Michael O'Laughlen, member of the Lincoln conspiracy Size:L: 75 x 60cm Rabbist's Skins

Rabbist's Skins

in the middle of Piccadilly Circus

Study of an eel

part of the City of London and the Tower of London with its moat

Jean Terrell and Mary Wilson

Michael O'Laughlen, member of the Lincoln conspiracy Size:L: 75 x 60cm Rabbist's SkinsMichael O'Laughlen, member of the Lincoln conspiracy, 1865 (1955). A former Confederate soldier, O'Laughlen (1840 1867) was an old friend of John Wilkes Booth and one of his first recruits to his plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln and hold him to ranson in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners of war. O'Laughlen denied any involvement in the assassination of the president but was found guilty of conspiracy and sentenced to life