What Was The Role of David Herold

[John Fazio]

(04-08-2013 08:29 PM)Jim Page Wrote:  I thought that I read somewhere that the fellow calling out the time in front of the theater was later identified as being somehow connected with Lincoln's coachmen.

Did I dream that? Not impossible.

--Jim

Jim:

My recollection is that the testimony relating to the fellow calling the time, which came from Sgt. Joseph Dye, was discredited when it was discovered that it had to do with a musical program that was to be performed that night, not with the assassination. Dye testified at the trial of the conspirators and again at Surratt's trial. He tried to place Surratt in front of Ford's on the fateful night, but apparently the jury didn't buy it.

John