Was Stanton a murder target?

[Dave Taylor]

(10-19-2016 11:07 AM)loetar44 Wrote:  (2) How sure, without any doubt, is it that O’Laughlen was in Stanton’s home at the night of April 13? Or did Stanton, Cox and Hatter only see a man with a black moustache, who resembled O’Laughlen, because Walter Cox came at the trial with 9 other witnesses, all of whom stated that O'Laughlen was that night between 9.00 and 10.30 p.m. with friends wandering through the city, to see the Grand Illumination. An airtight alibi?

Thank you, Kees. I haven't had an opportunity to do any research on it lately, but in viewing this thread I was surprised that the general consensus was that O'Laughlen was a part of Booth's assassination plot. In the back of my mind I kept thinking that that there was no real evidence that placed O'Laughlen at Stanton's. Yes, the government found witnesses to "identify" O'Laughlen, but I thought for sure that O'Laughlen's defense came up with far more credible witnesses that proved that he wasn't anywhere near Stanton.

I'm not saying that Stanton was never considered a target by John Wilkes Booth, he very well may have been, but on April 14th, O'Laughlen was not doing Booth's bidding, he was recovering from a hangover.