Booth in the Finger Lakes

[Anita]

(04-21-2014 09:39 AM)HerbS Wrote:  After two days of searching John Surratt's trial records.John does state that he did send a telegraph to John Wilkes Booth.He changed his mind and wrote to JWB,he reached for it,and the telegraph operator snatched it and said,"We must file all telegrams"! So Surratt left,and stated," that telegraph never could be found".Same-with Hotel Ledgers that he signed as,"John Harrison".

I wondered about those hotel ledgers also. Did they attempt to locate the telegraph operator? It appears that there is no paper trail but only "eye witness" testimony placing Surratt out of Washington at the time of or just prior to the assassination.