Does anyone know...?

[Steve]

(09-18-2017 06:12 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  I am disturbed by the fact that she apparently kept what she heard to herself until 1867. She supposedly overheard a conversation in which Abraham Lincoln, Mary Lincoln, and Tad Lincoln "could be got rid of," and she doesn't go to the police?

If what she heard were true, I wonder which one said that Mary and Tad could also be targeted. Booth liked kids, and he apparently once gave Tad Lincoln a rose backstage during a performance at Grover's Theatre (p.139 of Terry Alford's Fortune's Fool). IMO, Booth would not have said this. So that leaves Herold or Atzerodt. If I were a betting man, I think I'd bet on Herold.

I'm also disturbed that she wouldn't notify somebody at the time of the conversation. She also apparently didn't come forward after Lincoln was assassinated, even after attending the conspiracy trial where she was able to identify Herold and Atzerodt.