Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-05-29
a SANDER REFUTEp.
INDIGNANT Denial BY rrenines, Citizens


We checrfully give the following place in our
columns. The facts as stated below by promi-
nent and influential citizens of Greenevilc arc
no doubt true. One of the editors of the
CHRONICLE took pains some weeks ago to in
vestigate the matters referred TO, and found to
his satisfaction that the charges were untrue
Great injustice has been done all concerned by
the unfortunate publication, and we are glad to
publish this contradiction;
GREENEvILLE Tenn, May % 1872
EDITORS CnRoN1cLE: Our attention has been
called to the following Especial" cut from the
indianapolis journal of the Goth inst,
ANDY JOHNSON As A sEDUCER-sUICGDE OF
HIS VICTIM.
"BRooKLYN, May 1S.--A few days since it
was announced that Mrs Emily Harold, wife of
the Postmaster Mt Greeneyile, East Tennessee,
had committed suicide by shooting herself
through the head with revolver A letter
just received by a resident of Greeneville, now
in Brooklyn attending the Methodist General
Conference, conveys the intelligence that Mrs
Harold had been seduced by ex-Pres;dent
johnson, and that discovery and exposure led
her to the commission of the rash act. Great
indignation is expressed among the citizens of
Greeneville against the eX-President, and many
Of thc.best citizens refuse to speak to him on the
street.-Mdy 10Th"
SO far as we know, this is the first lbelous
publication of the scandal current here about II
Harold to suicide. AT that time it was
thoroughly and carefully Investigated by some
of us, and we did not hesitate then, nor do we
now, to pronounce it a cruel and malicious
SANDER.
Mrs. Harold was about fifty-two years of
age, and for over thirty years had been n mem
Der of the Presbyterian Church here, during
all which time she had sustained the character
of an earnest, consistent Christian, chaste and
faithful wife, kind and dutiful mother, char
ita hla ppiplbOr and q true and noble woman.
respected and esteemed by all iii this commune
t.. She had during all her whole life, been
the intimate, personal friend and companion OF
Mrs. johnson, living for many years past with
in few steps of each other. The cruel shaft
of SANDER dcthroned her reason and pierced her
heart.
Great indignation is felt among the good
citizens of Greeneville.n Its object, however,
is not the ex-President, but the author and ut
terers of the infamous and groundless SANDER,
which has caused the death of one of the purest
women, sent sorrow and grief to many happy
homes, and cast gloom over the whole COM
munity.
Unsolicited and without consulting either OF
the injured families, we offer this voluntary
tribute of truth to the memory of a virtuous,
noble woman and the character of u distin-
guished, respected and esteemed ncighbor most
foully slandered, and in justice TO the living
and the dead, request its publication.
ii III Ingersoll,
Robert NJ Mckee.
&c Reeves, Editor of Sentinel.
Sam Milligan, Judge Court of Claims.
Jas A Galbraith, former Int Rev Col.
James III Robinson, Attorney.
Lewis + Self, former Senator.
A Walker, Sheriff of Greene county.
All Pettibone, Asst U Dist Atty
5 Il Snapp, Mayor of Greenevile.
Sc NcCsrkle, Pastor Presbyterian Church
ID II Britton, Clerk Circuit Court.
David Sewer, twenty-seven years G " bl
Robert McCorkle.
Felix A Reeve, Attorney.
A NJ Piper, Deputy Int Rev Col.
Citizens of GreeneYille.