No mustache, no broken leg, all silence, could John Wilkes Booth have gotten away with it?

Besides law enforcement, every bounty hunter in the land would have been hunting for him. His “Dead or Alive” wanted poster would have had a huge number on it, and the penalty for harboring or aiding him in any way would have been very severe.

The person who received a severe sentence for aiding Booth was Samuel Mudd. He escaped the death penalty by just one vote. His descendants have argued that he was just a country doctor helping an injured stranger; they and others have pushed for his conviction to be expunged. However, evidence shows that he had met Booth at least twice, possibly to discuss a plot to kidnap Lincoln.

The obvious solution here is to shave beforehand, then don a fake moustache.

I’ve read some of the documentation recently, that certainly disputes the general idea that Dr. Mudd had no idea who he was treating. As I recall, Roger Mudd, longtime American television newsreader was a distant relative.