Olivia Jenkins

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(07-28-2015 03:40 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  Thanks, Roger and Laurie! Mary Surratt in one of her interrogations also claimed that someone called on the night of the assassination with papers for Olivia. Asked "The night of the murder who was at your house?" she responded, "No one except our own family. A gentleman I don't know called to leave some newspapers for a niece of mine. He did not come in and I don't think I saw him. The little servant girl took the papers." (p. 1241 of "The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence).

Other than Weichmann's guess, that is the only version that I had ever heard, Susan, until this new conjecture popped up about ten years ago suggesting that the night caller was Booth. It would seem to me that Olivia Jenkins would be the one to know the correct person.