Stupid question?

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I'm working without the proper books in front of me, but my brain is remembering a Mr. Hurtt being mentioned somewhere in the picture. I want to say that it had something to do with the village of Piscataway and that Hurtt may have been a doctor. Or, my brain may just be frozen - 17 degrees in balmy Southern Maryland today. I'm at home, refusing to go to work.

Didn't Arnold and O'Laughlen also take a room in a boardinghouse in D.C. and have some of the items with them? As for any weapons, etc. being taken to Herold's house, I strongly doubt that. Unless David had means of storing them someplace where all those sisters and his mother could not learn of them, he wouldn't take the chance.

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Kees - Don't forget that the Spencer carbines, rope, and monkey wrench were in the supplies that went as far south as T.B. on the night of March 17, 1865. Herold spent the night at the T.B. Hotel before packing up and heading back towards D.C. the morning of March 18. He was met on the road between T.B. and Surrattsville by Surratt and Atzerodt and hidden in the area over the kitchen and dining room at the tavern.

In another case of dumb luck, Powell wasn't the only conspirator to arrive when federal officers were at a Surratt domicile. When Surratt and Atzerodt arrived to talk with John Lloyd about stashing the items, Atzerodt's brother-in-law (a federal officer) was having a respite at the tavern.