JOHNSON ARRESTED.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 28 October 1912, Page 7

JOHNSON ARRESTED.

JUS LITTLE LOVE AFFAIR

A STENOGRAPHER'S AFFEC-

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LONDON. October 23. Jack Johnson, ihe world's champion heavyweight pugilist, has been arrested ?n Chicago on a charge of abducting a white girl.

The young lady's name is Lucille Cameron, aged 19, and she Was employed at Johnson's glorified hash-house *in Chicago.

Sh« "disappeared a little while ago, and her relatives and friends have been searching for her ever since; Misq Cameron is a Minneapolis girl, and tho information against the black fighter is sworn by her mother. Johnson was furious at beini? arrested, and more furious when ho had tn stay in a cell until bail could bo arranged. Ho was let out under a bond of .■£l6o.

When the mother appealed to the police a rigid search was made, but for several days no success met the efforts or the officers.

Mrs. Cameron (or Mrs. Falconet, as ' she is better known) has described how «no failed to get her daughter away from tho influence.of the negro. She told of her anguish when she found that the girl was keeping company with Johnson, and she made one trip to the cafo to try to rescue tho erring one. : When she interviewed the pugilist she • declares that she was flouted and insult-

"I asked him," said the mother, "to givo up tho girl, saying to him, 'You can get any woman you want; for God's sako let my daughter go!' " * "I also pleaded with Lucille, asking her l- return home or go anywhere, and promising that I would shield her rrom criticism. But the girl refused to break off her relations with Johnson. Next tho mother telephoned to Johnson, "and," went on Mrs. Falconet, "ho sp.kl ho would send his automobile for me. He came with it himself, and when I got in I drew the blinds so that l should not bo seen. This nettled hi n, and ho said. 'Some of the best white women in Chicago ride in this car.' I asked him onco more to return my daughter, but ho said that ho would not.

1 hen I rode to a house in Sheridan Road, whore my e;irl was staying. She wept, and said that she had gono too far to go back, and that Johnson had promised to give every dollar he possessed to hold her."

Johnson issued p. statement last night, in which ho said: "I can't help it if white women become infatuated with me. If Miss Cameron loves me, that's her business and nlhie. She has been my stenographer for the last month. and she a,sked mo whether I would take her with mo to Australia.

"I don't intend to tako her, but as f*ho has money of her own she may get a notion into her head to follow me.

"Surely you can't blame me for that. I wouldn't take her if I wasn't married to her. She can choose whoever ahs wishes, but I shall marry no one."