Booth's mistress, Ella Starr, and other "unknown" Booth ladies!

[Jenny]

I know those days all too well, Gene!

Me, too!

There is a side of me that wants to think the Etta letter was legitimate. Apparently New York Police Superintendent, John Kennedy, searched many of New York City's brothels looking for a woman named Etta. But, in a city that size, I would think there had to be brothels JWB could have visited that Kennedy didn't search or didn't know about.

Plus prostitutes often had several aliases or variations of names so that could have added to the confusion. “Etta” might have been one of those.