Thomas F. Harney

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(07-23-2015 08:15 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(07-23-2015 07:15 AM)HerbS Wrote:  The director of the Ontario County Historical Society[Canandaigua,NY] told me that the govt took the ledger from the hotel that John Surratt stayed in at Canandaigua,NY after the Lincoln Assassination!So that might explain why we can't prove his stay in Elmira and Canandaigua,NY!

Hi Herb. In the new book on John Surratt author Michael Schein writes as follows:

"Nonetheless, it is physically possible that John H. Surratt paraded around Elmira attracting attention in his Garibaldi jacket precisely to manufacture an alibi, and then made it to Washington in time for all the witnesses who claimed to have seen him there on the day of the assassination to be both accurate and truthful."

I agree that if Surratt were in Elmira on the 14th it could have been the government which took the ledger pages from the Brainard House.

I have wavered back and forth on Surratt's whereabouts on the 14th and still cannot make up my mind on what I think.

While I am enjoying Mr. Schein's book, I still have memories of Mr. Hall and Gen. Tidwell researching train schedules back and forth for a conceivable way to get Surratt back to D.C. in 24 hours without success.