Samuel Arnold, member of the Lincoln conspiracy Size:M: 50 x 40cm The Hoplotheca

The Hoplotheca

Ornithological study of a male Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)

with Leo (the lion)

A print from Penrose's Pictorial Annual

Samuel Arnold, member of the Lincoln conspiracy Size:M: 50 x 40cm The HoplothecaSamuel Arnold, member of the Lincoln conspiracy, 1865(1955). Arnold (1834 1906) was involved in two unsuccessful attempts to kidnap US President Abraham Lincoln with the intention of holding him for ransom in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners of war. He dropped out of the conspiracy before it resulted in Lincoln's assassination, but was arrested on suspicion of complicity. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was pardoned by