Those Booth Horses Again -

[RJNorton]

(04-17-2014 10:34 AM)L Verge Wrote:  Just a note that Anna never mentioned Booth being a visitor at the H Street home on the night of the assassination. In her statement of April 28, 1865, as well as her trial testimony, Anna mentions only the visit from Mr. Kirby, a neighbor (and believed to be Mrs. Holohan's brother).

Laurie, I was relying on Weichmann's word when I said that.

Weichmann writes that, "Mrs. Holohan corroborated the testimony of the writer as to the fact of some person coming at that time, but if Mrs. Surratt said to her it was Mr. Kirby, then Mrs. Surratt stated what I believe to be a deliberate falsehood. The words of Mrs. Surratt's daughter uttered on the morning of the 15th prove beyond question that it was Booth."

Later Weichmann writes that when the detectives left on the morning of the 15th Anna Surratt cried out, "Oh, Ma! Mr. Weichmann is right; just think of that man (John W. Booth) having been here an hour before the assassination. I am afraid it will bring suspicion upon us."