Surratt House Servants

[BettyO]

That could possibly be Surratt servant Susan Jackson who told military officials that on the night of April 15 following the President's murder that 3 men had come to the Surratt boarding house; one of them stating that John Surratt had been in Ford's Theater and/or his mother's house the night of the 14th when the President was shot. This is however, pure speculation and 2 years later, Jackson retracted her statement at the Trial of John Surratt in 1867. (See Beware the People Weeping, p. 157) also Weichmann's True History as well as Steer's The Evidence.... Jackson was subsequently rewarded $5,000 for her statements, however.

Laurie may know more.