VP Beast Butler?

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That had been local lore as long as I can remember, but I always heard that they threatened to do that to Lloyd - not sure that the threat was given even a chance of being carried out. Barbee's Papers are impressive, but he was definitely of the first-half of the 20th century thinking on the innocence of poor Mrs. Surratt. At one point, he even claimed that Booth and Herold did not come even close to the Surratt House, choosing a route that would take them closer to the county seat of Upper Marlboro - and farther away from the Potomac River.