Stupid question?

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(01-18-2016 03:32 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  I "third" Gene and Eva!

Seems logical, Kees. One thing I noticed, though, is the listing for Heard in "Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator" edited by Mike Kauffman. Heard is listed in the index, and the sole reference reads "accepts guns from O'Laughlen." The mystery to me is that after the word "Heard" Mike K. writes in parentheses "Hurtt?" Maybe I am misinterpreting, but it comes across to me as Mike thinking Arnold's reference to a "Mr. Heard" might actually be a reference to a "Mr. Hurtt." I must say I do not ever recall seeing a reference to a person named Hurtt in Lincoln assassination literature, so I have no clue to whom Mike might be referring, or why he put "Hurtt?" in parentheses after "Heard."

I finally did some checking on "Mr. Hurtt." My brain has not failed me completely! There were actually two DR. Hurtts who lived in Piscataway, Prince George's County, Maryland (five miles from Surrattsville), which was often frequented by David Herold and the people well-known to him before the war when he and his father hunted with many of them. Thomas Harbin also lived there for awhile.

One of the doctors died in 1863, so that rules him out, but Dr. Edgar Hurtt was very much alive in 1865. I haven't anything to link him to the conspiracy, but I just remember Kauffman and/or Hall and Gaddy floating his name around -- possibly in connection to the Doctors' Line or the Booth plot.