The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . draped in mourning, made its ap-pearance in advance of the funeral train, which consistedof nine cars. It was announced to arrive at eight oclock,but did not reach the depot until a few minutes beforenine. The remains were transferred from the funeral car tothe beautiful hearse tendered by the mayor of St. the procession had been formed, it proceeded fromthe Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad to the StateHouse, entering through the east gate and passing to 114 ASSASSINATION OF ABR
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . draped in mourning, made its ap-pearance in advance of the funeral train, which consistedof nine cars. It was announced to arrive at eight oclock,but did not reach the depot until a few minutes beforenine. The remains were transferred from the funeral car tothe beautiful hearse tendered by the mayor of St. the procession had been formed, it proceeded fromthe Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad to the StateHouse, entering through the east gate and passing to 114 ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. the Hall of Representatives by the north entrance. Thecoffin was placed on the catafalque, and a few minutespast lo oclock A. M. the vast crowd was admitted to viewthe remains. At half-past eleven on the 4th the cortege moved toOak Ridge Cemetery, where the body was placed in atemporary vault, when Bishop Matthew Simpson deliv-ered the funeral address, and Abraham Lincoln was leftalone in the grass-green valley, where the little brooksweeping by his tomb sung each day a THE TEMPORARY VAULT, Oak Ridge Cemeterv, Springfield, 111., in which the body of AbrahamLincoln was placed May 4, 1865. CHAPTER VII. TRIAL AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CONSPIRATORS. The assassination of President Lincoln was a militarycrime. He was killed while actually in command of thearmy, as ; consequently the con-spirators were excluded from any right to a trial in thecivil courts. President Andrew Johnson asked Attorney-General James Speed whether the persons charged withthe ofTense of having assassinated the President shouldbe tried before a military tribunal or a civil court. TheAttorney-General rendered the following decision: That if the persons who are charged with assassina-tion of the President committed the deed as public ene-mies, as I believe they did, and whether they did or notis a question to be decided by the tribunal before whichthey are tried, they not on
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