Abram B. Olin

[Steve]

(06-21-2025 04:08 PM)gshoub Wrote:  Thank you for the responses. I was able to access the Edwards-Steers book online and review the references to A. B. Olin. It was helpful. What I am looking for is any documentation of an interview with Clara Harris other than her affidavit. I have not been able to find anything. I had posted some questions about Harris a couple of years ago on this site, and after spending some time on it, I felt I had gone down a rabbit hole. I thought I would give it a second look to see if I could find anything. What continues to baffle me is the attributions made to her by Noah Brooks about seeing Booth earlier in the evening, as contrasted with her affidavit, which, from my reading, tracks closely to what Rathbone swore to and makes no mention of the earlier sighting.

On 16 April 1865 the New York Herald published an article with purported interviews with Clara Harris and Mary Lincoln:

I don't know what the Herald thought it was doing by publishing these bogus interviews. Maybe somebody gave them to the Herald reporter and the reporter trusted this person, wanting to get the early "scoop" of these interviews. I assume Brooks got his information from this article. Note that this article was published the day before Rathbone and Harris made their affidavits to Olin.

I don't know if this is also something you're looking for, but an 1877 newspaper interview with Harris and Rathbone was posted on this earlier thread:

https://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussi...l#pid89753