Picture No | 10505191 |
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Description | Lewis Thornton Powell aka Lewis Payne |
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Lewis Payne (1844 - 1865), implicated in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The group also included John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, Samuel Bland Arnold , Michael O'Laughlen and John Surratt, who wanted to exhange the president for Confederate prisoners in Washington D.C. When Lincoln was assassinated by Wilkes Booth on 14th April 1865, Payne was arrested and hung for his crime.
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Source | Photograph by Gardner |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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