Payne's Statement?

[MaddieM]

(07-13-2014 12:16 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I have always wanted to check the lineage of Mary Murray because there were Murrays from Southern Maryland who married into the Huntt family and had distinct Southern leanings. A Murray female was also married to the son of John Chandler Thompson, the proprietor of the T.B. Hotel where Herold spent the night of March 17, 1865. Thompson was surely a member of the Confederate underground, and it was on the porch of his establishment that the Confederate George Emack was able to slip free, stab his Union soldier guard, and escape.

My point to all this is that Mary Murray may have been in the same category as Mrs. Surratt in renting rooms to Confederate agents, and she was not about to squeal on her compatriot. There is no doubt in my mind that Mrs. Surratt paid a visit to Powell.

Yeah but why? Would she do something like risk her reputation just for delivering a message? Or was she going there to find something out? Or because she needed some information?