What Was The Role of David Herold

[BettyO]

I agree. It seems so many authors follow what others wrote before without doing their own "digging"/research. If you read Steer's The Evidence - there is another reference to two young men who were witnessed one evening in early April (one of whom was Herold and the other who resembled Powell) running after a horse-car in an attempt to catch it. If this was indeed Powell, he did go out in the late afternoon/night at times....and he was out and abroad during the kidnap plot as well. He had also scouted out the Seward home the week of the 14th of April, flirting with Seward's parlor maid, according to Atzerodt. George Robinson had also seen him and thought he was perhaps a neighbor's kid. Powell could indeed get around....