Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-08
REVENGE OF GIRL
INDICTS JOHNSON
Testimony of Woman Before
Unknown in Case Results
in a Jury Bill.


day by the federal grand jury on a
charge of white slavery. 1t was only |
after strenuous endeavors by his at !
toraeys that he was saved from spend |
ing the night behind the bars of the
county :sil.
Belle Schrieber. an old-time white
sweetheart of Johnson's, is his latest
nemesis. She has heretofore not been
mentioned in his troubles. She was
discarded to make way for Eta John
son, who fired a bullet into her brain
recently.
Johnson was released at IL o'clock
last night after being arrested by the
police and taken TO the federal build
irg. He had been started, handcuffed,
for jail, when his attorneys said they
had reached Judge Lands and that he
had agreed to approve $4,000 bond.
Johnson took the officers in a taxicab
to the home OF his mother, Mrs. Tina
Johnson, who scheduled $4,000 worth
Of real estate, and thence the party
went to Judge Lands home where the
bond was approved.
The indictment voted against John
son charges that he brought the Schrie-
Der woman from Pittsburgh, Pa, to
Chicago on Aug. 10, 1910, for immoral
purposes. She is said to have posed
as Mrs. John Arthur Johnson" John
son denies his guilt.
The Schrieber woman is rs years
old and a brunette. Her father, car
penter, lives with his family at Ninth
street and Grand avenue, Milwaukee.
The woman was at one time mani
cdrist at the Plankington hotel in Mil
Waukee. Later she travelled with bur-
lesque show which BAT" Nelson was
travelling with. Johnson is said to have
met her at that time. In February,
1910. the negro and she went TO Mil
Waukee together and stayed at the st.
Charles hotel. They told the girls
parents they were married.
When Johnson was training for his
Reno fight with Jeffries, George Little,
! then his manager, is said to have be-
come incensed at the womans break
ing training and to have struck her
over the head with a bass violin. She
| left the camp. Later Johnson is said
! to have made up with her. A short
time afterward, however, he became in
yolved in an imbroglio with her at De-
troit, Mich, and is said to have kicked
her and to have torn the diamond ear
rings out of her ears.
1t was this last happening and his
marriage a short time later which
brought the threat from the woman
! trat she would get Jack Johnson"
| She made this threat to relatives at
| Milwaukee. Before the Reno episode
she is said to have been an inmate of
the notorious "Everleigh Club" in Chi
cago's red light" district which Mayor
Harrison closed.
Lucille Cameron, the white sweet
heart of Johnson. who became attach
cd to the champion after his wife,
Eta, had committed suicide, is being
| held without bond as a witness against
him. Fifteen thousand dollars bond
which was offered Judge X NJ. Lands
/ by David B. and Max Weber TOR her
release last night was refused on the
grounds that she had said she intended
leaving Chicago.
Her mother, Mrs. F. Cameron-Fal-
comet of Minneapolis, accompanied her
back to the county Jail at Rockford last
night where she is being kept
The indictment was returned to the
grand jury TO Judge Lands shortly be-
fore o'clock. Two hours before that
time special agents of the department
OF justice had been sent out TO locate
the champion. They were armed with
a warrant sworn out before United
States Commissioner Charles A. Buell..
Information had also been sent to all
South Side police stations to search
for him.
AT the Cafe de Champion, Johnson's
notorious saloon which was closed re-
Gently, the agents, under Bert Myers,
found the place barricaded with num-
Der of negroes on guard. Attempts to
gain entrance were Intellectual. After
darkness had fallen Johnson escaped
through a rear entrance and jumped
Into a big racing automobile and tore
away. The agents in taxicab gave
chase but were soon outdistanced
Shortly after O'Clock Lieutenant
Grady of the Cottage Grove avenue po
Ice station learned that he had sought
refuge in the Vendome hotel, 245C
South State street, little hotel patron
tied by negroes. He sent four detec
tives with Agent Myers to the place
They found Johnson, with five mem
bers of his bodyguard, occupying two
rooms. The place was fitted out with
q telephone and there johnson had
planned to camp until things blew
over"
4 Guess there isn't any chance" waG
Johnson's greeting to the officers al
1 they entered, when his bodyguard as
sumed a threatening attitude.
Where could Jack Johnson hide
Nowhere. I'll come along"
He was taken TO the police station
aud there was met by Deputy Marshall
Ed Northrup and Charles Donovan wht
read the bench warrant to him. The!
then went to the department of justic,
office in the federal building, the body
guard trailing along behind.
Johnson was much perturbed at frs
o. when Judge Lands couldn't be reach
ed.
I'll give $4,000 cash bond in tn
morning" he told Harry Parkin, as
sistant district attorney. SOL Lewis