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Price Johnson

People

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Dates not yet confirmed

Price Johnson

Price Johnson is named as a defendant in the published 10 December 1935 Mohave County trial transcript, in the case of Price Johnson and I. C. Spencer. A public civil record that would fix his birth and death dates has not yet been confirmed.

The published transcript of 10 December 1935 is headed as the trial of Price Johnson and I. C. Spencer in Mohave County, Arizona. John Y. Barlow was called as a witness by the defense. In that testimony he said he believed Price Johnson had mailed the letter asking him to come to Short Creek, and that he had been living in Salt Lake City when he received it.1

The defense attorney named in the compilation heading is Victor J. Hayek; the prosecuting attorney is E. Elmo Bollinger. A UCLA catalog record for a 1935 Los Angeles Times photograph describes Bollinger as having filed charges of open and notorious cohabitation against a polygamy colony in Short Creek. This page does not add life dates or a fuller identification for Price Johnson beyond what the published transcript and that catalog description support.

Appearances

Sources

  1. Court transcript, Trial of Price Johnson and I. C. Spencer, Mohave County, Arizona, 10 December 1935, testimony of John Y. Barlow, published on the 19 March 1935 funeral page as a public record (no seal known), from the compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow.