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Tiger Valley Road and the arrest was executed by Sheriff William G. Miller.
Kennedy was Johnson’s largest creditor, with Johnson owing him $1100 - $1200 and was also the doctor who performed the postmortem on Alice Johnson.
The foreman of the jury during the trial, James W. Fletcher, who owned Fletcher’s Mill, was also a creditor of Johnson’s.
“Those are just a couple of the factors that would indicate a mis-trial in court today,” said Baumgardner.
On March 25, 1859 at 3:20 p.m., the jury began deliberation. By 3:40 p.m., the jury returned with a verdict — guilty of murder.
On March 26, Johnson was sentenced by the Honorable John Tyler who, in reading the verdict, said, “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.”
lyier sentenced Johnson to hang from the gallows on Friday the 13th day of May. On the day of execution, a crowd of 5,000 spectators gathered.
Johnson walked the stairs, turned and spoke his last words, “I do not blame the judge or jury, but to you, the witnesses, you testified falsely. Damn you, damn you, damn you all to eternity.”
“As for Mollie Shreve,” Baumgardner added as a postscript, “soon after the unfortunate events, she went out west with a family, a poor, penitent, heart-broken young woman.”
Comparing the past to the present, Baumgardner said, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
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