NEW YORK HERALD, MAY 12, 1865 EDITION; LINCOLN ASSASSINATION

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Page 1 – Rebel ships Stonewall and Shenandoah still at large after the surrenders.

Page 4 – Confederate General Richard Taylor surrenders his army.

Page 5 – The Plot – Trial of the Assassins begins, but reporters are not admitted to the closed proceedings.

Listing of Counsels for the Assassins.

Appearances of Some of the Conspirators Before the court – descriptions of:

Mrs. Surratt –‘stout, buxom dame with gray hair and clear, cold grey eyes which reveal a crafty, implacable spirit”

Payne ‘is but an animal. Ferocious, brutal and evidently possessing little mind or heart”

Harold ‘is not the confiding boy that his relatives here would represent”

Atzerrott – is  swarthy sort of person of Teutonic descent who was hired to strike but whose heart failed him’

The Grave of the Assassin Booth

The Canadian Conspirators and Defenses

Jefferson Davis may be headed to Mexico

Mrs. Lincoln now nearly recovered from her grief.   [km]

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