Lucy Hale

[RJNorton]

I am just speculating here.

Long ago Jenny posted part of an interview with Harry Hawk. Hawk said:

"I thought perhaps he (John Wilkes Booth) meant to kill me and fled to my dressing room, which was up a pair of stairs in the wings. The reason I thought he was after me was because he was infatuated with a woman named Ella Turner, whom a wealthy friend of mine named Wilson had met and became enamored of. Finding that she was making a dupe of him, I told him of her relationship with Booth and so incurred her displeasure. I feared she had told Booth some story about me and that he had taken some cranky notion to avenge her publically."

So is there any chance that the lady with Booth at the Aquidneck House was Ella Starr Turner? Booth checked in as "J W Booth & Lady." Let's turn around who was being "protected" here - I think we have assumed it was the lady. But maybe it was Booth himself, not the lady, who was being "protected." Ella was a prostitute, and maybe Booth didn't want it known/talked about (especially by Lucy Hale) that he was checking into a hotel with a girl of that occupation?

Am I too far out here?