Assassination-Related Suicide?

[Jill Mitchell]

Thanks, Betty. I was sure that if anyone knew the answer to the possible identity of the individual in question, it would be you. It still leaves the question: If this was indeed Thompson, why dig up, embalm and ship the body to DC? I wonder what they thought they would find--a swallowed capsule perhaps? (Now I'm speculating..ridiculously, no doubt.) Do you know from your sources if he was, as Henry Bascom Smith seemed to recall, a carpenter or builder?