John Surratt's real parents?

[Gene C]

I can't remember where I read this, perhaps in his Rockville, MD lecture, but...
John Surratt claimed that while he knew his mother had been arrested, the people up in Canada who hid him kept the information regarding the trial from him. They told him the feds were keeping her in prison just to get him, and she was not in any danger. 'He claimed he did not know of the gravity of her real situation until it was to late for him to do anything about it.