Juanita, a Spanish woman also known as Josefa, was hanged from the Jersey Bridge on July 5, 1851, a short distance downstream from this spot, for the murder of Frederick Alexander Agustus Cannon. Cannon and his friends were celebrating Independence Day, and after closing most of the saloons they passed Jose and Josefa’s cabin. He broke the door down, though history did not tell what happened. The next morning he returned, supposedly to apologize. An argument followed, and Josefa stabbed Cannon fatally in the heart. After a mob trial, she was sentenced to death. Josefa climbed the scaffold without the least trepidation and placed the rope around her own neck. Her last words were, “I would do the same again if I was so provoked.”