 Two days after Lincoln's assassination, on April 16, 1865, Hines was in Detroit, Michigan, when he was mistaken for John Wilkes Booth, who was then the subject of a massive manhunt.After finding himself in a fight, Hines jumped several fences and made his way to Detroit's wharf.He waited for a ferryboat to empty its passengers and then forced the captain at gunpoint to take him across the Detroit River to Canada.