The conspirators and their roles are listed below:. Born Mary Elizabeth Jenkins in , was from Maryland. She married John Harrison Surratt when she was 17, and together, they bought massive amounts of land near Washington.
Together, she and her husband had three children: Isaac, Anna, and John, Jr. She rented part of her property — a tavern that her husband had built — to a man named John Lloyd, who was a retired police officer. John, Jr, her eldest son, had become familiar with a man named John Wilkes Booth during his time as a Confederate spy. Mary Surratt became involved with the shooting of Abraham Lincoln through these men. For her involvement, Mary Surratt was sentenced to death , she was the first woman to be executed by the United States Government.
Given the nickname Doc as a child for his love of nursing animals, Lewis Powell was described as an introverted youth. Powel was assigned to assassinate Secretary of State Seward. Seward was at home sick in bed the night of the assassination. Powell gained entry to the home claiming to have medicine for Seward. They got into a scuffle when Powell refused to hand over the medicine.
Powell beat Franklin so badly that he was in a coma for sixty days. He was pulled off the Secretary by the body guard and two other members of the household. He managed to escape from the house and hid in a cemetery overnight.
Powell attempted suicide while waiting for a verdict. He was convicted and hanged on July 7, Powell was introduced to Booth through John Surrat in January , an became an important part of Booth's plan to kidnap President Lincoln. He used the aliases "Paine" or "Payne" so that his family would not find out about his role in the kidnap or murder if he was killed in the attempts.
Tall and strong, he was recruited to bring the muscle for the kidnapping. Powell entered the Secretary's home in Lafayette Square and severely injured Seward and others in the house. He was tried and convicted, and executed by hanging on July 7, His remains were moved from place to place, and the only remains to survive, his skull, was eventually interred in the family plot at Geneva Cemetery in Geneva, Florida. Spangler renewed their friendship while both were working at Ford's.
Booth asked Apngler to hold his horse in the back alley behind Ford's the night of the assassination, and Spangler turned that duty over to young "Peanut John" Burrows.
It is unlikely that Spangler knew anything about Booth's plots or intent. Even so, he was found guilty of helping Lincoln's assassin escape and was sentenced to six years of hard labor at Fort Jefferson Prison in the Dry Tortugas, Florida. Spangler was befriended by Dr. Mudd in prison, and when both were pardoned by President Johnson in , he moved to Maryland and did odd jobs around the Mudd farm until his death in He is buried In St.
Peter's Cemetery in Waldorf, Maryland. Photo by Matthew Brady taken in He was a Confederate spy with a college education who ran mail and correspondence across Union lines, and worked with Confederate Secret Service agents in Canada.
John took part in the failed abduction atempt in March , but was in Elmira New York at the time of the assassination. He fled to Canada, then England, when he heard news of the crime. He lived as a fugitive for several years, serving with the Papal Guards for the Vatican until he was recognized and apprehended in Egypt in Extradited back to the United States, he was tried by a civilian court in The case resulted in a hung jury and Surratt was set free and never tried again.
John Surratt died in , the last surviving Lincoln conspirator. Photo of Mrs. Surratt, circa s. Earlier on the day of the assassination, she rode down to the tavern and gave Lloyd a package that Booth had given her earlier that morning. Due mainly to the testimony of Lloyd, she received the death sentence for conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
Despite five of the judges at the trial asking that she be granted clemency by President Johnson because of her age and sex, she was put to death by hanging on July 7, She was the first woman executed by the federal government in the United States.
White cloth was used to bind their arms to their sides, and their ankles and thighs together. Close-up: A white bag was placed over the head of each prisoner after the noose was put in place.
Shortly after the afternoon of July 7, , the four condemned conspirators were forced to climb the hastily built gallows that they had heard being tested the night before from their prison cells. More than 1, people—including government officials, members of the U. In fact, many in attendance thought that Surratt would be saved from the gallows at the last minute.
It was not to be. The conspirators stood on the drop for about 10 seconds, and then Captain Rath clapped his hands. Four soldiers knocked out the supports holding the drops in place, and the condemned fell. Close-up: The bodies continued to hang and swing for another 25 minutes before they were cut down.
After the last rites and shortly after PM, the trap door was opened and all four fell. Within minutes, they were all dead. The scaffold in use and the crowd in the yard seen from the roof of the Washington Arsenal.
Over the years, critics have attacked the verdicts, sentences, and procedures of the Military Commission. These critics have called the sentences unduly harsh and criticized the rule allowing the death penalty to be imposed with a two-thirds vote of Commission members. The hanging of Mary Surratt, the first woman ever executed by the United States, has been a particular focus of criticism. Any factual error or typo?
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