Accomplice in The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Kept the H Street boarding house where the conspirators met; convicted on testimony that she had told a tenant to have guns ready for Booth. The first woman executed by the US federal government. Birth year given as 1820 or 1823 in different sources.
1865 · Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. · Executed
Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators. Read the case.
Dated events
Mary Surratt is arrested at her boarding house; Powell arrives during the search and is detained.
Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are hanged at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary.
John Surratt, captured in Egypt the previous year, is tried by a civilian jury, which fails to agree; he is never retried.