Article from The St. Cloud Journal, January 20, 1876:

–Applejack intoxicated Frank Johnson, a merchant of Wytherville (sic), Va., and he went to bed over his store. This was at night. Soon afterward his clerk and a friend named Moore entered arranged some goods, Johnson, still maudlin, mistook them for burglars and attacked them with a gun, whereupon they hastily fled. The rumor spread that Johnson had murdered his clerk, and a mob gathered around the store, in which the dazed drunkard stood with his gun in his hands. He thought the faces at the windows belonged to more burglars, and aimed the gun at them. They supposed the clerk was dying somewhere in the building, and determined to rescue him, Johnson made up his mind to defend himself bravely against the supposed robbers. Shots were fired, and Johnson was killed outright.

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