Ruggles. Bainbridge and Jett at the River

[JMadonna]

Saw this excerpt online to share. The timing 'a week or ten days before the assassination of Lincoln' would correspond to Booth's supposed trip to Boston.

A remarkable feature in Montreal theatricals during 1865 is recorded by Mr. Henry Hogan, who writes me that John Wilkes Booth played a short engagement under the Buckland management, preliminary to the regular opening. Mr. Hogan says that after his performance was over Booth would hurry over to the "Hall" and down to Joe Dion's billiard rooms to play with the best in the city. He was here just a week or ten days before the assassination of Lincoln; in fact, when. the news reached here it was recalled by the friends of Booth that, just before leaving Montreal, he told them that they would hear in a very short time of something which would startle the world. His act on I4th April, 1865, caused a terrible sensation in this city, more especially among his theatrical col leagues and friends from the South, whom he had met at the ': Hall."

https://books.google.com/books?id=svQ_AA...al&f=false