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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1928, Page 1

A PAIR OF .TACKS. NEWARK, (New Jersey) Nov. 23. One of a pair of Jacks called the other a knave to-day and the ensuing uproar completely obliterated—at least, for the time being—the action for £GG,6G6 damages brought against Jack Dempsey the former heavyweight champion, hv Jack Kearns, his ertswhile manager, for alleged breach of contract. After counsel for Kearns had charged Dempsey' and his lawyers with deliberately “framing” the court, and Tex Rickard, the promoter, with having boasted that lie had the case “in (he hag,” both sides agreed to end the trial in a “voluntary non-suit”— a. polite form of mistrial carrying no connotation of guilt. Dempsey’s lawyers declared that Kearns bad unintentionally “got himself up a salt creek without a paddle,” and would have a bard time getting back “into the legal stream.” The hearing, though brief, was punctuated by shouts, threats, taunts, tears, and tirades, on several occasions physical conflict being narrowly averted. When counsel made a charge of a most direct character against Tex Rickard, the latter jumped to his feet and shouted: “You are a contemptible liar!” Everyone present seemed stunned by the suddenness and gravity of the charges, and Rickard's friends were obliged to pull him down into his chair. The boxing promoter was still (Hither enraged by counsel’s reference to “his (Rickard’s) sinister shadow which has been cast over the court room in such a. manner that the jury tampering in the Fnll-Sinclair trial smells like attar of roses.”

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