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Of the specification, "Guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty." Of the charge, "Guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty." And the commission does therefore sentence him, the said Lewis Payne, "To be hung by the neck until he be dead, at such time and place as the President of the United States shall direct; two-thirds of the members of the commission concurring therein." 4. In the case of Mary B. Surratt, the commission, having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds the accused as follows: Of the specification, "Guilty, except as to receiving, entertaining, harboring, and concealing Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlin, and except as to combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty." Of the charge, "Guilty, except as to combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty." And the commission does therefore sentence her, the said Mary B. Surratt, "To be hung by the neck until she be dead, at such time and place as the President of the United States shall direct; two-thirds of the members of the commission concurring therein." 5. In the case of Michael O'Laughlin, the commission, having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds the accused as follows: Of the specification, "Guilty, except the words thereof as follows: 'And in the further prosecution of the conspiracy aforesaid and of its murderous and treasonable purposes aforesaid, on the nights of the 13th and 14th of April, A.D. 1865, at Washington City, and within the military department and military lines aforesaid, the said Michael O'Laughlin did then and there lie in wait for Ulysses S. Grant, then Lieutenant-General and commander of the armies of the United States, with intent then and there to kill and murder the said Ulysses S. Grant;' of said words, not guilty; and except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty." Of the charge, "Guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty." And the commission does therefore sentence him, the said Michael O'Laughlin, "To be imprisoned at hard labor for life at such penitentiary as the President of the United States shall designate." 6. In the case of Edward Spangler, the commission, having maturely considered th
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