The Booth Deringer pistol

[Dennis Urban]

(01-04-2017 12:35 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Just to throw a little extra in the game - a bullet mold (I believe for a .41 caliber pisto) was found in Mrs. Surratt's desk at the boardinghouse I'm digging in the recesses of my tired brain right now, so someone better double-check me.

A bullet mold was definitely found. I do not recall where the caliber was stated. Interestingly, the only pistol I ever read carried by John Surratt was a Sharps Pepperbox .22 cal. No telling just whose bullet mild that was.