Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-07-13
Exc ECUTlON
OF THE
COWSPIRATORS.

Washington, having concluded its investi-
cations, the findings were approved by the
President as follows: DAVID f. HERoLD,
GEORGE A. ATzERopr, LEWIS PAYNE (PowELL)
and Mrs MARY +. SURRATT, guilty of conspi-
ring to assassinate President LINCOLN, Sec
retary SEWARD and other heads of the Coy
ernment, and sentenced to be hanged there
for on Friday, July I. 7.
OF the others implicated in the same
conspiracy, or in the execution of some
part Of it, MICHAEL OLAUGHLIN, SAMUEL AR
Non. and DR.. SAMUEL A. MUDD are to be con-
fined IN the Pcnitentiary at Albany for life,
and EDWARD SPANGLER for six years
In the case of Mrs SURRATr a writ of
nabeas corpus was issued by Judge WYLE
of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, and served upon Gen HANCOCK,
at eight O'clock III the morning. The Pres
idept promptly declared that the writ had
heretofore been suspended and directed the
execution of the prisoners to proceed.
At an early hour guards were placed all
around the Arsenal grounds to prevent the
intrusion of persons to the scene of eXecu-
ton, none being admitted excepting those
previously supplied with tickets by Major
General HANCOCK.
THE FRIENDS AND RELATIVES OF THE PRISONERS.
About a quarter of twelve the friends and
relatives of the prisoners began to arrive,
and were admitted to the cell of the con
demned At this time came Miss Anna
| - I.,r aud
was Immediately shown to the cell of her
mother As she entered and followed her
conductor through the hall into the cOrri-
dor beyond her bearing was quite firm,
and her manner and step almost confident
i'll the expression, which gave rise to an
; opinion, quite generally concurred in, that
the interview she had with Gen. Hancock
this morning, between eight and nine
O'Clock, and, subsequently attempted to
bring about with the President, had finally
been crowned with success and her pcti-
tions for clemency and a respite for her
mother granted. Next to Miss Surratt
came the sister of Harold, followed by a
sister of Atzerott, all of whom gained i'm
mediate access to the prisoners. Scarcely
half an hour had elapsed before they all is
sued, nearly swooning with anguish, from
| tllc lllltI uUOE, anu were COIuuClcu " dp-
artments upon the second floor, where re-
storatives were administered. All of these
heart-broken women were attired in deep
black, with heavy wells of serge screening
their faces from the multitude; but their
sobs and tottering steps excited the SYM
pathies of all, and many eyes were bedim-
= med as the mOurnful cOrtege passed be-
yond sight or hearing.
THE PROCESSION To THE GALLows.
At exactly one O'Clock the heavy door
opening from the northwestern hall of the
prison building into the courtyard opened,
and Mary Z. Surratt, leaning upon two
gentleman, issued forth, followed by Faith
ers Wigct and Walter, the latter of whom
carried a small cross with all ctfigy Of the
Saviour thereon, and also book of prayer.
She looked very pale; her limbs seemed to
fail her, and it required no small cXertion
on the part of the gentleman alluded to to
lead her as far as the scatfold steps. Step
by step she asccndcd, her hands manaclcd
behind her, every eye united on her ROW
: shrunken checks Her face betrayed more
| Of horror than of physical fear; her upper
lip, as sometimes seen in the newly dead,
curled upwards from the now incomplete
teeth, with added greatly to the ghastlness
OF ntG cNpGtSSlOI. one Sat Oll IL Clldu
placed at the northwestern corner Of the
scaffold, and Immediately the reverend gen
tleman waiting upon her leaned forward,
applying the cruciix to her ashen lip, and
pouring into her ear the words of comfort
expected to sooth to resignation the rebel
lious human heart that sets itself against
the decree Of mortality upon the scaffold,
the field or the home bed.
, ATzERoTT FOLLOWED NEXT,
shackled hand and foot and presenting to
: the spectator a face so full of fear, of woe,
r of horror and of supplication, that for mere
relief they turned from him to rest upon the
regal face of Payne Atzerott was atten-
ded to and up the steps of the scaffold by
: the Rev Mr. Butler, and he too was hidden
Y to be seated on chair placed at the south
crn end of the grim white structure.
NEXT CAME PAYNE,
manaced like Atzerott, dressed only in the
navy pants and cDllarless shirt he wore du-
ring the long trial SO instructive is the
admiration which men feel for any man who
in the last hour meets unmoved the king of
terrors, that this youth with the bull neck
and chose shaven crown, short face and
quiet blue eye, drew more sympathy than
the fears of thousand AtZerOtts could ev-
er evoke. On he Went to the steps: side
, by side with the minister of his choice, Mr.
Gillett. Checked in his gait but seeming
ly unembarrassed, he reached the platform
and sat down near to Mrs Surratt and
there he remained gazing, as he used to do
: in the court room, through the bars at the
white tleecy clouds that shifted before the
intense rays of a sun that gilded with all
the pamp of a summer noon one of the most
solemn scenes ever exhibited in this land,
so free hitherto from such crimes Payne
1--WE prefer the more generally known name)
looked neither to the right nor to the left,
but straight forward and upwards. 1t was
evident that to him the crowd were moth
ing, his own thoughts everything. His
face might be likened to that Of a builder
of castles in the air. Fear there was none,
; no more than on the face of sleeping in
FAINT; braggadoica, or morbid vanitysthat so
often supplies courage, was not to be read
in the quiet, dreaming eye, where the old
wildness alone had fled, and as the sun
faced him as truly as he faced it, the pho
tographer whose instrument stood in win
dow of the western wall will hand down