Louis Weichmann

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(09-08-2015 06:44 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  I read that "Clara" had been identified as Clara Pix Ritter. I saw that there's an article about her in the 2007 Prologue, a publication of the National Archives, but the only site that has it for download is behind a paywall--anyone know if it's worth reading?

Possibly some new information has been uncovered since 2006 when Mike K. sent me the text of the Clara letter.

At that time it was Mike's guess that Sarah Slater wrote the letter. Mike felt Booth (or John Surratt) was behind this (as a way of embarrassing Weichmann). Mike said the War Department investigated the letter and "at the return address, they found a bewildered elderly woman who told about the shady activities of people who wanted to use her address, look through her mail, etc. The lady's neighbor at the time was a man named Thomas Zininia, and his name showed up on an envelope in Booth's trunk. I never quite knew how to connect these points, but assume Zininia was working with Surratt in New York, and Booth had gone up there to meet him -- perhaps about sending a letter to Weichmann."