Booth's Day on April 14

[Susan Higginbotham]

The AM visit is the new one to me.

I am hoping others may chime in on what I am about to say concerning this visit. I am not certain on this.

I do not know of an eyewitness to this visit. Weichmann worked a half day on the 14th and would not have been home when this visit allegedly took place. I think that there is an assumption that Booth came in the morning because Booth somehow knew that Mary was planning on going to Surrattsville that afternoon. Thus, at about 2:30 PM, he came with his package and message for Lloyd. So, I am thinking Booth's morning visit is more of a logical assumption than proven fact. I cannot think of "eyewitness evidence" for this visit.

Weichmann claimed in his book that he believed from a remark that Mrs. Holohan had made that Booth had paid a morning visit.

Mary, however, wouldn't have known until Weichmann came home from work early that he was going to be able to take her to Surrattsville that afternoon, unless she had made plans to get there by other means and changed them when she learned of the half-holiday Stanton had granted the clerks.