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West Coast Times, 21 April 1911, Page 3

Recently the cables told us briefly that Jack Johnson, the world’s champion pugilist, had been sent to gaol for 25 days for “excessive speeding in his motor car.” Additional information cabled to a Sydney paper states that Johnson conducted his own case, and when the punishment was recorded hy the judge ho appealed. He had been smiling very broadly during the hearing of the police-officer’s evidence, and, incautiously, had pleaded guilty, meanwhile ostentatiously displaying a bum die of notes with which to pay the fnie. When he-heard that he was to go to gaol the smile came right off his face, and his mouth closed with a .snap. Johnson was an extremely mad man for a moment or two. Then he said to | the Judge, “Can I appeal Sir?” “ No,” said the Judge who was’now doing all the smiling. “You conducted your own case and you advised yourself badly. You cannot appeal after pleading guilty. More than that, you have violated all your promises to desist from speeding. Go to gaol.” The coloured pugilist departed from the court a sadder but wiser-man. Arrangements were made by, his wife and other friends to get him special accomnulation at the county gaol, and his food was taken, from his from ■a.n / ->adja.V and water-melons, comprised the major part of Johnston’s diet. The prisoner was released after serving part of his sentence of 25 days on faodav last.

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