Olivia Jenkins

[Pamela]

Who was the lady in the sunbonnet? That was Smoot's arrival at the house, with no doorbell ringing. There was at least one more visitor who came, according to Weichmann's testimony, about 10 minutes after their return from Surrattsville. He testified that they returned "about half past 8 or 9." The doorbell rang and Mary answered the door, according to Weichmann.

I can't remember who at the dinner table said that it was Anna who went to the door.

Mary said in her interrogation that the only person who came to the house that night was: "A gentleman I don't know called to leave some newspapers for a niece of mine. He did not come in and I don't think I saw him. The little servant girl took the papers." That sounds as though the servant girl answered the door for Scott, if that happened.

Mary didn't say she answered the door for someone, or if Weichmann was wrong, that Anna answered the door, which would have been while they were at dinner. But both Weichmann and the other one of the ladies at the table said that someone came to the door at dinner time.

So, with Smoot, the dinner time visitor, and the man with papers taken by the servant, that was 3. Is there corroboration for Smoot's visit as there was for the dinner visitor? Because Mary did not admit, when questioned, to a dinner time visitor, it suggests she had something to hide, like another Booth visit.