Questions Regarding Mary Surratt

[Gene C]

There were lots of people who aided and abetted Booth, but regarding the men hung, all of them had detailed knowledge of the assassination attempt on Lincoln's life that night, and could have prevented it. This seems to me to be the defining issue as to who was sentenced to prison, and who was hung.

Evidently the authorities believed they had the evidence and proof to put Mrs Surratt in that last category.