Booth escape route north

[Dave Taylor]

(09-06-2013 07:01 PM)Troy Cowan Wrote:  Jenny said, "PS: It's Herold, not Harold."





Yes Jenny it is Herold. Another mistake I made is on my book review. I said William Stanton, not Edwin Stanton.

Name errors make things difficult. I will try to correct my error on the review, but unless you convince me that Herold is less confusing than Harold, I will probably continue to use Harold because it is written that way in many government documents.

While it's true that the detectives were, literally, going by ear when they were writing down evidence and names, time and research have provided us the true names for many of the conspirators. While there is an acceptable level of variance for some of the more elusive individuals (Rittersbaugh, for instance) I don't see any excuse for not spelling David Herold's name correctly.

Also, I hope we are all aware that the "government document" above is a complete fake. This wanted poster was made by some modern digital artist and not by the government in 1865. It uses David Herold's mug shot from 1865, and John Surratt's mug shot from 1867 after all.