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In supporting the guilty verdict Judge Tyler said, "Never in my experience have I seen a chain of circumstantial evidence more complete, more consistant or more conclusive of guilt. . . . In the long, black catalog 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."
Judge Tyler is also reported to have said, the trial "evidenced an adulterous and guilty passion, which like a tornado has blasted in its course the reputation of a deluded female, wrecked her peace and happiness forever and has spread death, desolation and destruction."
Mr. Baumgardner reported that Benjamin F. Kennedy, was the justice of the peace who issued the warrant for Mr. Johnson's arrest, was one of his creditors. A member of the jury which convicted him, James William Fletcher, the grandfather of attorney James W. Fletcher, was another creditor, but no pne at that time considered such things a conflict of interest.
The Sheriff who escorted Mr. Johnson from the jail through throngs of people accompanied by a corps of muskets and hung him from a tree in the area that now holds the pond on the property of Evelyn and Stewart Willis was William T. Miller, an ancestor of Newbill Miller.
At the hanging Mr. Johnson is reported to have said he did not deny he had received a fair trial, "I do not blame the judge or jury, but I do blame the witnesses," and then he proceeded to name them all, Mr. Baumgardner reported.
He said Mollie Shreve later traveled to the far west "a far cry from the beautiful young girl she had been. She was a poor penitent and heart broken."
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