Ruggles. Bainbridge and Jett at the River

[Susan Higginbotham]

Someone thought the hotel register was authentic enough to pay $20,000 for it. As for the lady companion, she could have remained at the hotel while Booth went for his stroll.

Smith doesn't seem to have capitalized on Booth's visit to Newport in the days after the assassination, so I don't see what his motive would have been for lying to Stanton.

In his book, Arthur Loux also mentions actress Rachel Noah as having talked to Booth in Boston backstage on April 5 at Edwin Booth's performance in Hamlet and Orlando Tompkins receiving an inscribed ring from Booth in Boston on April 6.