John Surratt

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Rhatkinson. your post #91. This reply is very late, but each reply is based on our own analysis of the events discussed. ("We scratch our own itch"). Surratt did not get an assignment on Apr. 14. because he was not available. Booth and Surratt met after their failed attempt to abduct Lincoln - March 17 (+/-). From there on, Booth and Surratt never saw each other again - NEVER. The next day Booth went to NY. On March 25, Surratt went to Richmond, w/ Slater. April 2, Surratt headed for Montreal, w/ Slater. April 6/8 Surratt went to Elmira, w/ Slater. Surratt did not know there was to be an Assassination.
So, he did not betray anyone. He was "on duty", elsewhere. IMO if he had known, he would have been in D.C. It is apparent to me, that he headed North on April 15th, to report his findings to E.G. Lee. He made his way to Montreal by April 18, w/ Slater. Check the St. Lawrence Register for April 18, 1865. The signature, just below his , is "A. Reynaud". (Slater's mother's maiden name) Both names are in the same handwriting. (Which I believe is Rev. Cameron's). L.C. Baker got e report of the train trip from his Detectives, and tells us about it in his "Hist. of the U. S. Sec. Serv." Surratt was I.D'd several times along the train ride, but not Slater. She was in disguise.
(I wish I had studied this hard, when I was in School.)