Assassination Trivia

[RJNorton]

Joe, I am sending you two free copies of Nottingham's The Curse of Cain as your prize.

According to Shelton Booth drank deeply from the bottle of liquor brought to him by Herold at Lloyd's. He says Booth was sitting on the porch at Lloyd's when he drank deeply. He says Booth probably didn't know anything about a package and just stopped at Lloyd's for a drink. Perhaps the slow poisoning of Booth went on for some time. I think he feels Mary Surratt was sort of a "double murderess" - involved in the plot to kill Lincoln and in an attempted plot to kill Booth.

Shelton also claims Seward was a probable but unknown conspirator. He feels there were parallel conspiracies, and Seward was in on one of them. I wonder why scholars don't hold this book in higher regard.