Michael O'Laughlen, member of the Lincoln conspiracy Yakima County View of coaches in the

View of coaches in the yard at the Spread Eagle Inn

Known as 'Cheerful' Charlie Chester

Viscount Melville

Henry Fawcett

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Michael O'Laughlen, member of the Lincoln conspiracy Yakima County View of coaches in 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