Michael O'Laughlen, member of the Lincoln conspiracy mb-copyright Chris Herring/Loop Images/Corbis South west view of the

South west view of the Apothecaries' Hall

Fire screen seller of the late 17th century whose cry was 'I have Screenes if you desier to keep your Buty from ye fire'

'All Bond Street trembled as he strode'

Buckingham Palace forecourt

Count Orlov

Michael O'Laughlen, member of the Lincoln conspiracy mb-copyright Chris Herring/Loop Images/Corbis South west view of theMichael 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