone's blood in truth?