Did Rathbone get blamed?

[Linda Anderson]

It takes a lot of nerve for an unarmed man to go after an armed man. Especially as quickly as Rathbone did. There must have been something deep in the character of the man to have responded like he did.

I read somewhere, maybe in Henry and Clara, that Rathbone compared himself to Pvt. George Robinson, Seward's nurse, who prevented Lewis Powell from killing Seward. Robinson was unarmed when he fought Powell who slashed Robinson with a bowie knife.