The hole In the door

[Rick Smith]

(09-17-2015 08:26 PM)Jim Page Wrote:  

(09-17-2015 06:50 PM)L Verge Wrote:  . . . one might want to give more consideration to the James Owens statement that the fugitives may well have been at Austin Adams's establishment in Newport for part of the time.

Laurie, at the risk of sounding like Johnny One-Note, I again say that a stay in the Adams's place has always seemed more likely to me than five days and nights in a pine thicket.

The escapees may have done in Newport what they did at the Garrett farmhouse; when someone seemed to be coming their way, quickly dash out into the pine thicket till the danger was past.

--Jim

Jim, You are certainly on the right track. James Owens stated that two strangers {he described them and their horses and it is an exact description of Booth & Herold and their horses} rode into the village of Newport, ". . . it was on a Thursday night, I was at home {meaning Adams' place}; it was pretty late, nearly supper time, when two men came there on horseback accompanied by a white boy {I would bet Sam Cox, Jr.}, they got off their horses, and the boy took them and went away."

The Thursday Owens referred to would have been April 20th. This is an illustration of Thomas Jones doing his job. The fugitives were moved from the "pine thicket" when the federals got too close.