HERE IS THE POPUP

HERE IS THE END OF THE POPUP

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY MRS. SURRATT’S ROOM?

TAKEN FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MILITARY COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
AND THE TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS

(DAVID E. HEROLD, MARY E. SURRATT, LEWIS PAYNE, EDWARD SPANGLER, SAMUEL A. MUDD, SAMUEL ARNOLD, MICHAEL O’LAUGHLIN, GEORGE A. ATZERODT) 

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY BENN PITMAN,
Recorder to the Commission
 
PUBLISHERS MOORE, WILSTACH & BALDWIN

1865

TESTIMONY OF MISS HONORA FITZPATRICK

For the Defense,

May 25, 1864

“I occupied the same room as Mrs. Surratt, and Miss Surratt slept in the same room for a time.”

“I boarded at the house of Mrs. Surratt, on H Street, from the 6th of October last till I was arrested.  I met the prisoner Payne at breakfast one morning, I think in March or April last. I have seen him there twice; the last time was in March. I know the prisoner, Atzerodt. I have seen him at Mrs. Surratt’s, but I do not know in what month. He only stayed there a short time; I think Mrs. Surratt sent him away. I occupied the same room as Mrs. Surratt, and Miss Surratt slept in the same room for a time. I do not remember whether the officers called Mrs. Surratt out to see Payne at the time of his arrest at the house; I remained in the parlor all the time.

[The picture, “Morning, Noon, and Night,” was exhibited to the witness.]

I know this picture; it belonged to Miss Surratt, and was kept on the mantle-piece, but I do not know of any photograph placed behind it. I bought a photograph of J. Wilkes Booth and took it to Mrs. Surratt’s house; Miss Anna Surratt also bought-one. The last time I saw Mr. Booth at Mrs. Surratt’s was on the Monday before the assassination. John Surratt had left a fortnight before, and I never saw him after. I am acquainted with Louis J. Weichman; he was treated in Mrs. Surratt’s house more like a son than a friend.