The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . ty by twelve feet, held in its positionon the farther side by shorter props, of which there weremany, and reached by fifteen steps, railed on either floor had no supports on the side nearest the eye,except two temporary rods, at the foot of which two in-clined beams pointed menacingly, held in poise by ropesfrom the gallows floor. Two hinges only held the floorto its firmer half. These were to give way at the fatalmoment. The traps were two, sustained by two different noose
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . ty by twelve feet, held in its positionon the farther side by shorter props, of which there weremany, and reached by fifteen steps, railed on either floor had no supports on the side nearest the eye,except two temporary rods, at the foot of which two in-clined beams pointed menacingly, held in poise by ropesfrom the gallows floor. Two hinges only held the floorto its firmer half. These were to give way at the fatalmoment. The traps were two, sustained by two different nooses were on each side of the central by the foot of the gallows four wooden boxes wereat the edge of four newly excavated graves, the freshearth of which was already dried and brittle in the burn- 20O ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ing sun. In these boxes and pits were to be placed thevictims when the gallows had let them down. Xot farfrom these, in silence and darkness beneath the prison G. W. Frederick. Lt. G. W. Geissinger. Surg. G. L. Porter. j^T:!^j^{?^Jfl^J^ flj [. General John F. A. R. Watts. W. H. McCall. Col. L. A. Dodd. Capt. C. Roth. JOHN F. H.\RTR.\XFT AND ST.\FF, IN CHARGE OF THEEXECUTION OF THE CONSPIRATORS. where they had lain so long and so forebodingly, thebody of John \\ilkes Booth, sealed up in the brick floor,had been moldering. If the dead can hear, he had lis-tened many a time to the rattle of their manacles uponthe stairs: to the drowsy hum of the trial and the buzzof the garrulous spectators: to the moaning or the gib-ing or the praying in the bolted cells where those whom THE EXECUTION. 201 kindred fate had given a little lease upon life lay wait-ing for the terrible pronouncement. The sentence gavethem only till two oclock, and it was near that time,when suddenly the wicket opens, the troops spring totheir feet and stand at order arms, the flags go up, thelow order passes from company to com
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