Yes he did on a train
Another interesting twist of fate (according to PBS History Detectives), John W. Booth's father, Junius Booth, wrote a threatening letter to President Andrew Jackson and said he would cut his throat or something like that. Many historians and biographers of Pres. Jackson thought the letter was not real. The PBS TV program investigated and identified the signature as Junius Booth and determined that he was going through a low time in his acting career and did in fact write the threatening letter.
