Louis Weichmann

[RJNorton]

Can anyone explain exactly why Father Menu was so clearly one-sided in the John Surratt trial. Louis Weichmann writes that Father Menu sat right next to John Surratt during the trial in 1867. In the courtroom Father Menu shook hands with John Surratt and never with Louis Weichmann. Menu was a professor at St. College College, and both Surratt and Weichmann were ex-students. Was it because Menu felt Weichmann's 1865 testimony had helped lead to the hanging of Surratt's mother? Menu had been Weichmann's father confessor, and Menu's behavior during the trial must have hurt him deeply.