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“Other witnesses had also told all they knew or thought would operate to his detriment, carefully withholding anything that would speak in his behalf,” the chronicler reported Johnson as saying.
Johnson claimed he did not poison his wife and that his own life had been in danger from the machinations of her friends. The crime was committed, he said, “by one of a darker hue than himself.”
As to his friend in^ Loudoun, he said but little, the lawyer reported. “The young lady whose name had been so freely spoken of in connection with his, was innocent of some of the charges preferred against her—though chargeable with some,” the prisoner alleged.
According to the anonymous author of the trial story, James Johnson then turned to the sheriff and said he was ready. "The noose was adjusted about his neck, the trap sprung, and the unfortunate being was launched into eternity."
As to Mollie Shreve, “soon after the development of the unfortunate events which wrought her shame and ruin, and condemned her naramonr to an ionnminniK
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