On this day, April 17, in 1865, Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in President Lincoln’s assassination. Surratt operated a safehouse for Confederate spies in Prince George’s County and a boarding house in the District, where John Wilkes Booth conspired against Lincoln.
On his flight from Washington, Booth stopped at the safehouse to retrieve weapons and supplies.
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