If that was his plan, then why didn't they?
And in your fantasy story, what were Lee's plans after being imprisoned for attempted murder?
He told her that because that's what he wanted her to believe , and tell the police when they came looking for him after they had traced the rifle to him. He had planned for the police to find all of the "evidence" in his false dossier and the newspapers would publish the tale about a Castro supporter attempting to shoot General Walker.
If that was his plan, then why didn't they?Two reasons....The police smelled something fishy ( Walker had a reputation for being a loon) so they didn't go looking for the gun.....
Marina fell asleep and didn't find the alarming note until just before Lee returned so she didn't call Ruth Paine as Lee and George had anticipated she would. Consequently the whole plot unraveled....though George attempted to rejuninate the plot when he told an FBI informant that Lee was the scoundrel who had tried to shoot Walker....He then left Dallas so as to be out of the country if attempted murder charges were filed.....
And in your fantasy story, what were Lee's plans after being imprisoned for attempted murder?The plan was that he would NOT be apprehended and arrested..... He and George had planned for him to flee to Cuba through Mexico
(recall that he had tried to set up a visit to Cuba in September, when he visited the Mexico City Cuban Embassy) But he knew that there was a possibility that he might be apprehended, as he told Marina in the "alarming note" that he left for her to find.....
But he reasoned that his "employer" would come to his legal aid and bail him out of the clutches of the police and he'd be whisked out of the country and granted asylum in Cuba.
PS... Yes, I know the September visit to Mexico was five months after the Walker hoax but I'm pointing out the same basic plot was being used in the hoax"attempt" to shoot JFK, that Lee was involved in at Walker's house in April..