CHARGES AGAINST JOHNSON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15603, 5 November 1912, Page 8

CHARGES AGAINST JOHNSON.

STRONG FEELING AROUSED,

DEPLORABLE REVELATIONS,

The following cable massages relating to Hie charges agauu>t Jack Johnson wore published in tho Sydney Sun List week :— Chicago, October 22.

The ioeliiig against jack Johnson u maiiiietiUng iu>en as strongly as ever, There are people who woum shoot the negro or String liiin tip with about as much compunction its tuey would drown a rat, and knowing this as well as ho does Johnson still keeps himself barricaded within Ins gorgeous cafe. he ui guarded continuously uy a dozen of Chicago's toughest sluggers, but believes that his money will carry him through the storm. Tho temper of the Chicago peoplo in connection with tile abduction scandal wa« revealed plainly enough yesterday, when an angry crowd hanged a blackfaced dummy, to which whs attached a placard with tho inscription: "This is what we'll do with Johnson." It was,a big gathering tint lind assembled to witness the mock execution, and the dispersal of tho mob by the police was followed by a riot.

Lucille Cameron, tho 19-year-old girl whom Johnson is alleged to liave abducted, reiterates Iter undying affection for tho negro. She declares that ho is "a noblo man," and that she will marry him as soon as h« is released. The champion told District Attorney Wilkinson yesterday that he was prepared to furnish the £SfXO bail required tor the release of Miss, Cameron, who is held as a witness under the White Slave Act, but tho offer was refused. Mr Wilkinson gave Johnson to understand that be would not approve of any bond that the latter might furnish. Tlie Appomatox Club, a negro organisation, calk upon Jack Johnson to explain what lie means by a statement he mado to the effect that he could get any white woman ho wanted. The detectives say that they have ascertained that two other white gills lived at Jolinson's apartments previously to his wife's suicide in tho early part of last month. Dr Hooker T. Washington, the negro Principal of Tuskcgeo Normal and Industrial Institute for Coloured Students, in referring to Johnson to day, said : " The unfortunate man,' with his money, is injuring his own people, who arc seeking to uplift themselves. Johnson's action will certainly not meet with the approval of the coloured race. When the sheriffs, with the lawyer representing Mrs Cameron, went to Johnson's cafe yesterday afternoon to serve subpeenas upon his mother and nine of his employees, the champion became a bit violent. " Throw the lawyer out, or I'll kill him!" shouted Johnson, but tho sheriff's officers went about their business without heeding the negro or his threats. Several important witnesses who wort wanted by tho prosecution havo disappeared.

The police have reported to the Mayor; that Johnson's cafe has violated the clos ing hour law dozens of times. Alderman Uaiger intends to move a resolution in tho City Council, demanding that Johnson's liquor license should bo revoked. October 23.

Lucille Cameron appeared bofore Iho grand jury yesterday to tell the story of her relations with tlw 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 site becamo hysterical, screaming aud struggling, until a doctor was 6unimoiied, who succeeded in quioting tho wretched girl. Judge Carpenter has refused to allow Johnson to testify beforo the grand jury. Miss Cameron disclosed certain facte which caused the judgo immediately to withdraw the subpoena, previously issued to Johnson to appear and tell his own story. At the instance of Lucillo Cameron's mother a writ has been issued authorising an inquiry into tlie girl's mental condition.

The detectives at work on the case are said to have unearthed evidence of a 6ystomatic traffic in white girls- to supply tho demands of rich negroes and Chinese. The grand jury w now endeavouring to find out what it can about the Narcissus Club, which is said to bo composed of negroes with white wives. Reports arecurrent that Johnson hn<l associations witn at loast a .score of other white women. It is generally understood that a strong effort will be rsade to send the blackfellow to gaol for a long torm, and to drive him out of public life for ever. October 24. Johnson is gradually being mado to realise tho enormity of his misdoings, and the general reprobation with which they have met. lie now finds that his conduct lias provoked hostility in quarters from which he least expected anything in the way of condemnation. He has already been repudiated by tho people of his own race and colour, and now the boxing world itself is up against him. Willi the possible exception of Paris, tlio champion has been boycotted by the leading light, promoters in all the boxing centres of the world. American promotem ure unanimous in llioir determination never to engage him again.

Testimony which it is believed will get Johrson a long term of penal servi'udo lias boon furnished by his own brother, Charles, and tins been corroborated by a mulatto girl. The evidence is said U> he sufficient to semi n score of other negroes to gaol for tlicir complicity in tho wliito slave traffic. Charles Johnson is reported to have said that his brother was in tho habit of taking white girls with him in his privato car when making theatrical trips, and that he always surrounded himself with girls at his training camps. Among these girls literature was circulated of a kind that was calculated to interest them in tho negroes. Charles has further admitted that Jack had bacn expecting trouble, and tliat prior to his arrest ho executed a deed under which Iks conveyed £4000 worth of property to his mother. Johnson's chauffeur also !ias supplied details of various motor journeys iu which tlie negro was accom[>anied by white girls. A horde of messengers from Johnson's lawyers made desperate but unavailing attempts bust night to reach Lucille Cameron, the girl whom the black is charged with having nMuctcd. Miss Cameron, it is reported, wants to go homo to her mother. She is quite ready to give up the negro. Washington, October 23. The negroes here have repudiated Johnson. They denounce the mating of whites and black as inharmonious. Tlio moral of the present scandal that negro mothers aro urged to heed is that they should encourage their children to be satisfied with their own colour and people.