A BLACK SATYR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10494, 4 November 1912, Page 6

A BLACK SATYR.

Chicago, October 28. Jack Johnson is gradually being made to realise the enormity of his misdoings, .and the general reprobation with which they have met. He now finds that his conduct has provoked hostility in quarters from which he least expected anything in te. ; ,,way of condemnation. dfle has already-been repudiated by the people of his own race and colour, and now the boxing world itself is up against him. With the possible exception of Paris, the champion has been boycotted by the leading fight promoters in all the boxing centres of the world. American- promoters are unanimous in their determination never to engage him again. Testimony it believed will get Johnson a long' term of penal servitude has been furnished by his own brother, Charles, and has been corroborated by a mulatto girl. The evidence is said to be sufficient to send a score of other negroes to gaol for their complicity in the white slave traffic.

Charles Johnson is reported to have said that his brother was in the habit of taking white girls with him in his private car when making theatiical 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 the negroes. Charles has further admitted that Jack had been expecting trouble, and that prior to- his arrest he • executed a deed under which he conveyed £4OOO worth of property to his mother.

Johnson’s chauffeur also lias-sup-plied details of various motor journeys in which the negro was accompanied by white girls. A horde of messengers from Johnson’s lawyers made desperate but unavailing attempts to reach Lucille Cameron, the girl whom the black is charged with having abducted. Miss Cameron, it .is reported, wants to go home to.;* her mother. She is quite ready to give up the negro.