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Samuel Johnson death warrant, certificate, William F. Mathues, Sherriff

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Date: 1889 (circa)

Samuel Johnson was accused of the murder of John Sharpless and sat in the Media Jail awaiting death by hanging for several years before his sentence was commuted to life in prison. Appleton probably photographed this 1886 document several years after…