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[RJNorton]

I should mention that at least one assassination author writes that there was no tipster in the street. In The Web of Conspiracy Theodore Roscoe writes that the government had known about the Surratt boardinghouse since February, 1865, and after the assassination Police Superintendent A.C. Richards sent the detectives (including McDevitt) to raid the boardinghouse in the wee hours of April 15, 1865.

Roscoe makes no mention of a tipster. If this account is correct, it would seem McDevitt's account of a tipster in the street is called into question. Gleason's account also doesn't mention a tipster in the street (unless I missed it).

I am not sure what to make of Gleason's account. He says, "Booth went to keep a professional two weeks' engagement at Fredericks City." This is blatantly false, IMO. It's not in Art Loux's book.

Did Weichmann really take Gleason to Booth's hotel and introduce the two men? I may be corrected, but at the moment I do not remember Weichmann saying anything like that in his book.