Breaking a leg

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(02-11-2013 02:40 PM)Laurie Verge Wrote:  By the time Wood was at Mudd's, the theater had been thoroughly searched. Is it possible that the torn flag and the chipped frame of Washington's lithograph was being used as possible evidence of Booth having some type of mishap in leaping to the stage?

Also, is there the slightest possibility that someone in the cast or audience mentioned his limping or being off balance to the authorities and that record has disappeared?

It must be something stronger than that.

Investigators apparently learn of Booth's broken leg upon questioning Lloyd and Mudd. Both of these men relate the "cover" story told to them by Booth and/or Herold that Booth broke his leg in a horse fall.

Yet somehow these investigators discount this cover story for another theory, seemingly out of the blue, that Booth broke his leg leaping to the stage. These telegrams indicate that, whatever they learned, whatever the evidence was that supported this theory, they were convinced by it. So much so that they discount the cover story despite the statements of Lloyd, Mudd, and Mudd's farmhand.

Then, the kicker---Booth validates that theory with his diary entry.

Until someone can explain how these investigators formed that theory and then how Booth learned of this theory prior to his diary entry in order to falsely validate it, I will remain somewhat convinced that there must be some truth to it: and that there must be some lost evidence that supports it so well that these investigors were convinced of it early in their investigation.