Details of the Oct. 15, 1899, shooting were recited again in 1942 in St. Louis Circuit Court. By then, the world knew that Britt had done his woman wrong. Songwriters changed his name to the catchier Johnnie when they published the ballad of "Frankie and Johnnie."
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