Prosecution Witnesses
Nevada Taylor (rape victim)
Will Hixson (man who claims to have seen Johnson with strap)
Defense Witnesses
Ed Johnson (defendant)
Harvey McConnell (man who had conversation with Will Hixson that casts doubt on Hixon's identification)
The Trial of Sheriff Shipp et al.
Prosecution Witnesses
Edward Chaddick (manager of telegraph company)
Ellen Baker (jail inmate)
John L. Chivington (reporter for Chattanooga Times)
Joe Franklin (constable)
Dr. Howard Jones (minister and eyewitness)
Julia Wofford (Shipp family cook)
John Stonecipher (regarding conversations with conspirators)
A. J. Ware (justice of peace and eyewitness to lynching)
Defense Witnesses
Jeremiah Gibson (night jailer and defendant)
Sheriff Joseph Shipp (defendant)
Luther Williams (defendant)
Summations & Sentencing
Judson Harmon (summation for Shipp)
Attorney General Charles Bonaparte (summation for government)