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Surratt, Mary Eugenia

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Surratt, Mary Eugenia (1817-1865)

US alleged assassination conspirators. John Wilkes Booth allegedly plotted the assassination of President Lincoln at her boarding house in Washington, DC; her young son John Harrison, Jr (1844-1916), a one-time message runner for the Confederacy, was alleged to have been involved. John escaped to Canada but his mother was arrested, tried, and hanged in 1865, despite protesting her innocence. John returned to the USA and was acquitted by a civil court in 1867.


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