A desperado is a reckless, violent criminal.
Who is referred to as a desperado in the passage?

Andrew Johnson

John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
The desperado managed to escape from the house, and was prepared for escape by having a horse at the door. He immediately mounted the horse, and sung out the motto of the State of Virginia, “Sic Semper Tyrannis!” and rode off.

—New York Herald,
April 15, 1865