Herold and Surratt

[Pamela]

P.173 in Weichmann's book, he described the letter from John Surratt sent from Montreal and delivered to the house by Annie Ward. Weichmann said he believed Mary Surratt purposely showed it to him at that time, which was in the evening after they returned from the Surratt tavern on April 14th. "A queer circumstance connected with it was that the writer referred to me as having driven his mother into the country on the previous Tuesday, April 11. This he did in a jesting manner. Now, the hotel register of St. Lawrence Hall showed that John Harrison Surratt, under the assumed name of John Harrison, arrived there on the 6th of April 1865, left on the 12th for the United States, and returned on the 18th. Now, how could he be in Canada on the 12th of April know about the drive to Surrattsville on the 11th unless he had been informed to that effect by telegraph? (my emphasis) That is another of the unexplained circumstances that has always been an enigma to me."

If that information was sent to Surratt by telegraph, then the sender was likely Booth to inform him that his mother had advanced the conspiracy by telling Lloyd to make the "shooting irons" available in the near future.