Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1890-02-14
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Otter Johnson, the Lordsburg murderer, after having served a little over one year of his three years’ sentence, is now asking for a par- don. Like Geronimo, he has embraced the cross, and now desires an opportunity to teach Sunday school. His light sentence of only three years was a disgrace to the juries of this county, and was a surprise even to Johnson himself. He has threatened to kill a few people in Lordsburg whenever he has the opportunity, and if he is pardoned he may carry out his threats. The circumstances of the crime have been fully set out before the governor, who, of course, will not grant the pardon. ( 7 )