Open-ended questions

[BettyO]

(07-09-2012 08:55 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Well, we know Booth "assinged" Mary Surratt a task. Why her and not someone else? Was it because she had a "good cover story"? Was she less conspicuous? More reliable?

Mary was more or less "assigned" something! I doubt that she didn't know what was in that package that she delivered to Mr. Lloyd -- she may have know something was afoot more or less - it's odd that JWB had visited her just a short time before she left for the country on the afternoon of the 14th and gave her the paper wrapped parcel. Did she think that she was delivering something from her son John? Or did she know what was in that package from that refined actor Mr. Booth? Was she blatently helping "The Cause knowingly?

We'll probably never know - but I think she knew more than was implied....