Burns leaves Baltimore just a few weeks after his partner is shot and killed, feeling partially responsible for what has happened.
Hal had left Baltimore before the afternoon mail delivery.
He left Baltimore as a free agent after one year and signed with Florida.
They'd left Baltimore because of him, because she'd taken a hard look at her son's future and was frightened by what she saw.
Margaret had not wanted her to leave Baltimore.
Deep inside she must have known it, when she had packed and left Baltimore so precipitously the day before.
Being delayed by getting new masts, she left Baltimore in early May 1801.
"My impression was that he had left Baltimore over cost cuts, so I'm a little surprised he's agreed to come here."
They decide to leave Baltimore because the investigation is closing in on them.
Two days later he was about to leave Baltimore and pay a family visit when he received a telephone call.