What Was The Role of David Herold

[Susan Higginbotham]

In his April 27, 1865, statement, Herold said that he had had lived "eleven months exactly" with J. S. Ward, a druggist in Washington, and had left him in the early fall of 1864 because it was partridge season. He said that he had been a clerk with William S. Thompson, another druggist, two years before the spring of 1865.