The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-27
No ''COPS'' WHERE
JOHNSON TRAINS
World Must Suffer on Account
of New York Police
Force.
CHAMPION TELLS HOW
HE FELT BEHIND BARS
Will Give Gotham Wide Berth in
Future; No Place for
Frisky Man.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.


NEW YORK, March 26.-Jack Johnson.
the champion heavyweight pugilist, who
is at liberty on $500 bond to answer n
charge of assault upon another negro,
Norman Pinder In this city. has decided
not TO visit Gotham again unless the
case is one OF absolute necessity. before
ne meets James ]. Jeffries in the ring
on July 4. next. Johnson believes he can
not visit New York without getting into
trouble. Before leaving for Chicago, the
dusky pugIlist gave his version of how
II feels to spend three hours in n cell and
how 1t feels TO be arraigned before a
Judge AS Johnson has been arrested
more than ten times ne can speak upon
this subject with authority His story
follows:
BY JACK JOHNSON.
New York IS mighty good town 10
get away from, For n man who likes
excitement and the uncertainty OF free
dom IL is all right. l have been arrested
IN the United states and Canada but 1
am n comparatively young man, Give
me chance and l Will win the houors
yet,
This week l came into New York to
face charge of assault preferred by an
other colored man named Norman Pinder
who thinks | attacked him In Baron
Wilken's place up town. Why. Pinder is
little man and II l had really hit him
] would be answering a charge OF murder,
When i stepped into court on Wednes-
day ] did not feel that l stood in any
immediate danger of detention "a word ]
heard my attorney. Mr. Nugent. use). I
had $4,000 In my pocket in currency and
| felt as happy as lark. Well, ] had
some legal expenses TO meet and a few
other little debts and after the judge had
refused my cash bail thought It all right
TO cut into the bale. My lawyer told me
few dollars-something like five hundred.
guess.
Up Against It,
Il was feeling mighty frisky, Jus,
like a Georgia darky loose In a water
melon patch. When the judge refused 10
take four Brooklyn lots as bail and my
roll had struck beneath the bail stage.
| saw / was up against 1t.
Then they put me in cell II was
a pretty good cell. but no cell ever built
been feeling so good IL kind Of took the
wind out of my sails. III swear / could
not keep from bawling. | sat down on a
bench and cried Ike a baby.
tendants who all were anxious TO see me
and they kept going back and forth
through the corridor looking at me till
felt like monkey In. zoo. But | kind
something bad was going 10 happen.
When that judge looked me in the eye
and said: Mr.. Johnson, this bail won't do.
l knew there was going TO be something
doing mighty soon. / didn't have my
rabbit foot with me, When a man feels
the iron door bang and looks out OF n
window screened In iron bars he gets
about ten years older In ten minutes.
Just guess that it is about the worst feel
ing that can happen.
"Well, I'm glad everything is fixed
up now and ] can shake n hoof out of this
town. I'll be here with gongs on when
IL comes time TO stand trial and after
being locked up IL makes me feel little
nervous TO think of the torture.
but as my old father used TO say
Never lose heart until the sentence
is pronounced
II guess It's me for the training camp
and no policemen Will be admitted