No need to question this Lincoln conspirator’s guilt

[Susan Higginbotham]

(05-25-2016 02:41 PM)L Verge Wrote:  

(05-25-2016 01:44 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  In his book Weichmann supports his contention that Booth was the visitor by writing that when the detectives left on the morning of the 15th Anna Surratt cried out, "Oh, Ma! Mr. Weichmann is right; just think of that man (John W. Booth) having been here an hour before the assassination. I am afraid it will bring suspicion upon us."

And what proof do we have that Anna actually said that? The detectives had left the premises. Did Anna ever admit to such a statement? I don't recall her or anyone else mentioning this at the 1865 trial.

That was one of the things Weichmann in his August 11, 1865, affidavit claimed not to have remembered until after the trial. I have a very hard time believing that a man as intelligent as Weichmann didn't regard that as important to the government's case at the time he gave his testimony.