The Baltimore Plot: What was Pinkerton Thinking?

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(02-10-2016 11:23 AM)maharba Wrote:  Thanks for the suggestions and the note about the Stashower book, Gene. I like your analysis, too, of the situation in Maryland as it applies in this case. Maybe there really was not a firm execution plot, maybe Pinkerton was inflating himself. But, like The Legend of John Wilkes Booth, there surely was a man who claimed to be, and so, like the parties here, is subject to being tracked in history. Here are some of the names I'm working on, at present.

James H. Luckett, a stock broker
William H. H. Turner, a Baltimore Circuit Court clerk
Otis K. Hillard or Hilliard
Mr. Starr a reporter for a Baltimore paper
William Byrne, a Baltimore liquor salesman
Cipriano Ferrandini, a barber
George Nicholas Sanders, a govt official, later on the Most Wanted List. He actually was listed in 1865 as a Wanted conspirator with a large Bounty offered for his capture.

Look really hard at Cipriano Ferrandini. And consider that he was an immigrant from Corsica at a time when revolutionaries were sweeping through Europe trying to overthrow tyrannical heads of state. To such men, Abraham Lincoln represented that type of tyranny even before he took office. George Nicholas Sanders was a protege of the revolutionaries and a first-class instigator back here in America.

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(02-10-2016 12:28 PM)Gene C Wrote:  You may find this interesting regarding Cipriani Ferrandini, if you haven't already read this

http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/spe...73bio.html

Thanks for this link, Gene. This article was done by former State Archivist Ed Papenfuse, a very good historian. I doubt he would waste time on the subject of Ferrandini if he didn't see at least some live embers under the smoke.