boarding house next to Petersen's

[BettyO]

A lot of the ladies who "performed" on the stage at the Canterbury and Metropolitan Music Halls were also considered somewhat "loose"; as was more or less shown by "Mary J. Gardner" and sister who played at the Canterbury and whose card turned up in Lew Powell's overcoat pocket! I seriously doubt that these ladies (who were supposedly "flashing their legs around" according to testimony at the 1867 Surratt Trial) were asking Lew for "spiritual advice" - SPIRITED advice perhaps, more or less....