Herold and Surratt

[Susan Higginbotham]

There are newspaper reports from 1907 that a Hanson Hiss, identified as a Cincinnati newspaper reporter, died. One report claims he was a suicide, the other claims that he died of exposure. He was 35 at the time of his death, and one report states that he was a Johns Hopkins graduate with family in Baltimore. That seems to make him a likely candidate to be the person who wrote about John Surratt.

Doing some more checking, this Hanson Hiss (whose full name was Phillip Hanson Hiss) was indeed from a prominent Baltimore family. Here's a link to his tombstone at Greenmount:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...54&df=all&