Assassination Trivia

[Eva Elisabeth]

Since nobody seems to know I now "publish" my research (didn't know either). I found one senator, James H. Lane, who died on July 11, 1866, from shooting himself in the head on July 1:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi...GRid=10284

"After the war James H. Lane sided with President Andrew Johnson against the Radical Republicans, making powerful enemies and was soon accused of being involved in fraudulent Indian contracts. Severely depressed while defending himself and in fragile mental health, he shot himself in the head on July 1, 1866, lingering for 10 days before succumbing."

According to Wiki "on July 1, 1866 he shot himself in the head as he jumped from his carriage in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was allegedly deranged, depressed, had been charged with abandoning his fellow Radical Republicans and had been accused of financial irregularities. He died ten days later near Leavenworth, Kansas, a result of the self-inflicted gunshot."

In line with the oddities of the Lincoln assassination at least two newspapers published his death before it happened. According to the "Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 31, Number 4764", of 4 July 1866, he died on July 2:

"NEWS OF THE MORNING.
James Henry Lane...United States Senator from Kansas, committed suicide at Leavenworth on the Ist of July. He had complained of ill health at St. Louis, where he attempted suicide but was saved by his friends. At Leavenworth he shot himself through the head, and died next day."
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18660704.2.5

A "Special Dispatch to the New-York Times" of July 04, 1866, too, had already reported his death:
"The telegraph has apprises us of the sudden death by suicide of JAMES H. LANE, Senator from Kansas..."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.ht...838D679FDE

And, according to Michael Kaufman, he seemed to have prevented Anna Surratt seeing President Johnson to beg for clemency in her mother's case.