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I am trying to determine if the attorneys for Mary Surratt were present at the execution. The reference sources I have do not address the issue. Barry Cauchon tells me that only one newspaper, the Constitutional Union of July 7 reported that they entered the prison yard ahead of Mary Surratt. To his knowledge, no other news report had them at the scene. He also said the Evening Star reported them as leaving Mary in the morning. Thus he believes they were not present at the execution. I, too, suspect this to be the case.