“LYNCH HIM!”

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

“LYNCH HIM!”

FEELING mm JOHNSON CHASED BY HOWLING MOB. GETS AWAY AGAIN BY BACK DOOR. WANTS “TO MARRY THE GIRL.” (Per Independent Cable Service.) CHICAGO, October 22. Jack Johnson was the central figure of some exciting scenes yesterday. In the morning he was brought before one of the city courts on the charge of having abducted Lucille Cameron, the 19-year-old girl who was employed as a stenographer at his cafe. The hearing was not proceded with, a postponement for ten days being granted to enable the police to collect the necessary evidence.

Public opinion has been greatly inflamed against Johnson, and his appearance on the streets was greeted with cries of “Kill him!” “Lynch him!’ A howling mob gathered around his motor car, and the threats against the negro became so violent that he was obliged to enlist the services of six strong men as a sort of bodyguard. These men had a strenuous time of it fighting an opening through the crowd for the champion. Johnson fully realised the earnestness of the crowd, and what it would do to him if it got half a chance. The fellow was thoroughly scared, and with a hunted, frightened look on his face lie finally pulled up at a bank, and, gaining the interior of the building, was safe for a time at least from the angry mob by which he was being followed. The crowd waited for the negro to make his re-appearance, but Johnson was not having any more of that sort of tiling, and discreetly, if not valorously, quitted the bank by a back door, I( was not without considerable trouble that Johnson secured bail, although the amount had been fixed at only £3OO, and it was not until he employed professional bondsmen'that he was given his liberty. The champion new declares that he intends to marry Miss Cameron- He says that he has loved the girl ever since he first saw her.

The authorities are holding the gild as a witness under the White Slave Act. but Johnson is endeavouring to secure her release. Mrs. Cameron has made a request that inquiry should be held to determine, whether her daughters perfectly sane.

Johnson - reported to the police today that he had received letters threatening him with death by dynamite. A special squad of detectives is now guarding the negro’s cafe.

The indignation with, which the women folk in Chicago regard Jack Johnson’s conduct, as revealed by the abdaction charge pending against him, is finding full expression in the movement now' in progress among the women’s clubs to have the negro driven out of the city.

GRAND JURY’S INVESTIGATION. LUCILLE CAMERON TELLS HER STORY. GIRL COMPLETELY COLLAPSES. CARRIED OUT OP COURT UNCONSCIOUS. CHICAGO, October 24. Lucille Cameron, the girl whose alleged abduction by Jack Johnson has aroused such a storm of indignation, appeared before the Grand Jury yesterday to tell the story of her relations with the negro. It was a dreadful ordeal to which the girl was called upon to submit, and she had not proceeded far with her shameful narrative before she swooned, and was carried out of court unconscious. It is reported that before she fainted she became hysterical, screaming and struggling, until a doctor was summoned, who succeeded in quieting the wretched girl.

Judge Carpenter has refused to allow Johnson to testify before the Grand Jury. Miss Cameron disclosed certain facts which caused the judge immediately to withdraw the subpoena previously issued to Johnson to appear and tell his own story. At the instance of Lucille Cameron’s mother a writ has been issued authorising an inquiry into the girl’s mental condition. AN INFAMOUS TRAFFIC. WHITE GIRLS FOR RICH NEGROES AND CHINESE. DRIVING JOHNSON OUT OF PUBLIC LIFE. CHICAGO, October 21. The detectives at work on'the Johnson case are said to have unearthed evidence of a systematic traffic in white girls to supply the demands of rich negroes and Chinese. The Grand Jury is now endeavoring to find out what it can about the Narcissus Club, which is said to be composed of negroes with white wives. - Reports are current that Johnson had associations with at least a score of other white women. It is generally understood that a strong effort will bo mad* to send the blaokfellow to gaol for a long term, and to drive him out of public life for ever. WHITES AND BLACKS. “INHARMONIOUS” UNION. WASHINGTON, October 24, The negroes here have repudiated Johnson.

They denounce the mating of whites and black as ’ inharmonious. The moral of the present scandal that negro mothers are urged to heed is that they should encourage their children to be satisfied with their pwn color and