Kenneth Clyde Johnson was born 24 Feb 1897 in Ornogo, Missouri, to Abraham Lincoln Johnson (1861-1937) & Margaret Hearst (1867-1917).
Inmate: #28083 San Quentin Prison
Rec: 24 Dec 1914
Crime: Rape (Statutory was dropped for some reason, she was 14 and he was 17).
Term: 6 Yrs
Age: 17
I found the following newspaper articles, click on the clinks to read those.
Here it says statutory
The girls mother reported it
Here's the link for this one I know it's hard to read:
His pardon was denied. In 1915 his mother work feverishly to free her son. He contracted tuberculosis in his ear and under went surgery while he was in San Quentin Prison.
Here are those articles
SO by November 1915 he was back home with his family for Thanksgiving. The article where he wrote a thank you was touching.
He had the following siblings
Charles Leroy Johnson
1893–1968
Kenneth Clyde Johnson
1897–1947
Bertie E Johnson
1899–1904
Frank E Johnson
1901–1964
Opal Lola Johnson
1903–1928
Jessie A Johnson
1906–1968
He married 17 Sep 1940 to Margaret V Darling
I found Kenneth's WWI & WWII Draft Cards
In 1922 he was a fireman & in
1940 he was a plasterer.
He died 28 Oct 1947 in Oakland, CA. I did not find an obituary for him, or a Find A Grave Memorial.
As for Delia Fox, I found one article
I believe could be her and this is for 1914 Oakland paper.
This story is really about 2 mother's one who want revenge of some kind for her daughter's lost virtue and the love of a mother for her son.
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