Front Page – The Assassination – Trial of the Conspirators

-Arnold denies the jurisdiction of the court

-The Indictment of the Prisoners – Charges and Specifications

-The case of O’Laughlin – He was to Murder General Grant

-Interesting Description of the Conspirators

-Events on the Day of the Assassination

-Movements of the Assassins

Long article about possible yellow fever biological warfare attempted by the South

-In-depth description of the conspirators – “Payne is a villainous looking man, tall and of huge proportions, neck bare and like a bullock, face smoothly shaven, a shock of black hair over a low forehead, and fierce eyes with small cornea, around which the white is always disagreeably visible. “

-Transcript of all charges and specifications against each of the defendants

-Cross examination of Weichman by Mrs. Surratt’s attorney

-Examination of Lloyd, about the carbines left for Booth at the Surratt Farm.

Page 8 – The Assassination

-Transcript of testimony of about a dozen witnesses

-The night before the assassination O’Laughlin walked into the Secretary of War (Stanton) house where General Grant was staying.

-False history of Payne, at this point no one knew he had been a Confederate soldier.

-Letter from Boston Corbett detailing how he shot Booth

-Confederate General Dick Taylor surrenders his army in Alabama, Florida, East Louisiana.  [KM]

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