Tidwell revisited

[McCastle]

Roger,
Confusing as it is to keep up with all of the names, imagine the look Louis Wiechmann's face when Lewis Powell showed up at Mary Surratt's door as "Wood" then returned as "Paine". Wiechmann was probably thinking .....are you kidding?

Thanks for clearing up that Tyson/Tyler issue!

Gene,
I saw a recent program about the Booth family DNA and the body in the barn. Near the beginning of the show, the narrator said that David Herold told the Union soldiers at Garrett's farm that it was Boyd who was in the barn. Shortly after saying it was David Herold, they said it wasn't David Herold, and that it was a man named Henson. All nonsense, of course, but the tale may have originated from Herold's conversations at Dr. Mudd's house.

Speaking of names in my alias Howell theory, I'm reading more trial testimony of David Barry, who rode with Surratt and Slater to Port Tobacco. His statement about knowing Howell's name seems odd considering he claims to have known Howell for "a long time." ( He thinks his name is Augustus?)

Q. Who was the blockade runner you spoke of?
A. Howell was his name.
Q. Did Surratt tell you about him?
A. He may have spoken to me about him. I knew him better than Surratt did.
Q. Who told you who he was?
A. I have known him a long time.
Q. Do you know his first name?
A. I think Augustus.