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

Rabbist's Skins

Formerly the residence of the Knights of Malta

Showing the eardrum of a three-week old Indian elephant at at natural size

and the City's arms in a laurel wreath

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