Could John Have Spared Mary

[Craig Hipkins]

Laurie,
That is hard to say, but I believe that John would have taken some of the heat off of his mother. Besides Booth, John Surratt was the one conspirator that the government seemed to have wanted more than anyone else. Something tells me that Mary still would have been punished for her involvement, but she might have been spared the hangman's noose.

Craig