Assassination Trivia

[Steve]

It's impossible for Booth to have been the man Hudspeth claimed she saw on the train, whom she thought was Booth. Hudspeth claimed the incident happened the day that Gen. Butler left New York City, 15 Nov. 1864 - though prosecutors said it was the 14th to account for Booth's signing into the National Hotel in Washington on the 14th. But he hadn't yet been to New York that month yet. According to Art Loux's book John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day, Booth was last in New York during the weekend of Oct. 29-30 and wouldn't return to New York again until 23 Nov.

According to Loux prior to signing in to the National Hotel in Washington on 14 Nov., Booth was in or near Bryantown, Maryland for the preceding 3 days. On 12 Nov., Booth was taken to the home of Dr. William Queen and discussed the abduction plot with him. Booth stayed the night and accompanied Dr. Queen and Queen's son-in-law John C. Thompson to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Bryantown the next day. Loux speculates that Thompson may have first introduced Booth to Dr. Samuel Mudd on the 13th as well.