John Wilkes Booth's seven co-conspirators

Samuel Arnold

In 1864 Booth recruited Baltimore schoolmate Arnold to kidnap Lincoln in Washington in March 1865. After the plan’s failure, Arnold landed a job in Virginia. He was arrested April 17, 1865, after confessing to the plot to kidnap Lincoln. Co-workers supported Arnold’s claim that he was in Virginia at the time of Lincoln’s assassination. Still he was charged with conspiracy, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. President Johnson pardoned Arnold in March 1869. In 1906 he was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. He was 72.