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RE: Bowie Knife - Wesley Harris - 07-27-2014 07:38 PM
(07-27-2014 06:55 PM)BettyO Wrote:Quote:They were most likely part of the box of weapons Booth brought back from New York and transferred to Arnold & O'Laughlin in Baltimore to take back to D.C. for use in the kidnapping plot.
Could these be the same knives that Powell and Surratt were playing with when Weichmann stumbled in on them in Powell's bedroom at the Surratt Boarding House?
That's my guess, Betty.
RE: Bowie Knife - RJNorton - 07-28-2014 04:30 AM
Please excuse if this has been answered before - is the knife George Atzerodt threw away in the gutter by Creaser's shoe store still around somewhere?
RE: Bowie Knife - Wesley Harris - 07-28-2014 07:10 AM
(07-28-2014 04:30 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Please excuse if this has been answered before - is the knife George Atzerodt threw away in the gutter by Creaser's shoe store still around somewhere?
Roger, it is on display at Ford's.
RE: Bowie Knife - RJNorton - 07-28-2014 07:39 AM
Thanks, Wes.