The New York Crowd

[L Verge]

Some of you may have read a copy of a speech I did years ago on whether or not I thought Mrs. Surratt was guilty. One of my opening sentences referred again to a family story. I was told by my grandmother (who was backed up by my uncle who heard it from my great-grandmother Huntt) that Mrs. Surratt would come to T.B. for services at the blacksmith shop once the shop at Surrattsville ceased to function. Mr. Huntt knew Mrs. Surratt and said that she was not the proper Victorian lady that her defenders portrayed her as.

His comments almost mirrored that of the above John Tibbetts. He said that she joined in gentlemen's conversations and cursed and damned the "black-hearted Lincoln," even to the point of wishing that someone would shoot him. She also offered a thousand dollars to anyone who would get him. This offer from a woman whose dead husband had left her with $3500 of unpaid bills. Did she know of a source for the money?