Booth escape route north

[JMadonna]

My uninformed opinion, the news about Lincoln's assassination traveled faster thant the trains. With a broken leg, Booth sitcks out like a sore thumb. Even without it, everyone is looking for him. Without a network like in southern MD and VA, he has no chance of escaping (and even then, the good folks of the south were a bit reluctant to offer the famous southern hospitality) When Surratt and others were going to and from Canada, did they usually stay in public inns and hotels or private homes?

Looking for him and finding him are two different things. How many knew what he looked like? Pictures didn't travel over the telegraph. Besides, he was an actor who was skilled at changing his looks. Just keep cool and look innocent and in a few hours you're out of the country. Its been done many times before.