cannonizing

Updated: May 5, 2025

The police operations prove that the late murder as not a spasmodic and fitful crime, but long premeditated, and carried to consummation with as much cohesion and resolution as the murder of Allessandro de Medici or Henri Quatre. I have been accused of cannonizing Booth.

George Alfred Townsend - The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth