Execution Tales Chapter 5 Revision 2
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05: Mrs Surratt
No more opportunities arose for them to attend the hanging of a woman until after the end of the conflict & the assassination of President Lincoln. The four surviving conspirators convicted of involvement in the killing of the President were due to be executed on July 7th 1865. Amongst them was 42 year old Mary Surratt.
As had been the case in the execution of Scarlett Fawcett Majors Major Edwards & Doctor Queen were on the invited guest list for the hangings. Again they sat in excited anticipation in the prison courtyard looking at the scaffold in front of them holding their small telescopes.
This time the gallows had been built significantly larger to accommodate the four condemned prisoners. It had two large traps, & over each one two ropes hung down. On one side of the gallows four shallow graves had been dug. Close by were stocked four pine boxes, the coffins
At 1.00 pm the soldiers in the yard were ordered to attention, & the prisoners emerged out into the sun. Mrs Surrat came out first dressed in black, she was bareheaded & the crowd could see that even though she was 42 years old, she was still a fine looking woman. Soldiers supported her on both sides.
The condemned men, Atzerodt, Herold & Paine followed, also with a soldier on either side holding their arms. The last member of the execution party to enter the yard was a priest, who was reading quietly from a bible.
They all had to be assisted up the scaffold steps. Four wooden armchairs had been placed on the gallows platform & the prisoners were seated in them. Directly in front of them dangled the nooses
Jane & Josiah could feel their arousals beginning to grow as they looked on through their eyepieces transfixed by the scene on the scaffold.
Major General Hartranft, commandant of the prison, stood in the middle of the platform & read the sentences to the prisoners. He asked if the condemned had any last words. Mrs Surrat looked up & said simply “I am innocent”.
General Hancock, the officer in charge of the executions climbed the steps to the platform & ordered the hangman, a conspicuous figure in his white coat & hat, to proceed. Soldiers pinioned the prisoners’ hands & tied strips of canvas around their ankles & above their knees. They were then made to stand & the wooden chairs were removed.
The nooses were placed around their necks by the hangman. Mrs Surratt swayed in a half faint “Please don’t hang me” she begged. White canvas death hoods were drawn over the prisoners’ heads. At 1.21 pm the executioner waved to the people on the platform to stand away from the traps. Hurriedly they stepped back.
Major General Hartranft clapped his hands three times. At the final clap, four soldiers knocked away the supports under the traps. The prisoners dropped some five feet to the end of the ropes, their descent coming to a sudden jerking stop. All four bodies shuddered as the nooses arrested their falls
Doctor Queen & Major Edwards can see clearly that Mrs Surratt is far from dead. Her legs wriggle, thighs rubbing together under her black skirt as she struggles against the tight bonds securing her legs. Her body convulses & shakes & her head nods rapidly up & down as she fights for a breath of air. After ten minutes her suffering ends & she swings on the end of her rope. She is the last to die.
Jane & Josiah both climax as Mrs Surrat expires. Their faces flushed they sit back in their seats & take deep breaths to compose themselves.
After half an hour the bodies were cut down from the scaffold & army surgeons pronounced the conspirators dead. Later The Washington Daily News would report that none of the prisoners’ necks had been broken, they had all strangled slowly to death on the gallows ropes
Jane & Josiah left the prison & as soon as they were back in Doctor Queen’s hotel room they threw themselves at each other, ripped their clothes off & engaged in some incredibly intense, sex
The final thing that Jane & Josiah were impressed by after the execution of the Lincoln conspirators was the quality of the pictures of the hangings that appeared in the newspapers shortly afterwards. They cut them out & kept them along with the other articles in their growing collection
No more opportunities arose for them to attend the hanging of a woman until after the end of the conflict & the assassination of President Lincoln. The four surviving conspirators convicted of involvement in the killing of the President were due to be executed on July 7th 1865. Amongst them was 42 year old Mary Surratt.
As had been the case in the execution of Scarlett Fawcett Majors Major Edwards & Doctor Queen were on the invited guest list for the hangings. Again they sat in excited anticipation in the prison courtyard looking at the scaffold in front of them holding their small telescopes.
This time the gallows had been built significantly larger to accommodate the four condemned prisoners. It had two large traps, & over each one two ropes hung down. On one side of the gallows four shallow graves had been dug. Close by were stocked four pine boxes, the coffins
At 1.00 pm the soldiers in the yard were ordered to attention, & the prisoners emerged out into the sun. Mrs Surrat came out first dressed in black, she was bareheaded & the crowd could see that even though she was 42 years old, she was still a fine looking woman. Soldiers supported her on both sides.
The condemned men, Atzerodt, Herold & Paine followed, also with a soldier on either side holding their arms. The last member of the execution party to enter the yard was a priest, who was reading quietly from a bible.
They all had to be assisted up the scaffold steps. Four wooden armchairs had been placed on the gallows platform & the prisoners were seated in them. Directly in front of them dangled the nooses
Jane & Josiah could feel their arousals beginning to grow as they looked on through their eyepieces transfixed by the scene on the scaffold.
Major General Hartranft, commandant of the prison, stood in the middle of the platform & read the sentences to the prisoners. He asked if the condemned had any last words. Mrs Surrat looked up & said simply “I am innocent”.
General Hancock, the officer in charge of the executions climbed the steps to the platform & ordered the hangman, a conspicuous figure in his white coat & hat, to proceed. Soldiers pinioned the prisoners’ hands & tied strips of canvas around their ankles & above their knees. They were then made to stand & the wooden chairs were removed.
The nooses were placed around their necks by the hangman. Mrs Surratt swayed in a half faint “Please don’t hang me” she begged. White canvas death hoods were drawn over the prisoners’ heads. At 1.21 pm the executioner waved to the people on the platform to stand away from the traps. Hurriedly they stepped back.
Major General Hartranft clapped his hands three times. At the final clap, four soldiers knocked away the supports under the traps. The prisoners dropped some five feet to the end of the ropes, their descent coming to a sudden jerking stop. All four bodies shuddered as the nooses arrested their falls
Doctor Queen & Major Edwards can see clearly that Mrs Surratt is far from dead. Her legs wriggle, thighs rubbing together under her black skirt as she struggles against the tight bonds securing her legs. Her body convulses & shakes & her head nods rapidly up & down as she fights for a breath of air. After ten minutes her suffering ends & she swings on the end of her rope. She is the last to die.
Jane & Josiah both climax as Mrs Surrat expires. Their faces flushed they sit back in their seats & take deep breaths to compose themselves.
After half an hour the bodies were cut down from the scaffold & army surgeons pronounced the conspirators dead. Later The Washington Daily News would report that none of the prisoners’ necks had been broken, they had all strangled slowly to death on the gallows ropes
Jane & Josiah left the prison & as soon as they were back in Doctor Queen’s hotel room they threw themselves at each other, ripped their clothes off & engaged in some incredibly intense, sex
The final thing that Jane & Josiah were impressed by after the execution of the Lincoln conspirators was the quality of the pictures of the hangings that appeared in the newspapers shortly afterwards. They cut them out & kept them along with the other articles in their growing collection
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