No need to question this Lincoln conspirator’s guilt

[Susan Higginbotham]

Both Mary during her interrogation on April 28, 1865, and Olivia at John Surratt's trial stated that a gentleman had brought newspapers for her. Mary said that she did not know the man and that the servant girl took the papers; Olivia said that he was a "gentleman named Scott, of the navy."

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Since Weichmann testified at the conspiracy trial that he did not know who the evening caller was, there was no need for the defense at that trial to call Olivia to the stand to contradict his testimony or to cross-examine him on that point. Incidentally, I haven't seen it, but there's a letter from Burnett to Holt dated August 4, 1865, in which Burnett expresses his unhappiness with Weichmann not having mentioned Booth's alleged evening visit until after the trial. It's in file 1700, RG153, Records of the JAG.