Where was John Surratt on April 14, 1865 ?

[Susan Higginbotham]

Kimball requested the reward on the ground that his report had led to the decision to return to the boardinghouse on April 17 and to the arrests of Mary Surratt and Lewis Powell. As Powell might well have not been captured had the authorities not come to the boardinghouse on the evening of April 17, there were certainly strong grounds for rewarding Kimball, Clark, Griffin and Jackson, even if Jackson's story proved to be unfounded.