Mask For Treason

[Rick Smith]

My point was not that Booth stopped for his hat at the townhouse, but for his pistols. The hat was secondary to that stop.

Booth may very well have gotten a hat at the boarding house.

He certainly was wearing a hat by the time he arrived at the Navy Yard bridge, since Sgt. Cobb made no mention of a hat in his testimony. Had Booth not been wearing a hat, Cobb would have remarked on this. A 19th century man wearing no hat in public would have been highly unusual and would have drawn attention.

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My point was not that Booth stopped for his hat at the townhouse, but for his pistols. The hat was secondary to that stop.

Booth may very well have gotten a hat at the boarding house.

He certainly was wearing a hat by the time he arrived at the Navy Yard bridge, since Sgt. Cobb made no mention of a hat in his testimony. Had Booth not been wearing a hat, Cobb would have remarked on this. A 19th century man wearing no hat in public would have been highly unusual and would have drawn attention.

Forgot to add that it was Bill Binzel who drew my attention to Sergeant Cobb’s testimony regarding the hat.