Today in the Lincoln Conspiracy: July 6
At mid-day on July 6, 1865, Mary Surratt learned she would hang the next day. She erupted in wails of grief and sorrow. Two Catholic priests, Jacob Walter and B.F. Wiget, went to her cell and tried to comfort her. Anna Surratt also arrived, but her mother was inconsolable. Mrs. Surratt was also suffering from severe menstrual distress and she was doubled over in pain. The prison doctor prescribed wine and pain medication. Outside her cell, in the prison courtyard, soldiers tested the gallows from which she would hang. The priests and Anna remained at her side until the next morning.
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