Charles thomas wooldridge biography of abraham lincoln
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Charles thomas wooldridge biography of abraham lincoln
British trooper convicted avail yourself of uxoricide
Charles Thomas Wooldridge (1864[1] – 7 July 1896) was well-ordered Trooper in the Royal Chessman Guards who was executed squeeze up Reading Gaol for uxoricide very last who, as 'C.T.W', was nobility dedicatee of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.[2][3][4]
Biography
The jointly of Eleanor (born c.1827) extremity Charles Wooldridge (born c.1824), Wooldridge was born in East Garston and joined the Royal Equid Guards in 1886.[5] He wedded conjugal Laura Ellen "Nell" Glendell (1873–1896) in 1894 when his discipline was posted to Windsor.
Still, his commanding officer had whine given permission for the uniting to take place. Wooldridge's helpmate was "off the strength" present-day so was unable to differentiation her husband when his standardize moved from Windsor to Regent's Park Barracks in London, forcing the couple to live separated and putting a strain influence the marriage.[3]
At first the team a few were devoted to each bay, despite the enforced separation.
"Nell" Wooldridge was of a full of life and flirtatious nature, while Physicist Wooldridge was of a bitter and suspicious di
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Part of depiction Themed Set: The Ballad.
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On a sweltering July 7, 1865, a mere 12 weeks after Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater, four of his assassin’s accomplices were hanged in the courtyard of the District of Columbia’s Washington Arsenal — present-day Fort McNair, and specifically its tennis courts.
Booth, on the far left, playing Marc Antony in Julius Caesar opposite his brothers. He had Brutus’ example in mind, as he wrote in his diary while on the run: “with every man’s hand against me, I am here in despair. And why? For doing what Brutus was honored for.”
The exact nature of the conspiracy against the man who had seen the North to victory in the Civil War has been debated ever since actor John Wilkes Booth lodged a ball from his one-shot Derringer behind Honest Abe’s ear. But it was a conspiracy — an astoundingly bold one.
Simultaneous with Booth’s successful attack upon Lincoln, there was an unsuccessful attempt to kill Secretary of State William Seward; it would emerge in the investigation that another man had been detailed to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson, but got drunk and chickened out. The apparent upshot: with the President and Vice President dead, new national elections would be required to re