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flitted before his vision for a moment,” the anonymous chronicler wrote.
Sentenced To Hang
“In the long black catalogue of guilt and woe that make up the criminal record which has come down to us, there is no deed that stands out in colors of deeper, darker malignity than yours,” the judge told Johnson as he sentenced him to death by hanging on Friday, the 13th of May.
At 1 p.m. on that day, guarded by a volunteer corps of musketry, Johnson was led through a crowd of near 5,000 to the gallows. He climbed the platform with a firm step, turned to the sea of faces that surrounded him and “in a clear and distinct tone of voice, manifesting neither fear or excitement” maintained his innocence.
James Johnson proclaimed ' that his life had been falsely sworn away through prejudice and ill will on the cart of some of his enemies. He conceded that his trial had been fair and impartial. He .didn’t blame the jurors for his wrongful conviction but rather the witnesses who had sworn falsely against
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