Thomas Jones

[John Stanton]

The adgena for that meeting is unknown, but by it's timing, it almost had to refer, at least,- to Lincoln. It might have been to alert the Agents to the Bombing of the White House, and the possibility of a bunch of agents running for their lives ... Orders were - HELP THEM. The need for "Passports" to cross the Potomac applied to everyone. (Kinsey Johns Stuart, REL's relation,was no exception. Sarah Slater coming down from Canada, for the St Albans Raiders was not excepted etc. etc.) So, if Harney came running, the spycamps could not help him - he needed the passport. Was the April Meeting called to change protocol???? I AM guessing, but I am aware of the rules, and these new new guys, didn't comply. Booth came to the river and didn't have a passport. Nobody helped. Jones had to dump him and hope for the best. Just a guess.

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(05-11-2013 09:52 PM)John Stanton Wrote:  The adgena for that meeting is unknown, but by it's timing, it almost had to refer, at least,- to Lincoln. It might have been to alert the Agents to the Bombing of the White House, and the possibility of a bunch of agents running for their lives ... Orders were - HELP THEM. The need for "Passports" to cross the Potomac applied to everyone. (Kinsey Johns Stuart, REL's relation,was no exception. Sarah Slater coming down from Canada, for the St Albans Raiders was not excepted etc. etc.) So, if Harney came running, the spycamps could not help him - he needed the passport. Was the April Meeting called to change protocol???? I AM guessing, but I am aware of the rules, and these new new guys, didn't comply. Booth came to the river and didn't have a passport. Nobody helped. Jones had to dump him and hope for the best. Just a guess.

continued. Still guessing, but there are solid facts to work with. When the early April meeting was concieved, the only "approved" plan was Harney's mission. Booth was off somewhere (I think - D,C.) If Jones really meant to collect his back-pay while he was there, the meeting topic must have been trivial. Jones went home MAD, because he didn't get paid. Cawood wasn't "pressed" to go back, so he took some R&R with Mama (Happy Mother's Day Mrs Lucy Johnson Macon Cawood). There is no way that they knew that Booth would come running and need help on a certain date. Whatever happened, Booth sat in the brambles for better than a week. I am wondering whether Booth KNEW to go to Dr. Stuart. (Jones never mentioned Stuart) was it - Harbin, and his ilk, that sent him there? Who knew that Stuart was part of the "Secret Line"? (That's enough - cool it)
Happy Mother's day to all the Mamas, everywhere.