Booth's women

[Susan Higginbotham]

What is the source for the veiled-woman story? Unless I missed it, Terry Alford didn't include it in his Booth biography.

Never mind--I found it, "Guarding Booth's Body," in the April 15, 1890, Washington Evening Star, which reproduces a report by Lieutenant Commander Stone, reading, "A lady accompanied by two naval officers came on board, to visit the ship, and not to gratify a morbid curiosity." It's interesting how that evolved into the account in some secondary sources of a veiled lady wringing her hands and swooning over Booth's body.