E.B. Johnson

JOHNSON, GAMBLE

Posted By: P. Chase (email)
Date: 1/22/2013 at 07:28:05

The Clinton Morning Age, Apr 3, 1894, p.4, col. 5.
E.B. JOHNSON.

The remains of the late E B. Johnson, of Kansas City, were laid in the tomb Sunday, by Hart Div. U. R K. P., of which order deceased had been an honored member in his home city. The casket reached the city at 1:45 Sunday morning, over the C.& N.W., and was met at the depot by a delegation of Hart Div., who escorted the remains to the armory where they were laid in state under guard in uniform, which was relieved at stated intervals until Sunday at 12:30 when they and the muorning friends were escorted to the city of the dead, the remains being placed in a vault tomb, in the family lot, in the new part, just on the side of a gently sloping hill, the ritual of rank being used. It will be recalled that Sir Knight Johnson, a son-in-law of Eng. John Gamble, was a prominent attorney in Kansas City. he and a banker named Little, were interested in a coal mine, and a stub railroad, and out of this grew the enmity of Little for Johnson, which resulted some three months after Johnson had withdrawn from the company, in Little meeting him on the street, the evening of July 19, 1893, and shooting him dead, while he was standing between two of his friends. Prominent attorneys from all over that section at that time tendered their services to help prosecute the murderer, and as the case was given to the jury last week, the body was for the first time released and allowed taken from the state. Report comes from Kansas City that the jury failed to agree, eight standing for conviction and four for acquittal, and that the next trial will come on in the May term.