I don’t know if he’s being sick or not, but he’s holding onto one of the two poles that will be jerked out from under the platform. Notice the other soldier is a swell.....................
My great-great-grandma ran a boarding house in Granbury, TX. The legend goes that Booth survived and escaped to Texas. While in Granbury, he assumed the name John St. Helen and lived in granny’s boarding house. I’m thinking he also worked in great grandpa’s saloon. On his deathbed, St. Helen gave a death bed confession and told where to find the gun that killed Lincoln. The folks found the gun wrapped in a newspaper about the assassination under the boarding house.