Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-07-08
Execution Of ,be CopsDirators.

WASHINGTON, July 7.--All the con-
demned conspirators sentenced to be
hanged to-day were executed.
On petition of Mary Il. Surratt through
her counsel. Messrs. Aiken and Clampitt,
Judge Wylie, of the Supreme Court of tliis
District, directed an issue of a writ of habeas
corpus to Gen. Hancock, commanding him
| to produce in court at 10 o'clock this morn
ing the body of Mary E. Surratt, with cause
and day of detention. The writ was then
served on Gen. Hancock at the Metropoli-
tan Hotel at O'clock this morning, by
United States Marshal Cooling. He i'm
mediately consulted with the Attorney
General and Secretary of War. AT 1890
the General had not obeyed the writ. This
fact was brought to the notice of the court
by her counsel, but the Judge said hefhad
not power to enforce the writ. 77g
Early to-day 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 Mrs.
Sarratt and Harold spent several hours
with them during the forenoon, and they
were also attended by their spiritual ad-
visers, as were also Payne and AtZerott.
A few minutes after o'clock the outer
prison door was opened, and Mrs. Surratt
a" r,iI;tor,, ~ ain9 w"9 ~ vue fin"d
Iytzorott a. unrroId ond pavro oocon,,,on;ad
a., ,r,,ord do I'D tha;u rosyno;;,,o ,,,;p;stars
~ tbs ooSnei 0 Font pISvn" soatS wece nrnviJad
nr U tho5 5ph s,n tho ,Iotforn, IN tha fpilo.,int,
order: Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Harold and
| AtZerott. The officers entrusted with the
execution, and the ministers, occupied in
| termediate positions.
Major General Hartsutf, who has been
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