Frederick Demond

[John Fazio]

(10-27-2015 09:36 AM)Pamela Wrote:  "One has to put together ALL the pieces of the puzzle before assuming anything." -BettyO

One doesn't need to put all the puzzle pieces together, with history you will probably not be able to find them all. As I recall, Dave assumed that the following statement supported the cliff leap story. I can't find the police report, (Naples?) but this comes from it: "...he had been put in prison for insubordination, from which he escaped, jumping from a window or high wall." Presumably the writer of this report got his information from John Surratt near the time of his escape, who made no mention of jumping from a cliff, thus contradicting the cliff story rather than confirming it.

It's a very interesting story one way or another.

Pamela:

What you say here makes sense to me, but there are things in my life now that make it necessary for me to move past this issue. Let everyone make their judgments and live with them, based on the information given in this thread and in the July 2, 2015, issue of BoothieBarn (Jumping John Surratt), including the July 7 post therein in which I set forth what I felt was a comprehensive response to earlier comments.

John