The deviations from the Charge and Specification, the Court had finally prescribed in the verdicts against O'Laughlin and Spangler, were not thought by the prosecutors to be of such importance as to warrant a softening of the sentence. But here the loyalty of some members of the Commission began to falter, and refuse to bear the strain. They had found O'Laughlin guilty of the "traitorous conspiracy," and Spangler guilty of aiding Booth to escape, and Arnold guilty in the same degree as Herold, Atzerodt and Payne, but in none of these cases could the attending advocates extort a two-thirds vote for death. In the case of Spangler, owing, it is said, to the impression made by General Ewing and the influence of General Wallace, they were compelled to allow a sentence of but six years imprisonment. And in the case of the two others--convicted co-conspirators with Booth and Davis though they were--these prosecuting officers had to rest satisfied with but life-long imprisonment. It was too evident that five members of the Commission had slipped the bloody rein. Three lives had they taken. Henceforth they would stop just this side the grave. At this point--when the Commission had sentenced to death three men and had just declined to sentence to death two more whom it had pronounced guilty of the same crime--at this point it was, that the sentence of Mary E. Surratt came up for determination. Now, the crimes of which Arnold had been found guilty were both in law and in fact the same of which she had been found guilty. Even the particular allegation in the Specification is the same in both cases, except some immaterial variance in the verbiage and in the names of co-conspirators.