Booth's comments on Spangler ?

[BettyO]

Quote:Toia, I believe Lewis Powell said Mary Surratt was innocent.

Hello, Toia!

Powell repeatedly expressed to his spiritual advisor, Reverend Gillette as well as to Fathers Walter and Wigit, General Hartranft and Captain Rath that Mrs. Surratt was innocent. The boy stated in the death cell repeatedly that "She may have known something, but he didn't know exactly how much she knew."

It's my opinion that Powell was just displaying chivalry and that he was extremely guilty about being caught at her house; feeling that by being there that he implicated her. He also told Gillette that he would say anything, do anything if Mrs. Surratt could remain together with daughter Annie; "If I had two lives to give, I'd give them both to save that woman. If nothing else, she is a woman and men do not make war on women."