Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-07-06
THE CONSPIRACY.
THE FINDINGS OF THE COURT.
The Sentences Approved by the President
Mrs. Surratt, Payne, HerOld snd Atze.
rOdt to be HungH
The Sentence to be Executed TO.MOr.
FOWL
Mudd, Arnold and O'LaHghlin to bf
Imprisoned for Life!
Spangler to be Imprisoned for Six
Years!

PR8u6AV1 w w AAAPl AVA VIA
Years!
The following are the official orders ap-
proving the finding and sentence in the cases
of the prisoners tried before the court Of which
Major General Hunter was the president:
Var Department. Adjatant Generals 0tfce,l
Washington, July s, 1866 5
TO Major General W. s. Hancock, U. S; Volan-
teers, Commanding Middle Military Division,
Washington, ID. C..
Whereas, by the Military Commission ap-
pointed in paragraph t. special orders, No. 2l1,
dated War Department, Adjutant Generals
Once, Washington, May 6, 1865. and of which
Major General David Hunter, u S. Volun-
teers, is President, the following named per-
cons were tried and after mature consider
alton of the evidence adduced in their cases,
were found and sentenced as hereinafter stated,
As follows:
1st.-DAvIp Z. HERoLD.
Finding:-Of the specification Guilty. except
combining, confederating and conspiring with
Edward Spangier, as to which part thereof, Not
Guilty. OF the charge Guilty, except the
words of the charge that he combined, con-
Federated and conspired with Edward Spang-
Ter, as TO which part Of said charge, Not Guilty.
Sentence:-And the omission does there
fore sentence him, the said David f. Herold, to
be hanged by the neck until he be dead, at such
time and place the President OF the United
States shall direct, two-thirds of the members
Of the Commission concurring therein.
2d.-GEoRaE A. ATzERoDT
Finding:-Of the specification Guilty, except
combining, confederating and conspiring with
Edward Spangler of this Not Guilty. Of the
charge Guilty, except combining, confederating
and conspiring with Edward Spangler; OF tins
Not Guilty.
Sentence:-And the Commission does there
fore sentence him, the said George A. Atze-
rodt, to be hung by the neck until he be dead
at such time and place as the President of the
United States shall direct, two-thirds of the
members ofthe Commission concurring therein.
. 3d.-LEwIs PAYNE.
Finding-Of the specification Guilty, except
combining, confederating, and conspiring with
Edward Spangler of this Not Guilty.
OF the charge Guilty, except combining, con-
decorating and conspiring with Edward Spang-
Ter; of this Not Guilty
Sentence:-And the Commission does, there.
fore, sentence him, the said Lewis Payne, to be
hung by the neck until he be dead, at such time
and place as the President of the United States
shall direct, two-thirds of the members of the
Commission coneurrinR therein
4TH.-MAEY +. SCRRATT.
Finding:-Of the specification Guilty, except
as to receiving, entertaining, harboring, and
eoncealing Samuel Arnold and Michael
O'Laughlin, and except as to combining, con-
federating, and conspiring with Edward
4Spangler; of this Not Guilty.
OF the charge Guilty, except as to com.
bining, confederating and conspiring with
Edward Spangler; of this Not Guilty.
Sentence:-And the Commission does there
fore sentence her, the said Mary e. Surratt, to
be hung by the neck until she be dead at such
time and place as the President of the United
Statet shall direct, two-thirds of the members
Of the Commission concurring therein.
And whereas, the President Of the United
States has approved the foregoing sentences in
the following order, to wit: 81
go EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 5th, 1865.
The foregoing sentences in the cases of David :
Z. Herold, a. A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne,
~, \, 4, Mary E. Surratt, 4,
are hereby approved, and it is ordered that the
sentences in the cases Of David E. Herold, G..
"A. AfzerQdt, Lewis Payne, and Mary e. Sur
ratt be carried into execution by the proper
military authority, under the direction Of the
Secretary Of War, on the eth day of July, 1865,
between the hours of ten O'Clock q. M. and two
O'Clock p. m. of that day \
ANDREW JOHNSON, President.
Therefore you are hereby commanded to cause
the foregoing sentences in the cases of David E.
Herold, @. A. Atzerodt, Lew is Payne and Mary
E. Surratt to be duly executed in accordance
with the Presidents order.
BY command of the President of the United
States. Z. D. TOWNSEND,
z. Assistant Adjutant General.
In the remaining cases the findings and sem
fences are as follows
MICHAEL O'LAUGHLIN.
Finding :-Of the specification Guilty, except
the words thereof as follows :-"And in the fur
thef prosecution of the conspiracy aforesaid
and Of its murderous and reasonable purposes
aforesaid in the nights of the 18th and 14th of
April, A. ID. 1865, at Washington city, and
within the military department and military
lines aforesaid, the said Michael O'Laughiip
did, then and there lie in wait for Ulysses S.
Grant, then Lieutenant General and Comman-
der OF the Armies of the United States, with
intent then and there to kill and murder the
said Ulysses s. Grant"
OF said words Not Guilty; and except com.
bining, confederating and conspiring with Ed
ward Spangler, Of this Not Guilty. " 4
OF the charge Guilty, except combining, con-
decorating and conspiring with Edward Spang
Ter; OF this Not Guilty. 81
And the Commission do therefore sentence
him, the said Michael O'Laughlin, to be i'm
prisoned ut hard labor for life at such peniten
fiary as the President of the United States
shall designate. H eEi
EDWARD SPANGLER.
= Finding:-Of the specification Not Guilty.
except as TO the words, THE said Edward
Epangler, on said 14th day of April, A. d. 1865,
at about the same hour of that day as afore-
said. within the military department and the
military lines aforesaid did aid and abet him
.fmeaning John Wilkes Booth) in making his
escape after the said Abraham Lincoln had
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