Accomplice or mastermind?

[RJNorton]

Thanks, Richard. Here's the link:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opini...story.html

I can see that the 1865 Tribune editors made an incorrect prediction:

"Her son, Tribune editors hoped, would soon be captured and tried: "One of them has been hanged, and the other will be hanged when he gets his desserts."