In addition, in the days before the assassination, Booth gave her a package that contained binoculars and another that contained guns. Surratt delivered these packages to her Maryland boarding house and instructed John Lloyd to prepare the "shooting irons" to be picked up.
Mary probably knew her son was a spy, but to what extent she knew of either the plan to kidnap President Lincoln, or assassinate him, remains unclear. Additionally, we know that Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt, all stayed at or visited Surratt's boardinghouse in the days and weeks before the assassination. Finally, we know that Surratt lied to investigators about knowing Lewis Powell, who showed up at her boardinghouse following the assassination while she was being interrogated by investigators.
She also told the investigators that her son had been in Canada for two weeks, as he was a focal point of the investigation. Despite her efforts to lie to protect John, he would fail to repay the favor and instead fled to Canada in an attempt to avoid capture. For this, he was labeled a coward for the rest of his life.
He would eventually be captured, but avoided jail time. Circumstantial evidence began to mount against Mary, although no "smoking gun" would ever emerge. She was arrested and her trial began on May 9th. Surratt, Herold, Powell, Atzerodt, Dr. Samuel Mudd, and four others, were tried together in a military court. Surratt was charged with aiding, abetting, concealing, counseling, and harboring the co-defendants. The testimony of John Lloyd, who revealed that Mary told him to have "shooting irons" ready at the boarding house for Booth was particularly damaging to Mary.
The testimony of boarder Louis Weichman, who claimed to have overheard Mary's son having conversations with Booth, Powell, and Atzerodt, many times in the four and a half months before the assassination was also very damaging.
Weichman revealed the connections between the Surratt family and the Confederate spy network of Maryland. Despite the unreliable witnesses that testified against Mary, she was found guilty on all but two charges and sentenced to death. Five of the nine judges in the case petitioned President Andrew Johnson for Mary's sentence to be commuted to life in prison because of her age and because she was a woman, but Johnson either never saw the petition or refused to sign it.
Lewis Powell, who was also sentenced to death, swore that she was completely innocent before his death, although George Atzerodt implicated her further before his death. This activity can be copied directly into your Google Classroom, where you can use it for practice, as an assessment, or, to collect data.
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After the execution, public outcry claimed Surratt was an innocent victim. Tribune editors disagreed and ran an editorial admonishing critics for trying to make her a martyr. It pointed to the compelling evidence against Surratt and lamented that her son, the other part of what it dubbed an "ill-omened pair," was still missing. Her son, Tribune editors hoped, would soon be captured and tried: "One of them has been hanged, and the other will be hanged when he gets his desserts.
In the following decades, emotions surrounding Lincoln's assassination cooled, and historians have reconsidered Surratt's guilt. For a time, it was accepted that Surratt was a tragic victim who happened to own the boardinghouse where the accomplices convened. The case influenced the justice system. Capital punishment against women plummeted in the decades following Surratt's execution. Historians continue to argue Surratt's involvement, and some now go even further by suggesting that Surratt wasn't just an accomplice, but that she was the mastermind.
Skip to content. Mary Surratt is seen here between circa and circa Latest Commentary. The execution was delayed until the afternoon, and soldiers were stationed on every block between the White House and Fort McNair, the execution site, to relay the expected pardon. But the order never came. A hooded figure in black, bound at the hands and feet as Surratt had been at the time of her execution, has allegedly been seen moving about. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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