Oddities of the Lincoln assassination

[Linda Anderson]

(11-09-2014 03:14 PM)Rhatkinson Wrote:  2. (As Jim noted) JWB lounged/napped in the very bed where Lincoln would later die in the Petersen House.

Heath

Speaking of beds, I wonder if Luther Baker slept in the same bed in the Garrett sons' bedroom that Booth slept in on the night of April 24th. Baker had gone to the Garrett farm a couple of months after the assassination looking for Booth's field glasses and apparently spent the night there.

Baker testified in the Andrew Johnson impeachment trial that, "There was a little boy, about five or six years old, playing around, and on questioning him I learned that Booth gave the opera glass to his sister, Joanna Garrett, and that she had put it in her father's writing desk. Next morning I told the old gentleman what I knew about the opera glass, and that it must be produced."

Mrs. Garrett's sister, Lucinda Holloway, said in her account that, "Lieutenant Baker and Jack Garrett went up to my mother’s, which was about eight miles, and got them. They came back to Mr. Garrett’s about four o’clock in the evening, and spent the night and returned to Washington the next day.”

http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...ld+glasses