JACK JOHNSON MISSING.
GONE AND LEFT NO TRACE. WANTED BY THE POLICE. By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright. (Received November 8, 10.40 ji.in.) New York, November 8. Jack Johnson, who was charged in Chicago with abducting a 19-year-old girl named Lucille Cameron, has now been indicted on a charge of a breach i of the immoral traffic regulations. ! Johnson is missing and the policeare unable to trace him. I i I
Jack Johnson when brought up on the abduction chargo was released on bail of £300. Recent reports stated that a squad of detectives were guarding his cafe owing to the indignation against him in Chicago. After the first hearing of the case in Court a howling mob gathered round his motor car, and the threats against the negro became so violent that he was obliged to enlist tho services of six strong men as a sort of bodyguard. These men had a strenuous time" of it fighting an opening through the crowd. Johnson was thoroughly scared, and with a hunted, frightened look on his face he finally pulled up at a bank, and, gaining the interior of tho building, left it by a back door.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 7
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