The hole In the door

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The only place they would have needed a fire would be the pine thicket, and neither Booth nor Herold were stupid enough to build one in overgrowth - even with a fire pit (which they probably did not have materials for) or in a wide clearing. If one thinks that they might have gotten cold during those long nights in that thicket, one might want to give more consideration to the James Owens statement that the fugitives may well have been at Austin Adams's establishment in Newport for part of the time.

Horse blankets are actually quite warm, and there is the possibility that Jones or the Coxes provided extra blankets. Anyone here that has gone through boot camp and slept in a pup tent under an army blanket in April in an area with a climate similar to Southern Maryland's?

I just don't see Booth having a gimlet in his possession unless he needed one on April 14. I can see the Ford family claiming that the hole was already there, however, in order to escape further condemnation.