New Eyewitness Account?

[RJNorton]

Many thanks to Steve for sending more old newspaper articles that mention the "imaginative" Silas Owen. I wonder what Charles Leale thought if he read articles such as the third one.

The first article is from the New York Herald dated November 23, 1887. The second one is from The Sun dated November 24, 1887. The third one is from the Fort Scott Daily Monitor dated June 1, 1887.

Steve writes, "I found a couple of interesting 1887 news articles that mention Silas Owen. He was arrested in November 1887 for falsifying documents for the mill he worked at, giving children who worked there older ages to get around state laws prohibiting the hiring of children under 13 years of age. It's not anything that impeaches his and Flood's Lincoln/Ford's Theatre claims, but I thought they shed some light on Owen's character and were worth sharing. I also found an earlier 1887 article with Owen making the same claims."