Exhumation of Conspirators

[RJNorton]

NOTE: If I remember correctly, several months ago, we discussed a conversation that Johnson had with a gentleman near the end of his life, and his reply regarding Mrs. Surratt was a tad different.

Yes - it was in Bill B.'s post here.

"Johnson said: "The execution of Mrs. Surrat [sic] was a crime of passion without justice or reason. She knew no more about the intentions of Boothe [sic]and his associates than any other person who chanced to know Booth or Asterot [sic]. They had simply boarded, as others had done, at her boarding house. She was entitled to a tral [sic] in open court and the record of the trial preserved. But her executioners knew the records would condemn them if kept till passion had subsided and they were destroyed."