John Johnson commits suicide at Mount Pleasant
from the New Jersey Mirror, 27 Mar 1867 A negro man named John Johnson, committed suicide at Mount Pleasant, Monmouth couty, by taking strychnine, on Sunday morning, the 17th inst., at about six o'clock. He seemed to be laboring under a fit of melancholy induced by jealousy, and told a friend they would not be troubled with him long, and gave directions where he wished to be buried, if he died.