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was born prematurely and he concealed it to hide her shame.
But after Mollie was taken by her father to his home in Loudoun, she wrote Johnson, asking him if “you ever go to our baby’s grave?” and if he thought of her there (the letter dated February 8, 1858).
Then on March 30, she wrote that she wished “my boy, my baby were living...Yes, if you had left and given me my baby, then indeed would the place in my heart, now void, been occupied."
The author of the booklet saw her longing to have kept the infant as evidence that the babe was bom alive and “taken from her and destroyed by her remorseless seducer, or others in conjunction with him.”
Then in a letter to Johnson dated March, 1958, “Little Mollie,” as she signed the message, wrote "I never intend to go with you until after the death of Aunt, unless you get a divorce. You would go to Kentucky, and stay twelve months and a day. The law would then grant you the privilege of choosing another bride. The very idea of such a thing appears wicked. I wonder, poor woman, if she suspects the sorrows in store for her. And for me, sometimes when I think of our plans, how wicked and sinful they are. I almost say I’ll do no such thing; but, then, if 1 were to marry another, I never could love him like I love you.”
But James Johnson never went to Kentucky. Instead, according to testimony at his trial, he began to spread the word among his friends and acquaintances that he wouldn’t be surprised if his wife Alice died at any time as she was “subject to spells.”
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