Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-02
MISS WHITE TELLS OF HER
ENGAGEMENT TO DENTIST
Says johnson Told Her When He
Came TO Wife's Funeral Boy
Friend Had Dropped Dead.
WILLING TO TESTIFY, SHE SAYS
Admits Having Conc With Him
Against Her Fnther's Wishes.
Johnson TO Havo Hearing in Po.
lice Court To-Morrow. '. =
MILLING TO TESTIFY, SHE SAYS
Especial to Tho Timcs.D!spatch. !


RALEIGH, y. c.. January Inter
viewed for the first timc since the
death OF tho young wife of Or. Lemucl
j. johnson in Richmond on December
10. Miss Ollie White. boyhood sweet
heart of the young dentist, to-day
barred the story OF his courtship, which,
she says. eliminated in his cnEa:cmcnt
to her in August 1916. Miss White
declares that she is willing to go to
Richmond and testify against tho young
dentist in the preliminary hearing
Thursday.
The disappointed fancce of Dr. John
son is more insouclant than sricvcd
over the charge of wife murder against,
tho MiddlcSeS dentist, and declares
cmphatically that the revelation Of his
duplicity drowned all her affection for
nm. She talked to-day freely about
ncr association with him. saying moth
ing could have so startled her as the
announcement from Richmond that he
vas secretly married. handsome en-
EaSement ring and beautiful cameo
erooch. among other gifts to her from
Or. Johnson, corroborate the story Of
the ninctcen-ycar-o auburn haired
music teacher.
WENT WITH HIM AGAINST
HER FATHERS WISHES
She admitted that she went with him
against the wishes OF her father. who
twice ordered DR.. Johnson not to pay
attention to Miss White. She last saw
him. she said to-day, Saturday after
noon before he left Middlesex to at
tend his wife's funeral. He told her
and other friends then that he had
been called to Richmond 10 attend the
fuheral OF boy friend who had
dropped dead on the streets
In letter DR.. Johnson wrote Miss
whites father on December 3. after he
Fad been warned not to visit her. he
told the young lady's father:
l shall not stop going with her by
any means. for ! believe nothing but
death can ever break our friendship
H. the same letter he wrote: II have
known for long time that I was not
welcome in your home. but love is
something that cannot he que nched by
another. ] have always loved and held
your daughter In high esteem. and have
always treated her as / would have
smother boy TO treat my sister"
HE AND MISS WHITE TAUGHT
IN SAME SUNDAY SCHOOL.
The youth and indifference OF Mas
White is prominent factor in dcnom-
mating her love affair with the young
dentist more OF budding courtship
than betrothal solcmnly regarded by
lovers slightly older She is attra ctive.
IL not real pretty, and is in no wise
melancholy over the strange turn OF
affairs.
MiddleseS people do not place much
credencc IN the report that Dr. John
son Is insane. lie never appeared or
to his associates in the little town
where ho established dental office
after receiving his license last July.
He and Miss White were both popular
there. and both were sunday -schoo;
teachers In the same church.
The young woman's father Is a sub
atantial farmer OF Nash County, and
the family is an unprctentious ono
His people arc regarded well and his
father rcputcd 70 bs wcll-to-do. The
latter Will leave Wilson tomorrow, In
company with John l.. Woodward. OF
CONTINUED on Second PaEe0