The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-06-02

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pearance-who would be singled out of ;
crowd for any special development of fea
ture or eccentricity of expression. Atze.
rott is an admirable type of the lower class
OF Germans-short in stature, yellow in
complexion and hair, meagerly supplied
with beard, having light-blue eyes, high
cheek bones, and neck so short and eye
brows so light that both are hardly per
ceptible, He has in his present plig ght ra-
ther a hang-dog look, is shabbily dressed,
and has the general appearance of having
spent much of the thirty years of his life
in indoor mechanical pursuits.
Michael O'Laughlin, who is accused of
having "lain in watt for General Grant,
but against whom so far the testimony is
very slight, only proving that he ha. been
intimate with Booth, is next in line. He
has pallid complexion, not unlike that
of Booth himself, and is on the whole far
from an ill-looking man. He has very
black, waving hair, uneasy eyes, a heavy
moustache and scanty imperial, and is
about thirty years old. He has general
air OF being greatly worn down by con-
tinement and the anxiety inseparable from
his position.
Spangler, the carpenter of the theatre.
Is another whom the testimony has not
borne very heavily on thus far. Never
theless, he Is the most despondent in ap-
pearance OF the seven, and has an expires
sion OF being frig ghtened nearly out of his
wits at the prospect before him. He is a
mlddle-ased man of light complexion, fea-
lures coarsened by long, hard drinking,
and about weeks growth of brown
beard
DIR. Mudd looks decidedly out of place
and In uncongenial company. A mild
and lnotfenslve man in appearance, with
high, bald forehead, thin, yellow hair,
small, blue eyes, red moustache and full
beard, and a Sort of faded-out, horid COM
plexion, with il general air of retirement
and timidity, his countenance would 20 far
toward acquitting him OF very deep par
tlcipatlon i'll the conspiracy
sam. Arnold, who thought he had re-
tired from the scheme in time to save his
neck, has the advantage of a scat next the
widow He Is an exceedingly ordinary
looking young man, with Il frank. open.
and not unprepossessing comtenance
We have reached the end of the line.
but there is still one more of the conspira-
tors arraigncd in the charges. The sex
which was no bar 10 her earnest partici-
patton in the darkest crime which stains
the page of history, entities her to a place
more comfortable than that accorded TO
her fellow-criminals In an armchair
Just outside the dock. with no sentry to
her, sits Mrs Mary Surratt. |
the bereaved widow. the mother of a |
youthful family, the Catholic Devotec. the
prosalc clearinghouse keeper, whom the !
evidence already brands as one of the most
devoted and one of the most guilty of the !
band of murderers. She is
dressed in deep black, even to wearing
black mlttens She is in street costume. |
and thick veil covers her face, which
she still more strives to hide by holding
before it her hand and hand
kerchiet: In spite of these obstacles. we
can still sec that she is a well-preServed
woman of fifty, with regular and rather
elegant features, and flush still lingering
on her check. She is not, as has been re-
presented, an unusually large woman, but
is rather graceful in figure and movement.
Her hands are at liberty, but her feet. like
those of the other prisoners, are fastened
together by a short chain about tile ankles.