Questions Regarding Mary Surratt

[Dennis Urban]

While this thread has not been added to for a while, based on recent reading I have a question and a comment.

1. Has the clear identity of the roughly 9 PM visitor to Mary at the boarding house on April 14 ever been established? Did anyone other than Weichmann say it was Booth? Other theories have been offered by other authors but I've not read anything definitively.

2. I am intrigued by the Gonzaga wheelbarrow story. It was the ring of truth to it. I wonder why Fr. Wiget was able to retrieve the wheelbarrow on his April 15 visit to Mary if the house was being watched by the authorities (although maybe not yet). Humorously, if Powell knew the wheelbarrow was in the back yard and he referenced it when he showed up to dig the gutter, some truth to that story of his may have been established. Most of that story comes from a Surratt Courier issue (VII-33) per Paul Warren's book on Gonzaga College. I'd love to read that account.