CHARGES AGAINST JOHNSTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11510, 7 November 1912, Page 7

CHARGES AGAINST JOHNSTON.

STRONG FEELING AROUSED.

DEPLORABLE REVELATIONS.

The following cable messages relating to,the charges against Jack Johnson were published in the Sydney Suu last week: —

CHICAGO, October 22,

The feeling against Jack Johnson is manifesting itself as strongly as ever. There are people who would shoot the negro or string him up with about as much compunction as they would drown a rat, and knowing this as well as he docs Johnson still keeps himself barricaded within his gorgeous cafe. He is guarded continuously by a dozen kof Chicago's toughest sluggers, but believes that his money will carry him through the storm. The temper of the Chicago people in connection with the abduction scandal was revealed plainly enough yesterday, when an angry crowd hanged a black-faced dummy, to which was attached a placard with the inscription: "This is what Aye '11 do with Johnson." It was a big gathering that had assembled to witness the mock execution, and the dispersal of the mob by the police was followed by a riot. Lucille Cameron, the 19-year-old girl whom Johnsou is alleged to have abducted, reiterates her "undying affection for the negro. She declares that he is "a noble man," and that she will marry him as soon as he is released. i The champion told District Attorney j Wilkinson yesterday that he was prej pared to furnish the £5000 bail requirI ed for the release of Miss Cameron, who is held as a witness under the White I Slave Act, but the offer was refused. :Mr Wilkinson gave Johnson to under- ' stand that he would not approve of ' any bond that the latter might furnish. The Appomatox Club, a negro organisation, calls upon .Jack Johnson to explain what he means by a statement he made to the effect that he could get any white, woman lie wanted. The detectives say that they have ascertained that two other white girls lived at Johnson's apartments previously to his wife's suicide in the early part of last month. Dr Booker T. Washington, the negro Principal of Tuskegec Normal and Industrial Institute for Coloured Students, in referring to Johnsou today, said: "The unfortunate man, with his money, is'injuring his own people, who are 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 subpoenas 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 the sheriff's officers went about their business without heeding the negro or his threats. Several important witnesses who were wanted by the prosecution have disappeared. The police have reported to the Mayor that Johnson's cafe has violated the closing hour law dozens of times. Alderman Gaiger intends to move a resolution iv the City Council, demanding that Johnson's liquor license should be revoked. October 2a. Lucille Cameron appeared before the grand jury yesterday to tell the story of her relations with the 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 the Cour.t unconscious. It is reported that before she fainted she became hysterical, screaming and struggling, until a doctor was summoned, who succeeded in quieting the wretched girl. Judge Carpenter has refused to allow Johnson to testify before the grand jury. Miss Cameron disclosed certain facts which caused the judge to immediately withdraw the subpoena previously issued to Johnston to appear and tell his own story. At the instance of Lucille Cameron's mother a writ has been issued authorising an inquiry into the girl's mental condition. The detectives at work on the case are said to have unearthed evidence of a systematic traffic in white girls to supply the demands of rich negroes and Chinese. The grand jury is now endeavouring to find out what it can about the Narcissus Club, which is said to be composed of negroes with white wives. Reports are current th it Johnson had associations with at least a score of other white women. It is generally understood that a strong' effort will be made to ski>A the 1.1-c'k fellow to i'or a. iong term, and fo drive him out of public life for ever. October 24. .Johnson is gradually being made to realise the enormity of his misdoing's, 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 the way of condemnation. He 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 all 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 which it is believed will get Johnson a long term of penal servitude has been furnished by his brother, Charles, and has been corroborated by a mulatto girl. The evidence 18 said to be sufficient to send a score of other negroes to gaol for their complicity in the white slave traffic. Charles Johnsou is reported to have said that his brother Was in the habit of taking white girls with him in his private c.:ir when making theatrical trips, and lie surrounded himself with girls at his training camps'. Among these girls literature was circulated of a kind that was calculated to interest them in tVso negroes. Charles has further admitted that Jack .had been expecting trouble, and that prior to his arrest he cxc -uted a deed under which he convened £4000 worth of property to his mother. Johnson's chaffeur also has supnlie I details" of various motor journeys in which the negro was accompanied' by white gn Is. A horde of messengers from Johnson's lawyers made despovt" but unavailing attempts last right to tea.-I: 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. Washington, October 2;j. The negroes here have repudiated Johnson. They denounce the mating of whites and black as inharmonious. The moral of the present scandal that negro mothers are urged to heed is that they thould encourage their children to be satisfied with their own colour, and people.