Did JWB visit Mary's boarding house after the assassination?

[Susan Higginbotham]

Weichmann first made public his claim that Booth had visited the boardinghouse an hour before the assassination in July 1865, just days after the executions. According to Joseph George in his article "Nature's First Law," Weichmann had privately made this claim to Ben Pittman sometime after June 12, 1865, and Holt and Burnett were furious when they found out that Weichmann hadn't mentioned this during the trial.

I find it strange that if Anna did indeed make the remark as quoted, Weichmann didn't mention it during the trial or his numerous interrogations, since he could have hardly failed to grasp its significance. My guess is that Anna might have commented on Booth visiting the house on the day of the assassination, rather than the hour before the assassination, and that Weichmann (perhaps unconsciously) embroidered it.

At John Surratt's trial, Olivia Jenkins claimed that the visitor to the boardinghouse was a man who brought her some papers.