Identification of Booth's body

[mikegriffith1]

(10-19-2018 04:17 PM)L Verge Wrote:  And now, Mr. Griffith, since you are convincing very few of us (hopefully none), and we will obviously never convince you, why don't we just hang this topic up and stop repeating the same things over and over again?

Why don't you address the glaring holes and contradictions in the belated accounts that you are so uncritically citing as evidence?

* Munroe said he needed "no long inspection" to recognize the body as Booth. Really? Was he looking at the same body that Dr. May said bore no resemblance to Booth and whose lineaments (distinctive features, mainly of the face) looked nothing like Booth's? Was Munroe looking at the same body that Lawrence Gardner said looked so unlike Booth that "we were all struck by the lack of any resemblance to Booth" when the tarp was removed from the body?

* If Peddicord was there when the autopsy began and was "quite close to the examination," how in the world would he have failed to notice Todd and Stafford seeing and identifying the initials, which Todd said they did right after Barnes cut away the wrapping? How did Barnes fail to notice this? How did May fail to notice this? In a court of law, both Peddicord's and Todd's stories would be ripped to shreds because of these obvious discrepancies.

* How is it that well before the autopsy began, and before Dr. Barnes had even arrived, Peddicord and Hartley just happened, by amazing coincidence, to have a picture of Booth handy? These were two sergeants who had just been assigned that night to be guards on the Montauk. What on earth were they doing with a picture of Booth? I mean, really?

* Barnes said the body's face was "wild and worn," but Porter said the face was "unmarred," and Dr. May said the body bore no resemblance to Booth and that he could not believe it was Booth. Which is it going to be?

* Perhaps you have no problem with trusting belated witnesses who could not tell the difference between a hand, a wrist, and a forearm, but I do.

Furthermore, I haven't even brought up the issue of the scars on Booth's body that nobody saw on the body on the Montauk that night. Theodore Roscoe, among others, discussed this issue. Booth had several scars from accidents and altercations over the years. Nobody on the Montauk that night saw a single one of them, a very odd omission given that the Montauk witnesses were able to spot "pale" characters on a hand that could not be read unless you took a closer look at them.

And how about the tattoos on Booth's other hand, which consisted of a cross and some stars. If all these decades-belated witnesses amazingly noticed the small "pale" initials on the left hand, which could not be read unless you got a closer look at them, how is it that not a single person there or at the burial at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary noticed the cross and the stars on the body's other hand?