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;1.THE FACT 2.THE TRIAL AND APPEALS 3.THE LYNCHING OF ED JOHNSON 4.TRIAL IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES;THE FACT The Shipp trial has its roots in a rape that took place on a dark January evening in 1906 the St. Elmo district of Chattanooga. On January 23, 1906,Twenty-one-year old Nevada Taylor, on her way home from her bookkeeping job in downtown Chattanooga, is raped by a black man with a soft, kind voice shortly after 6:30 p.m. in St. Elmo Cemetery.Sheriff Joseph Shipp directs a search for the rapist, witnesses, and evidence. The search turns up only a black leather strap used in the rape. January 24, 1906 Shipp offers a $50 reward to anyone providing information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the St. Elmo rapist. By the next day, the reward fund grows to $375. ;the St. Elmo district of Chattanooga 查塔努加圣埃尔莫区 rapist 强奸犯 ;January 25, 1906 Will Hixon, a white man who worked near the rape scene, tells Shipp that he saw a black man twirling a leather strap around his finger shortly before the rape. Hixon later calls Shipp to report having seen the suspect walking toward town. Shipp eventually finds the suspect, Ed Johnson, riding on an ice truck and arrests him. Shipp questions Johnson for three hours, but Johnson claims to know nothing of the rape. Over 1,500 people gather in the courtyard in front of the jail where they assume Johnson is being held. Many in the crowd have guns or rope. The lynch mob storms the jail. Tennessee Governor Cox orders the National Guard to protect the jail, but it is heavily damaged. Johnson, who had been moved to Nashville earlier in the day out of a concern that he might be lynched, is unharmed.; Tennessee 田纳西州 Nashville 纳什维尔 jail 监狱;THE TRIAL AND APPEALS February 6, 1906 Johnson is returned under a heavily-armed guard to Chattanooga for the start of his trial. Nevada Taylor testifies, identifying Johnson as her attacker. Will Hixon tells the jury, This defendant here is the Negro I saw wit