Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Trial of John H. Surratt in the Criminal Court for the District of Columbia, Vol. 1
The court was opened at 10 o'clock. Present the district attorney, E. C. Carrington, esq., his assistant, N. Wilson, esq., and associate counsel, Messrs. Edwards Pierrepont and A. G. Riddle, for the United States, and the prisoner and his counsel, Messrs. Joseph H. Bradley, R. T. Merrick, and Joseph H. Bradley, junior.
The court said: Gentlemen, this is the day assigned for the trial of John H. Surratt, indicted for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States. Are you ready to proceed?
Mr. Bradley. The prisoner is ready, sir, and has been from the first.
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