Louis Weichmann

[Pamela]

In his report, Conroy said that the main source of his information on the Weichmanns was Reverend Mulcahy, who always looked at Louis with "undisguised contempt". The fact that many years later, Abel, his altar boy, and who was very young when he attended the business school, wrote a highly erroneous story about Weichmann's manuscript, which btw, reveals Mary Surratt's innocence, (which Mulcahy wanted to hear) and which he filed in the church, and that there were two manuscripts, is very reminiscent of the story told by the "secretary" who was described as a young man, a young secretary. The young man who "acted as Lou Weichmann's s secretary" typed a manuscript as opposed to it being given to him to take home to read by Weichmann, as reported by Abel in his report. Again, the description of the content of the manuscript is, imo, fictional. Conroy said that the young man who acted as secretary, got a job selling office supplies. It's possible that Abel had more than one job during his long lifetime--most people do, and sometimes two or three at the same time.

In other words, I'm suspicious about the identity of the young secretary who had so much information for Father Conroy, and exactly what Conroy wanted to hear. Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I wonder if the person described as a young secretary by Father Conroy, in a report in which he starts out by saying that most of his information came from Father Mulcahy, is actually Abel. The young secretary "worked for his tuition", according to Conroy, so he was a student, without much money, and Abel had to leave school at age 14 due to money problems. If they're not the same person, then there were two young boys (Catholic), providing Weichmann manuscript (and wrong) information to two successive Anderson Catholic priests who despised Louis.