Identification of Booth's body

[AussieMick]

(12-15-2018 06:05 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(12-14-2018 07:46 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I have been trying to follow up on the dentist and dental records because I know that master detective John C. Brennan was researching this back in the 1980s. I remember the name Merrill, but nothing else. I have a feeling that the dentist was from either Baltimore or Washington since the records seem easy to obtain, but why no mention is made of him being on site for the prying open makes no sense.

Laurie, I do not know if this is accurate or whether it will help track him down, but I have a file that says Merrill's office was at 344 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Unfortunately I did not record where I read that information.

Roger, I see this link has the dentist's address ...
http://www.histoire-medecine.fr/histoire...-booth.php
"As for Booth’s dentist (Hyson, 2001), Dr. William Merrill (whose office was at 344 Pennsylvania Avenue), he had cured and filled two teeth with gold for Booth shortly before the assassination. After prying open the corpse’s mouth, he positively identified his two fillings."

Might be useful to access 'The mystery of John Wilkes Booth's dentist' by J. Hyson, M. Kauffman (its a research article ... I cannot access) ... but maybe that's been mentioned before on this forum.

(BTW, I see various sources say that it was Dr Merrill that pried open the corpse's mouth ... strange that I previously hit on one source that said it was Sexton Weaver ...
and on another point, I see that Jameson's Beyond The Grave refers to Clarence E Cobb being turned away by Surgeon General Barnes because 'the committee' had seen two fillings. So, I'm guessing this is the source of Mike's Clarence E Cobb, although Cobb is not referred to as a Colonel and the book says General G.W. Brice asked Cobb to go to the Montauk ... but I cannot locate a General G.W. Brice on the internet ! I'm thinking Laurie was right about the quality of "Beyond The Grave".)