The Montreal Link

[Barry Sheehy]

(06-22-2018 07:50 PM)Steve Wrote:  While looking at the Internet Archive site, I came across this pamphlet published in 1865 by Confederates in Canada after the assassination trial was over trying to rebut the testimony of "Conover"/Dunham, Merritt, and Montgomery. It might be worth a look if you're interested in the topic:

https://archive.org/stream/cihm_89111#page/n5/mode/2up

Yes I am very much interested. I have seen some of the newspaper rebuttals but not a "pamphlet". Please send coordinates so I can have a look. Thanks for the tip.
Someone asked for something I left out of the book. Here is one:
Thomas Jones was the senior Signal Officer in southern Maryland and someone who supported Booth on his flight to Virginia. Someone registering as T. Jones and Coln (Col) Jones turns up at SLH May 2nd 1864 arriving from the US (Baltimore I believe). The hotel registration book margin notes indicates that "Pollack", presumably Walter Pollack of the NDP, had an interest or association with Jones. This is in the book. What I left out of the book is that a Thomas Jones has his photo taken at Notman's Studio in 1864 dressed in US fashion with a cigar in his mouth. The photo exudes a man of action. Have a look at the photo at McCord Museum's web site and you'll see what I mean. This guy is in your face. Now compare the photo to the one on the cover of Thomas Jones book published decades later (1893) J. Wilkes Booth: An Account of His Sojourn in Southern Maryland After the ...By Thomas A. Jones. Look at the two photos and tell me this isn't the same man 25 years later? The resemblance is uncanny. By the way, there was no Thomas Jones found in the Montreal City Directory, so the Jones in the Notman Collection is a visitor. This gives us a hotel registration and a photo putting Jones in Montreal in 1864. I left the photo out of the book because it was one controversy too many but I believe the photo is very likely the real thing. Have a look let me know what you think? B.