Louis Weichmann

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(09-19-2015 06:42 AM)HerbS Wrote:  I also feel that Stanton had a lot of behind the scenes invlvolvement

Herb, you are another one who would enjoy reading Robert Lockwood Mills' opinions as expressed in It Didn't Happen the Way You Think.

(09-19-2015 07:40 AM)L Verge Wrote:  By the way, local lore down here (that I heard long before I worked at Surratt House) was that the feds threatened to hang Lloyd by his thumbs from a tree in the front yard if he did not divulge what he knew.

Bettie Trindal, in her Mary Surratt book, wrote, "When he (John Lloyd) refused to say anything against Mrs. Surratt, he was hanged by his thumbs until he could no longer stand the pain. Only then, in order to spare himself any further torture, did Lloyd agree to perjure himself against his landlady."

This is from p. 133 of her book, and it has an endnote. David Rankin Barbee's "The Murder of Mrs. Surratt" was Bettie Trindal's source for writing this in her book.