VP Beast Butler?

[Thomas Thorne]

Re John Lloyd, I hope the new John Surratt bio alluded to in a new thread will address JHS's complete failure to even mention the name "John Lloyd " at the Rockville and other lectures in 1870. Surratt taunted Weichmann for betrayal of their friendship,matricide,cowardice and even threw in inability to ride or shoot. Probably only time constraints prevented him ripping Weichmann for not paying his cable bill.

Yet John Lloyd, the most damaging witness against his mom, total silence. We know the defense sought to discredit Lloyd as an unreliable drunk but they never claimed he was tortured and they never claimed he lied. I believe John Surratt knew Lloyd had secrets not worth rubbing his old tenant the wrong way. In 1870 the government still had some arrows in their legal quiver that could be fired at a too reckless John Surratt.
Tom