The Shipp Trial: An Account by Douglas Linder (c) 2000

"I am ready to die. But I never done it. I am going to tell the truth. I am not guilty. I have said all the time

that I did not do it, and it is true. I was not there. I know I am going to die and I have no fear to die

and I have no fear at all....God bless you all. I am innocent." --The last words of Ed Johnson before he was lynched on the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga on March 19, 1906. . Famous Trials Homepage