White male deputy sheriff John Oscar Johnson, 45, met his end on November 20, 1931, in the Gadsden area after walking into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era moonshining on Sand Mountain. The surviving online accounts describe him as an Etowah County officer who was investigating an illicit whiskey operation when he surprised the men involved and was shot to death. In the spare, almost haunting way old cases are often remembered, the story comes down to a lawman stepping into the wrong clear
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