Where was John Surratt on April 14, 1865 ?

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(03-24-2017 02:07 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Read page 91 of Assassin's Accomplice by Kate Clifford Larson for a more detailed description of that midnight visit to the boardinghouse. There were more than just McDevitt at the door. When Weichmann answered the bell, McDevitt and four other associates came in (Skippon, Clarvoe, Bigley, and Kelley). They spread out in the house, so Susan Jackson (feigning sleep) may have seen only three men, but there were more. Holohan tagged along only after they searched his family's rooms.

Susan actually did see three men (only) at the house later that morning when Weichmann and Holohan came back from police headquarters with McDevitt accompanying them.

The next visit by authorities came on April 17 and included six military men inside and guards posted outside under the orders of Col. Wells. By that time, Holohan, Weichmann, and McDevitt were on their own hunt for Surratt in Baltimore, New York, and eventually Canada.

I am also trying to find the reference, but somewhere there is mention of someone outside the theater giving a tip to check out the Surratt boardinghouse. A.C. Richards said that there were quite a few tips that Booth knew Surratt. Those things led to the quick trip to H Street on April 15.

Is it true that after McDevitt, Skippon, Clarvoe, Bigley, and Kelley left Surratt's boardinghouse on April 15th Louis Weichmann could not sleep and left at 5 am the boarding house to go to Howard's Stable at G-street to discuss the situation with Brooke Stabler. John Surratt had here two bay horses to be taken care of—to be fed and watered. Was it to convince himself that John Surratt had indeed left town?