Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy: Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission, and a Review of the Trial of John H. SurrattHarris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey)
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Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy: Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission, and a Review of the Trial of John H. Surratt
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination; Surratt, John H. (John Harrison), 1844-1916
And being so combined, confederated and conspiring together in
the prosecution of said unlawful and traitorous conspiracy, on
the night of the 14th day of April, A.D. 1865, at the hour of
about ten o'clock and fifteen minutes P.M., at Ford's Theatre
on Tenth Street, in the City of Washington, and within the
military department and military lines aforesaid, John Wilkes
Booth, one of the conspirators aforesaid, in pursuance of
said unlawful and traitorous conspiracy, did then and there
unlawfully, maliciously, and traitorously, and with intent to
kill and murder the said Abraham Lincoln, discharge a pistol
then held in the hands of him, the said John Wilkes Booth, the
same being then loaded with powder and a leaden ball, against
and upon the left and posterior side of the head of the said
Abraham Lincoln; and did thereby then and there inflict upon
him, the said Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United
States and Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy thereof,
a mortal wound whereof afterwards, to wit, on the 15th day
of April, A.D. 1865, at Washington City aforesaid, the said
Abraham Lincoln died; and thereby, then and there, and in
pursuance of said conspiracy, the said defendants, and the
said John Wilkes Booth and John H. Surratt did, unlawfully,
traitorously and maliciously, and with intent to aid the
rebellion as aforesaid, kill and murder the said Abraham
Lincoln, President of the United States, as aforesaid. And in
further prosecution of the unlawful, and traitorous conspiracy
aforesaid, and of the murderous and traitorous intent of said
conspiracy, the said Edward Spangler, on the said 14th day
of April, A.D. 1865, at about the same hour of that day as
aforesaid, within the said military department and military
lines aforesaid, did aid and assist the said John Wilkes Booth
to obtain entrance to the box in the said theatre, in which
said Abraham Lincoln was sitting at the time he was assaulted
and shot as aforesaid by John Wilkes Booth; and also did, then
and there, aid said Booth in barring and obstructing the door
of the box of said theatre, so as to hinder and prevent any
assistance to, or rescue of, the said Abraham Lincoln against
the murderous assault of the said John Wilkes Booth; and did
aid and abet him in making his escape after the said Abraham
Lincoln had been murdered in manner aforesaid.
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