Samuel Arnold, member of the Lincoln conspiracy Size:M: 50 x 40cm a new song

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A print from Penrose's Pictorial Annual

The term 'goat-sucker' comes from the folk myth that these birds sucked the milk from goats

and went on to become a highly organised teaching and missionary society which was at the forefront of the Counter-Reformation

Samuel Arnold, member of the Lincoln conspiracy Size:M: 50 x 40cm a new songSamuel 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