implicating Booth, Atzerodt, O’Laughlin and Surratt. According to Horner’s statement, Arnold said that the part assigned to himself in the kidnapping was to throw the President out of the theater box [sic] after the lights had been turned out, so that the rest could carry him off in ...
He stopped before one of the windows facing south and stared moodily at the Belasco Theater. That playhouse had surely never staged a more complicated mystery than the one he had set himself to unravel. What consolation could he offer Helen? If he encouraged her belief in his theory that Jim...
During Gifford’s testimony, he was asked to look at a plan of the theater. Gifford stated that while the drawing had a few minor mistakes, it was substantially correct. This plan of Ford’s Theatre was entered into evidence asExhibit 48. Martha E. Murray, the proprietor of the Herndon ...
when the theater was closed down, in Baltimore. In Baltimore, Spangler was a fan of crabbing and fishing. Ford was presented with Exhibit 47, the coil of rope found in Spangler’s valise, and asked if it were the type of rope one might use for crabbing. Ford...