Was the Old New London Jail Haunted After a Hanging in the Spring of 1902?
On the night of April 28, 1902, a well-respected Rensselaer, Missouri citizen, husband and father of two was murdered on the doorstep of his store by Jesse Johnson.
Johnson, a 24-year-old young black man from Monroe City, worked on a farm near Rensselaer and traded at McRae’s store frequently...