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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 Michael Weatherly as George Atzerodt, a conspirator; Chris Bauer as Major Smith, a witness for the prosecution; David Andrews as Father Walter, a Roman Catholic priest attending on Mrs. Surratt; James Kirk Sparks as Edman Spangler, one of those charged with conspiracy; John Curran as Major General Albion P. Howe, a member of the military ...
Surratt was the mother of John Surratt, who was later tried in the conspiracy, but was not convicted. Born in Maryland in the 1820s, Surratt converted to Catholicism at a young age and remained a practicing Catholic for the rest of her life. She wed John Harrison Surratt in 1840 and had three children with him.
Surratt was brought back to the United States and went on trial for murder on June 10, 1867. The jury heard 80 witnesses for the government and 90 witnesses for the defense. The trial ended August 10 with the jury deadlocked (4 votes = guilty; 8 votes = not guilty). Eventually, Surratt was freed in the summer of 1868.
Samuel Mudd, the doctor who treated Booth's broken leg on the night Lincoln was killed, and claimed to have no knowledge of the conspiracy, was linked by Weichmann's testimony to the events for which he was tried and found guilty as well. Augustus Howell, a blockade runner who worked with John Surratt, claimed during the trial that Weichmann ...
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Walter Triplett Jr. is a former bouncer convicted of killing Michael Corrado during a bar fight in 2009. He grew up in Cleveland with his twin sister, Waltonya Triplett, and their two older siblings.
He and seven others were charged in conspiring to assassinate Lincoln and three other high level government officials. Spangler was the only one found not guilty of the conspiracy charge. Even so, he was found guilty of helping Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, escape and sentenced to six years of hard labor. [2]