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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (April 13, 1844 – April 21, 1916) was an American Confederate spy who was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; he was also suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.
John H. Surratt Jr. (seen here in 1868) was a Confederate courier. John Surratt collapsed suddenly and died on either August 25 [9] [62] or August 26 [63] [64] in 1862 (sources differ as to the date). The cause of death was a stroke. [45] [62] [65] The Surratt family affairs were in serious financial difficulties. [63]
The seven-week trial included the testimony of 366 witnesses. All of the defendants were found guilty on June 30. Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt were sentenced to death by hanging; Samuel Mudd, Samuel Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlen were sentenced to life in prison. [98] Edmund Spangler was sentenced to six years.
Powell arrived at the boarding house run by Mary Surratt, mother of co-conspirator John Surratt, three days later while the police were there conducting a search, and was arrested. Powell, Mary Surratt, Herold, and George Atzerodt were sentenced to death by a military tribunal, and executed at the Washington Arsenal.
The cause of death was hanging, using his boxers, according to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to observations. The guard reportedly failed to check on Moore for an hour and seven minutes.
On August 6, Judge Arthur J. Tuttle sentenced Stephan to death by hanging. [16] He was the first man convicted and sentenced to death on a federal treason charge since the Civil War. His sentence was later commuted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to life in prison. [17]
A 2024 Ipsos survey found that 81 per cent of Americans think the US is more divided than united. The interior of the Wok and Roll restaurant that used to be the Mary Surratt boardinghouse ...
A former Kansas prison inmate who made national headlines after he escaped the Lansing Correctional Facility in a dog crate died in an Arizona prison Sunday.. Nearly two decades ago on Feb. 12 ...