Where was John Surratt on April 14, 1865 ?

[loetar44]

(04-07-2017 05:02 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(04-06-2017 03:27 PM)loetar44 Wrote:  The only reason that led me to suppose [Detective James] McDevitt was with me is that I was with him at the Theatre earlier that night. He [McDevitt] told me that [actress] Laura Keene had told him that it was Wilkes Booth who vaulted from the box the President occupied.

This is strange, IMO. There is an 1885 account by Richards in Tim Good's We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts. In this account Richards claims the officer with him at Ford's Theatre was Captain M. Reed. Richards says it was Reed's suggestion that the two men go into the theater. No mention at all of McDevitt.

Richards further wrote in the same letter:

"The more I study over this matter the more convinced I am that McDevitt was not with me the night of the murder but that he reported to me the next (Saturday) morning that he had visited that house the night previous and that he had seen you [Weichmann] at the house. [?] that you would call at my office that morning."