Something I've Wondered About....

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(06-28-2014 01:56 PM)BettyO Wrote:  As we approach the 149th anniversary of the hanging, I have been thinking that of all (or at least) most of the guards who actually guarded the death cells of the Conspirators on the evening and morning of July 6-7, almost nothing has been written or recorded. According to Hartranft, at least two guards were positioned outside the various death cells - yet we have apparently never read/heard anything from these fellows as to the goings-on within the chambers themselves on that fateful day. I've always wondered about this - perhaps these documentations are yet to be found? Thanks to John E and Barry C, we DO know the names of the guards who escorted the condemned to the scaffold.

I did find this online - and have never heard of this either:

http://www.grandhaventribune.com/opinion/opinion/122781

Anyone else ever heard of any recollections from the death cell guards themselves?
Just curious.....

Betty O, this isn't exactly what you asked for, but Thomas N. Conrad was put in the cells near the conspirators, and he could hear conversation with them. I don't remember any more than that. He may have been put there on purpose, and to report what he heard, to Woods, the Warden. Woods later on said he paid Conrad for "information and services. " That is a small mystery that I have never cleared up. I "Hear" that the Secret Service records are stowed in the same area where they restore old airplanes. I think that is called "Silver Hill" Maryland. I'll work on this next week. I just got back from a "Sarah Slater" trip with MORE info. I want to record this before I start a new Look-See.