People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — ELECTROCUTED. [ARTICLE]

ELECTROCUTED.

John Johnson, the Convict Murderer, Dies in the Electric Chair. Aururn, N. Y., Nov. 16.—John Johnson, the colored convict murderer, was executed in the electric chair in the prison at 12:40 p. m. Tuesday. He walked to his death calmly and his nerve did not desert him. The execution was a success. Johnson was known as the “Blue Nigger from Clyde.” He had been a criminal for years and had been sent up for various crimes many times. April 17 last, without excuse or warning and simply while in a fit of ill temper, Johnson ran through the broomshop of the prison and began slashing right and left among the convicts with a broomknife. He stabbed Charles Peck to the heart and slashed Daniel Britton in , the abdomen, death resulting in two hours. Several others were badly cut before the convict was disarmed.