The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-12
Shoots Herself While Maids
Placed to Watch Her
Are RemiSs.
CHAMPION is FRANTIC
Big Pugilist Sweeps Aside
Hospital Attendants to
See His Wife.
= International News Service.

| BY International News Service.
| CHICAGO, Sept 11,-Mrs. Eta. john
son, wife OF Jack Johnson. the champion
pugilist, and former society belle OF
Hampstead. l.. L, where as the wife OF
Clarence r. Duryca, society leader and
horseman. she held the key TO Ions
Island society, tonight shot herself fol-
| lowing IN attack OF nervous prostratlon.
West Thirty-first street. She died a few
hours later.
The bullet entered at the right temple
and came out at the left temple. AT
midnight, after an operation at the Provl-
dent hospital hope for her recovery was
abandoned and the Rev. John S. Morris
Of st, Monicas Catholic church admins
tered the extreme JUNCTION, Johnson was
at his wIfe's side crying like a child as
the churchman solemnly read the last
service
Once Society Leader.
AS the wife OF Clarence +. Duryea of
Hampstead. Mrs. Johnson had the entree
TO the exclusive Meadowbrook Hunt club.
to which such persons as Mrs, Alfred
Vanderbilt. Mrs. James Kernochan. Mrs.
Tom Pierce, Mrs. Oliver W. Bird. Mrs,
]. v. R Kennedy. Foxhall Keene. John
z Cowdin and others in the colony be-
longed-
Remorse for having left her place in
the exclusive Long Island society colony
TO become the wife OF the worlds cham
pion prize fighter and TO associate herself
with those OF his race, Is the cause TO
which her act ultimately can be traced,
according to her close friends. For more
than q year she has suffered from severe
nervous prostretion. brought on, II rs be-
leved, by the realization that she was
forever barred from the world which she
voluntarily left In the latter part OF June.
1910. An exile, she chose the one way
ont. as she saw *.
Was to Have Taken Trip.
Mrs. johnson was to leave for Las Ve-
gas. N. NJ, tonight with Edward Smith.
sporting editor Of the Chicago American,
who with his wife WAS bound for that
town, where his sister is reported to be
dying. It waa believed that the altitude
would help Mrs. Johnson's health.
Just before she was TO start for the
train she was seized with a relapse and
Johnson was downtown telling Smith of
his wifes inability to go when she shot |
herself.
When johnson returned To the fat and |
learned OF his wifes removal to the Prov |
ident hospital. he raced away in his mo-
tor car. Breaking through the line OF
attendants into the operating room, where
his wife lay, he threw his arms about her |
MY little pal" he said. you amt go
ing 70 take the count. are you?"
Later. when hope for her recovery WAS
abandoned, johnson ordered the nurse
from his wifes room and refused admit
tance to every one,
Night Life Sings On.
'T want TO be alone with Eta" he said.
The cafe over which the shooting took
place was reopened after Mrs. Johnson
had been removed to the hospital and WAS
soon crowded with men and women who
discussed the affair over wine and
lunches. The usual gaiety OF tho place
flowed on. the orchestra played the same
bright airs that Mrs. Johnson had so Of
ten listened to. and the slngara sang as