Louis Weichmann

[L Verge]

"But what never happened, not in a million years, was that he sent a manuscript home a poorly educated 15 yr old boy to read." Again, JYO... Abel's reminiscences about Weichmann contain 90% recitation of the assassination events. The only thing detrimental to Louis is the claim that he admitted to being forced into testifying against Mrs. Surratt -- a claim that others had made about Louis for thirty years by that time. I think any fuss over Abel is uncalled for.

Msgr. Mulcahey and Msgr. Conroy are a different manner. These men were high on the Catholic totem and sworn to give mercy to the oppressed. Conroy only repeated what he had heard from Mulcahey (reporting, btw, at the time that Helen Jones Campbell came out with her so-so account of The Case for Mrs. Surratt). Mulcahey was the one who knew Weichmann in Anderson. What caused him to dislike the man so much - other than Louis's abdication of his faith?