Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-11-28

lue lrouOtG and mysterious outrGgeS i'm
Greene County New York are likely TO be ex.
posed. We have already mentioned the arrcs,
oi John Johnson, an old anu wealthy citizen
OF Greene, charged with the murder of Mrs.
BOUT III May, loi4. The Oxford Times gives
an outline OF the testimony adduccd on his
examination.
James Bonlt, husband of the murdered wo
man, testified that he lived OIL Johnson's farm
in April. 1914 that his wife told him tina,
Johnson had had criminal intercourse with her,
that he had used force and had threatened her
life is She ever disclosed it:-ihat he told
Johnson Of this, and that Johnson admitted
the fact Of criminal intercourse and Offered 70
settle the matter by paying him money; that
he refused and Johnson threatened him: thai
this occurred on Saturday and ON next Mon.
day his wife left his house and had not been
or heard Of since. 1t is further stated that
BOUTS daughter overheard the threats that
Johnson used TO her mother.
Mrs. Burdick, who was gagged and thrown
into a swamp, has made an affidavit stating
that in August last she overheard a converse.
ton between Johnson and her mother. 1.-THE
widow Baxter of Greene,) in which Johnson
said to Mrs. Baxter, if he could get rid OF Mrs.
johnson he would marry her-ihati if he could
dispose OF her as easy as he did of Mrs. Boult,
he would do it-that he knew a couple of fel.
lows below Binshamton he thought he could
get to do it-that they disposed of Mrs. Boult,
She further says that she told Johnson she had
overheard this conversation, and that Johnson
then said that if she ever told OF il he would
be the means Of her death, and that she prom.
ised not to. She further states that abou,
three weeks after Johnson came 10 her hons,
when she was alone, when the following
took pluce -
She asked him If be had any work for her Ia
do-any sewing? that he said no, but business
OF more importance, and said she must do i |
for him, that she then attempted 10 escapp
that Johnson then seized an axe and said he
wouh khl her If she left the room, that before
he Johnson left he led her into the Kitchen.
tied her hauds behind her with a clothes line.
and tied her TO a bed post, tied q bonnet over
heT lace, ana then went out doors and came
back with a flour bag partly filled-tha, ne
"' W" ohiiN " IItI Idtt, united lief
hands, tied the cord round her waist long
enough so she could 90 to the fire while lied
to the bed post; that he then took a quantity
ol human bones out Of the bag, among which
was the head bones and others; that nc ,old
her they were Mrs. BOUTS boues. and said
she must burn them; that she Iaintcd; that
Johnson then burnt the bones-that he held
an axe over her head, made her get on her
knees and said he was afraid she would tell OF
IT, and That hc was a mind TO Kill her on the
spot; that she begged for her life. that he said
ne would destroy her as he had Mrs. Bout
and burn her up as she had seen her bone,
burn, il she told of it; that il he was hung h,
had friends that would kill her. and she knew
u, as she had inst seen with her own eyes
that he then united her and wen; away.
Mrs. Burdick further SAYS she told he,
mother on the Saturday, and also on Sunla,
before her abduction, that she would expos,
her and MIR. Johnson, and that she did not tel
what she knew before she was carried away
Whether these statements will be maintained
remains To be seen. II they prove to be- true
they iasten upon Johnson The guilt Of ,hcs,
most hOTrid transactions.