George Alfred Townsend

“ Edwin Booth had been especially honored in the North, as Wilkes had been made much of in the South, and it thus happened that Edwin Booth, according to his sister’s statement, voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, a few months before Wilkes Booth shot him.
Living around the Washington hotels and theaters, occasionally playing for the benefit of some fellow-actor, and possessing a peculiar reputation on the stage as one who only required to be studious and persistent to surpass his brother in fame. ”

“ Keith, the old friends of Martin in Canada suspected that Keith had blown him up too, as it was remembered that Keith applied for the large insurance upon the cargo.
As “Thomasson” and Keith were the same, so Martin, commencing his military career by an act of piratical treachery, was the sponsor for Booth, the murderer of President Lincoln. These facts I ascertained fro Marshal Kane of Baltimore, who for a good while after Martin’s death, acted as the adviser of Mrs. Martin ”

“ The vessel was found in the Lower St. Lawrence a complete wreck with every thing on her lost, and her supercargo and crew as well. Years afterward, when a German steamship was partly blown up at Bremen by this same Mr. ”