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Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators

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Uploaded by on Jul 20, 2007

A sequence constructed from still photos of the execution by hanging of the Lincoln conspirators.

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  • John Surratt:

  • He was first captured in Vatican Italy but escaped Velletri by jumping over a cliff, landing in a prison waste heap, they say..He was a papal Zouave when an 'old friend' recognized him.He sailed to Egypt finally caught arriving in Alexandria.

    Like Booth the great actor, he was a master of disguise.He died 1916 aged 72.His mother Mary was a originally a Presbytarian but he was a Catholic & and studied at St. Charles' College with Louis Weichman.David Herold also attended this college i believe.

  • @Baldgol4 - The jury deadlocked, he wasn't found not guilty. He returned here because he was arrested in Egypt and brought back forcefully.

  • sad...

  • Correction: Harry was in custody on $1000 bail and not put in prison.

  • It's a question of Law for any modern civilisation. Did they exceed it more than was necessary at the end of the Civil War?

  • Barbaric then and barbaric now! Civilized societies do not execute people!!

  • Yes John Surratt said they planned to kidnap. Lincoln was to attend a celebrity concert for the soldiers at Seventh Street hospital .They went to kidnap Lincoln in his carriage but Salmon Chase was there only, so they reneged. Idea was to capture Lincoln and force an exchange of prisoners who were dying in their thousands of maltreatment, hunger and disease. Did not.Lewis Weichman inform his boss Captain Gleason 6 weeks before 14th April in Feb.at the Capitol Prison where he worked as a clerk?

  • They were convicted before a military tribunal and denied their constitutional right to have a civil trial. The U. S. Supremee Court ruled a year later that they should not have been tried in a military tribunal. Her son John later returned to the United States, was tried in a civil court and found not guilty although he was certainly involved in the plot to kidnap Lincoln.

  • Questions Fifty Eight

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