Surratt

[ suh-rat ]

noun

1. Mary Eugenia (Jenkins), 1820–65, alleged conspirator: boardinghouse owner hanged as accomplice in assassination of President Lincoln.

Example Sentences

Robin Wright portrays Surratt as a stoic and sympathetic figure, certain to win over filmgoers just as she did her lawyer.

From The Daily Beast

Surratt was hanged, despite her apparent innocence, and the scene is both vivid and lurid as onlookers celebrate.

From The Daily Beast

The nation had never executed a woman, and until Surratt heads to the gallows, Aiken thought he could save her.

From The Daily Beast

Of the remaining thirty-four there were nine whose testimony was directed to the incrimination of Mrs. Surratt.

From Project Gutenberg

And as to Mrs. Surratt, the only witnesses of importance against her are Weichman and Lloyd.

From Project Gutenberg

This man Lloyd it was who, in fact, furnished the only bit of evidence directly connecting Mrs. Surratt with the crime.

From Project Gutenberg

Last, there emerges from the dungeon-like darkness of the doorway the single female prisoner, Mary E. Surratt.

From Project Gutenberg

They sentence “Mary E. Surratt to be hanged by the neck until she be dead.”

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