Christian Rath

[tom82baur]

Thank you to loetar44 for posting that link. Absolutely fascinating material. I could not stop reading it.

Among many interesting comments, he says that Payne hid himself in Mrs. Surratt's cellar and was found there by officers when they came looking for him. Upon being brought up out of the cellar, Mrs. Surratt denied knowing him.

Other reports, if I recall correctly, state that he came to the door late at night, claiming something about being hired to dig the gutters. Government agents answered the door and arrested him.

I have never heard Rath's version of this story.

Has this version appeared elsewhere, or been otherwise substantiated, or dismissed?