Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot Size:L: 70 x 70cm Wakefield Tower and St Thomas

Wakefield Tower and St Thomas Tower at the Tower of London

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One of the criticisms levelled at Walpole was that he had been too lenient and timorous in his dealings with rioters and ruffians

Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot Size:L: 70 x 70cm Wakefield Tower and St ThomasEdward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot, 1865 (1955). Spangler (1825 1875) worked at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC at the time when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated there by John Wilkes Booth. Spangler was involved in preparing the box that Lincoln used on the night of his death, and had been overheard speaking negatively of the president. He was arrested and tried for having been an accomplice of Booth's and was sentenced to six