JOHNSON ARRESTED

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 7 November 1912, Page 7

JOHNSON ARRESTED

HIS LOVE AFFATR. A STENOGRAPHER'S AFFEC- • TTONS. Jack Johnson the world's champion heavyweight pugilist, has been arrested in Chicago on a charge of abducting a. white girl. Tlio young lady's name is Lucille Cuneron, aged 10,.and she- was employed at Johnson's glorified h&shhouso in Chicago. She disappeared a little while ago, and her relatives and friends have been searching for her ever since-. Miss Cameron is a Minneapolis girl, and the information against tho blackfighter is sworn by her mother. Johnson was furious at being arrested, and more furious when ho had lUi stay in a cell until bail could 1 bo arranged. He was let out under a bond of £l6O. When the mother appealed to tho police a rigid search wsw* made, but for several days no success met their efforts. Mrs Cameron {or Mrs Falconet,' as she is better known) has described how she failed to get her daughter away from' the influence of the negro. Sho told of her anguish when she found' that tho girl was keeping company with Johnson, and she made one trip to, the cafe to-try-to .resc : Utvth«. erring. one.. When she intervie.wed the pug-, ilist shd declared that she> was flouted and insulted. "1 asked him," said tho mother, "to give up the girl, saying to him, "You can get any woman you want; for God's sake let my. daughter go!" "I also pleaded with Lucille, asking her to return home or go anywhere, ( iind promising that I would shield her from criticism. But the girl refused to break off her relations with Johnson. Next the mother telephoned to Johnson, "and!' went on Mrs FalcorietU "he said he ; tv»UkLsendliLs-automobile., for me. He came with it himself, and ' when I got in I drew the blinds so j that f should not be seen. This nettled | him, :uid he 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 he would not. "Then I rode to a house in Sheridan Eoad where my girl was staying. She wept, and said that she had gone too , far to go back, and that Johnson had promised to give every dollar he possessed to hold her." t Johnson issued a, statement Last night, in which he said; "I can't help it.if white women become infatuated with me. If Miss Cameron loves that is her business and mine-. S'he has been my stenographer for tho la-st month, and .she asked me to take hex with ma to Australia. "I don't intend to take her, hilt as she his money of her own she may follow me. "Surely you can't blame me for that because I wouldn't take her if I was not married to her. She can choose whoever she wishes, but T shall marry nro'no."" • " r