Booth's comments on Spangler ?

[RJNorton]

Personally I have never read that he said anything specifically about Mary Surratt, George Atzerodt, etc. In American Brutus Mike Kauffman writes, "According to Herold, Booth was horrified by the bloodbath at Seward’s, and he said he was 'very sorry for the sons' though he 'wished to God that Seward was killed.' He was especially pained to hear that he had caused so much trouble for Ford’s employee Ned Spangler."

"Booth could not understand how his own recollection of the shooting could differ so much from what the papers described. As Herold later described it, Booth's version was almost surrealistic:

There was a soldier or officer trying to prevent him from going into the box, and the thought struck him to draw a letter from his pocket and show it to the man, which he did. The man let him pass. He was so agitated at the time, that he fastened the door, he thinks. He advanced toward the President, with the letter in one hand and the pistol in the other. He put the pistol to the back of the president's head, shoved it, and hollored "Sic Semper tyrannis." He says it was the President's secretary that caught him by the throat.."

"Booth was surprised to hear that Major Rathbone was wounded in the arm, since he had lunged straight at him, hitting him in "the stomach or belly."

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Toia, I believe Lewis Powell said Mary Surratt was innocent. Betty would know about this.