Booth's comments on Spangler ?

[BettyO]

Toia,

Powell had told invesitgators that the maid had been "insolant" towards him. When Doster related this during the trial, Judge Holt abruptly told Doster, "You don't have to relate what when on between that man and that girl...." whether meaning Powell and Mary or Powell and Annie the maid.

After the war, an ex-soldier who boarded at the Branson house reiterated that more was behind Powell's "whipping" of the maid than was told. He had talked to other Branson servants who told him about Mary Branson's midnight visits to Powell's room and her many attentions to Powell. Sounds suspicious to me, I think more went on with Powell's being upset than simply gettin angry over having his room cleaned and some perceived insolance.