This is Ridiculous!

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Back to the book on Confederate activities in Montreal, here's one reason I would really like to see if there is anything new and different: There is a statement by Godfrey Hyams in The Evidence by Steers and Edwards that says he (Hyams) first saw Booth in March 1864 at Montreal’s Dourganua House. He was in the company of several men and was introduced to Hyams by Capt. Davis and Col. Martin of Stonewall Jackson’s brigade. George Sanders was “stopping” at the Dourganua at the same time. He then saw Booth in Toronto about two weeks afterwards – first at the billiard saloon of the Revere House and then that evening at the Queen’s Hotel and everyday thereafter for ten or twelve days in April of 1864. He saw him next in October last at the Queen’s Hotel in Toronto in company with Southerners where Jacob Thompson and W.W. Cleary were staying at the same time. Thompson’s room was the general rendezvous for Southerners. Hyams claims that he had seen Booth previously on the stage in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, and St. Louis.

P.S. Hyams was a known Confederate agent working from Canada and helping with Dr. Luke Blackburn’s attempt to spread yellow fever in various Northern cities. If Hyams spoke the truth, that means that Mr. Booth was hob-nobbing with some dangerous men (especially Sanders) at least a year before the assassination.