The Baltimore Plot: What was Pinkerton Thinking?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Lamon, who accompanied Abraham Lincoln, was pretty tall, too (6'2''). Also I think you can't compare the "media situation" and the people's "awareness" of what Lincoln looked like with the situation today. How many pictures were to be seen in the newspapers? And how far did they make people aware of his actual body size?
Lincoln went from Harrisburg to Philadelphia and from there on another train to Washington via Baltimore. Before Lincoln boarded the train to Philadelphia, all telegraph lines from Harrisburg had been cut so that if someone there got wind of Lincoln's departure, the information couldn't spread. No one expected Lincoln to be in Philadelphia at that time.
In Philadelphia, Lincoln, Lamon and Pinkerton spent the time until the departure of the Washington train by riding around in a closed carriage. Pinkerton had arranged that the train for Washington departed immediately after Lincoln (together with Lamon and Pinkerton and a man named Kennedy, an employee of the railroad company) reached the train. They arrived at the station in the carrriage at last minute. The conductor had been told he had to wait for an urgent parcel with government dispatches that had to be delivered to Washington. Kennedy delivered the "fake" parcel and the train left.
Kate Warne had reserved the four double berths on the back of the train and had occupied them until Lincoln & Co arrived. She also had told the conductor she would be traveling with her “invalid brother”, who needed privacy when entering the train and prefered closed blinds. She left the train at Baltimore.
Lamon and Pinkerton reported that Lincoln told jokes to relieve the tension when they passed Baltimore and that none of them sleept during the journey.