Assassination Trivia

[RJNorton]

One person said Louis Weichmann discussed Mary Surratt with him privately. What person said that Weichmann told him the following?

"Some time last winter I suspected the plot against the President. I told a clerk in the War Department and he informed Stanton. Stanton gave me the choice between turning State's evidence and hanging. Terrified, I told what I had heard, and, although I believed Mrs. Surratt to be innocent, Mr. Stanton appeared to believe her guilty. I did not want her hanged."