Where was John Surratt on April 14, 1865 ?

[Jim Woodall]

(04-02-2017 08:38 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(04-02-2017 02:16 AM)Jim Woodall Wrote:  While discussing Jarboes, of interest is a Judson Jarboe. In trial testimony, he was seen with Mudd outside of the Surratt house, supposedly. A Judson Jarboe was arrested in 1861 for the murder of John Ogden at the Spaldings election site at Long Old Fields (now Forestville).

Jim, the idea of Dr. Mudd being at the Surratt boardinghouse was new to me. I looked it up in Pitman and will post a portion of his testimony. The testimony was from William A. Evans. IMO, Evans was probably mistaken as I know of no evidence/testimony that Mudd ever went into the boardinghouse of Mary Surratt (other than Evans' testimony).

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"I have seen Dr. Mudd at different times for the last fifteen years, though I never was introduced to him. I have, I think, met Dr. Mudd at different places in the city, and at the National Hotel. Last winter I saw him go into the house of Mrs. Surratt on H Street; I could not say positively where the house is; it may be between Ninth and Tenth Streets, or between Eighth and Ninth Streets; somewhere along there. I asked a policeman, and a lady who was on the sidewalk, whose house it was, and was told it was Mrs. Surratt's. I had seen rebels going in there — Judson Jarboe and others — and I wished to know who lived there. It was a brick house, of perhaps two stories and an attic, and is, I think, between the Patent Office and the President's house, and is on the right-hand side going toward the Capitol."

Pittman also has Judson's Jarboe's testimony on page 213 where he does his best to say nothing as he is being examined, especially about the murder which he was apparently acquitted in a Prince George's Court. Several others, including Anna Surratt and John Holahan and Honora Fitzpatrick, were also questioned about Jarboe visiting the Surratt house and whether Mudd had. They denied it. Judson was picked up on April 15 according to his testimony and met some of the others at Carroll Prison.

Does anyone know why he was picked up on April 15th?