The evidence that sealed Mrs. Surratt's fate

[Jim Garrett]

Police Superitendent A. C. Richards also presents a strong case concerning her behavior. The Police had received a lead that John Surratt was somehow connected to John Wilkes Booth. Richards went to the boarding house on the night of the assassination to investigate. He arrived after midnight and found Mary Surratt fully dressed in a darkened parlor. When confronted that John Wilkes Booth had shot the president and that they wanted to talk to John Surratt, she show no emotion. Wow, you would think she would have flipped out. Richards described her answers as curt and evasive. Richards felt she was likely the #2 person in the conspiracy.

A.C. Richards has a series of correspondence with Louis Weichmann in the late 1890's. Many of those letters are for sail on ebay or directly from Nate Sanders of Santa Monica.