Edmund Spangler
Conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination
Died when: 49 years 181 days (593 months)Star Sign: Leo
Edman "Ned" Spangler (August 10, 1825 – February 7, 1875), baptized Edmund Spangler, was an American carpenter and stagehand who was employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's murder on April 14, 1865.
He and seven others were charged in conspiring to assassinate Lincoln and three other high level government officials.Spangler was the only one found not guilty of the conspiracy charge.
Even so, he was found guilty of helping Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, escape and sentenced to six years of hard labor.
Related People
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License