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[BettyO]

(07-04-2012 05:45 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Thanks, Betty. Powell, Herold, Atzerodt and Mrs. Surratt were not told of their death sentences until right before they were executed. The others may have had some hope during the trial but I think Powell knew all along that he would be executed.

Right, Linda. He had previously told a guard that he wished that they would "hang him quick, that they were tracking him pretty close and that he was tired of coming into the court room every day."

Supposedly, the "boys" who were not hanged had heard the construction of the gallows and were pretty much in a panic as they knew what was going on - Spangler for one was pretty scared at what transpired and thought that he would be called for any day and hanged....