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[Pamela]

I believe the emphasis was on identifying the doctors who tried to help Lincoln, and the whereabouts of actors and employees of the theater, and who else Booth assaulted. Stewart attracted attention because he was the first on stage and because of his enormous size and clothing. I read in more than one account that others quickly followed Stewart onto the stage. It is not hard for me to imagine that while many in the audience were frozen in uncertainty and shock, the police supervisor could have rushed from the dress circle to the stage. It has been said here that no mention was made by Stewart of Richard's presence, but I found that Stewart stated to Judge Olin within hours of the event, that two members of the "police corps" were exiting the theater at the alley door in close proximity to Stewart. Stewart made that acknowledgement I would say, grudgingly, after his imaginary account of heroism in his solo pursuit of Booth. At that point, Stewart and Richard's stories jive.

There is an overwhelming case made by John Fazio against Stewart's story, so if we eliminate Stewart's moonlit tale of a Booth chase, we have Stewart and two members of the police corps at the alley door asking which direction the assailant went, as Richards said. You might find it interesting and amusing to read Stewart's cross examination in the John Surratt trial, and the ridiculous degree of Stewart's meteorological, atmospheric and gas lit observations. It seemed to me that the lawyers on both sides were mocking him:

P. 987 (Pierrepont) Q." Do you recollect at all the conditions of the clouds--how far the heavens were overspread with clouds?" In response to another question Stewart said, A. "I do not know the astronomical range or mode of expression, and therefore cannot say more." (He had already been goaded into saying quite alot) "The moon was plainly visible. It was up sufficently high to begin to reflect a considerable amount of light upon the earth. Of course it was not as clear as it could have been in the absence of such a haze as overshadowed it." Q. "did you make any memorandum of the condition of the moon that night?" A. "I had no occasion to make a memorandum, but I have a very strong recollection in my mind."