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jonathan · (This post was last modified: 08-12-2012 11:51 AM by jonathan.)

Laurie, that's exactly my point about the muddy pants. If he got thrown, seems like more of him would be muddy and not just his pants. Only his pants being muddy indicates that the mud was being thrown up from the road, but wasn't thrown up far enough to get his top half muddy. And if he was muddy all over, it seems like that's how it would have been described...."he was muddy", rather than "his pants were muddy".

As far as the people he told the thrown from a horse story, in the article Rojer posted, Kauffmann says that it was about a dozen. But I'd be curious what those details are. For instance, he mentions that some of the people he told knew about the assassination, and lists John Lloyd as an example. But as I understand it, Lloyd was told of the assassination as Booth and Herold were leaving. So presumably when they told Lloyd that Booth had been thrown, he did not yet know about the assassination. It's easy to see how they might have come roaring up to the Tavern with the intent to keep the secret, then in a moment of bravado as they're leaving tell Lloyd the truth.

As far as Mudd's claim that they told him Booth was thrown, that can be dismissed immediately as far as I'm concerned. What exactly was Mudd going to say? He couldn't very well say "Oh, they told me he broke his leg jumping to the stage after shooting the President".

(08-11-2012 12:14 PM)L Verge Wrote: Jonathan,

Doesn't the name "Manteo" have a historical tie to the Lost Colony?

Yes, the town of town of Manteo is the county seat of Dare County, which includes Roanoke Island. Roanoke Island is where the Roanoke Colony (The Lost Colony) was established in 1587. The town was named after a Native American Croatan chief, who acted as something of a mediator between the Colonists and the Natives.