Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot Size:L: 70 x 70cm the Liberal leader William Gladstone

the Liberal leader William Gladstone

in an ornamental border with a song sheet below

Inscribed below: 'A

by Robert Seppings

as illuminated in June 1814 to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Paris bringing an end to the War between France and the Sixth Coalition

Edward Spangler, member of the Lincoln assassination plot Size:L: 70 x 70cm the Liberal leader William GladstoneEdward 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