Mr. Lincoln was shot at a quarter past ten on Good Fri day, April 14, 1865. Five hours later, in the dead of night, a squad of metropolitan police visited the Surratt boardinghouse on H Street and pounded wildly on the outer door, clamoring for admit tance.

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