Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-11-11
'waAn ABOUT mrs. srlRRATr..

EpW many thousands sof people dc
yOn suppose. have in the past week
said, And what about Mrs. Surratt2a
Yes, what about her? Beyond the
TACT that she vas hanged by the gov
eminent of the United States of Amer.
lea, who knows? What was the avi-
dence before the court? Where lis. the
evidence that was before the court?
newspapers of the period published
! what was sadt be the evidence. or a
Eart of it? Who stood for it?
The records are easily obtainabIe. as
To what was done:
For maliciously, unlawfully. and
traitorously, and in aid of the existing
armed rebellion against the United
states OF America, on or before the
9th day of March, A. D.. 1866, and on
divers OTHER days between that day
land the 18th day of April, A. d. 1855,
comhlnlng, confederating, and con-
spring together with John H. Sur
raft, John Wilkes Booth, JEFFERSON
l1eNis, George N. Sanders, Beverly
Tucker, Jacob Thompson, William G.
Cleary, Clement GaCIay, George Har-
per, George Young
These We're at the time out of the
way, the second named being dead.
john Surratt was tried by a jury sew
era1 years later and eventually went
Tree because ceight of the jurors did
not believe he was guilty. 1t was said
by the hangmans a long time after
ward If he had ,been tried by a mil
1tary court he would have been
hanged" And he was quite right.
The others 1afterward went into court
and proved that they were victims of a
labyrinth of plain and fancy perjury
on the part of secret agents of the
goyernment-the record whereof ia
plain To this day.
others unknown to kill and MUIR
der !. Abraham Lincoln
Andrew johnson William
Il. Seward and Ulysses S..
Grant and in pursuance Of
and in prosecuting said malicious, I'M
lawful, and straitornus conspiracy
aforesaid, and in aid of said rebellion
afterwards, ito wit, OF the 18th day
OF April with said john
Wilkes Booth and John III. Surratt
mnEdering the said Abraham
tent TO kill and murder, the said Viii
liam H. Seward =. land lying
III wait with intent to kill and murder
the said Andrew johnson and
the said Ulysses s. Grant"
Snch.is the skeleton of Charge /. be-.
fore a military commission convened
July 5, Maj-Gen. David Hunter, Uni
ted States volunteers, president: to try
David E.. Herold, q. a. Atzerodt, Lewis
Payne, Mary E.. Surratt, Michael
EOLaughlin, Edward .Spanglers Samuel,
Arnold and Samuel IA. -Mudd. +
Specification /. set forth, as to Mary,
e. Surratt:
And in further prosecution of the
said conspiracy Mary E. Surratt dill
F.. on or before the 9Th day of!
March and on divers Others
days and times between that day and
the 10th day of April receive
entertain haThor and conceal, aid and
assist. the said john Wilkes Boot.l
(and the ~3thers9. and their confeder-I
ates, with knowhBe of the murderousI
and t~raitorous conspiracy aforesaid,
and tb intent to aid dabet, and assist
them in the execution thereof and iI
escaping from justice after the murdef
of the said Abraham Lincoln -
And the finding and s7entenoe:
In the ease Of Mary Il. Snrratt, the
commission, having matuTely consid-
cred the evidence addueed. finds the
accused as follows:
OF the specifications, Guilty, ex-
cept as to receiving entertaining,
-marbOring, and coneealinE Samuel
Arnold and Hichael 0IOtlghEin, ant
except as to combining eOnfederating,
and conspfring with Edward &pangler1
of this, not guilty"
"Of the charge Guilty, except as toll
combining, eunfederating, amid GOnsptr-
ing with Edward Spangler: OF this, not,
guilty"
cAnd the commission does therefore,
sentence her To be hung by
the neck untM she is dead att such
time and Place as the President NftheI
United States shall direct; t~E0+fhfrds
OF the members of the commission
ccncurring therein /
nArnold, Waads Spangler and
OIlughlin were sentenced to the Al
pany penitentia ry, but this a chang
.edc and they were consigned to rot In
the military prison at Dry TortugaE
They4were afterwards pardoned, foil
the reason, name9yI tibet they were
innOcent-apd were lst1a
But any who crossed the patn
OF Beethcor his \confedeEates from the
deat4to-thaf of Booth was:m fh1ck if he
escaped the net. It WAS "a time of
yIarh; tthe-more hanged. the-Hore i'm
DE1soned theebetter.
Spangler was sent up for life He
held Booths horse-a poor, esfHlple
hanger on he was; glad to DO any sell
vice for the great actor, brt knowing
nothing of his plot. And DR.. Mudd--
be was sent up for life; a country
practitioner, called upon by a stranger
his gate to give mercifulE mfnistra-
ions OF his pEofessten. He,set BeOth's
broken leg. His innocence is a mat I
,er of record. =
The condemned quartet were-by Or Z
ier of President johnson hanged be- $
.Ween 10 a. ma and q p, m. July Tia