Frederick Demond

[Pamela]

"One has to put together ALL the pieces of the puzzle before assuming anything." -BettyO

One doesn't need to put all the puzzle pieces together, with history you will probably not be able to find them all. As I recall, Dave assumed that the following statement supported the cliff leap story. I can't find the police report, (Naples?) but this comes from it: "...he had been put in prison for insubordination, from which he escaped, jumping from a window or high wall." Presumably the writer of this report got his information from John Surratt near the time of his escape, who made no mention of jumping from a cliff, thus contradicting the cliff story rather than confirming it.

It's a very interesting story one way or another.