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The Ed Johnson & Sheriff Shipp Trials: Selected Images
Scenes
St. Elmo Station,
Scene of Attack on Nevada Taylor in 1906
Walnut Street Bridge,
Scene of Lynching of Ed Johnson
Ed Johnson's
Tombstone
Courtroom in Old
Senate Chamber, Scene of Trial of Sheriff Shipp
Attorneys
Style Hutchins
W. G. M. Thomas
Noah Parden
Lewis Shepherd
Prosecutor Matt
Whitaker
Judges
Trial Judge Samuel
McReynolds
Supreme Court Justice
John Marshall Harlan
Defendant
Sheriff Joseph F.
Shipp
The images above appear
in Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips, Jr.'s Contempt of Court: The Turn-of
the-Century Lynching That Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism (Faber
& Faber, 1999)
