The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
Negro Fighter Charged With
Abducting White Girl.
Mother and Daughter Hysteri-
cal After Night in Jail.
WHITE WOMEN LOVE HIM
johnson Says He Can't Prevent
Their Doing 1t.
Negro Declares He Can sect"
Any White Woman.

Chicago, Oct. 1S.-Jack johnson
the negro heavyweight champion
pugilist, was charged with abductlne
Miss Lucille Cameron, 10 years old, II
Il warrant sworn out by the girl:
mother Mrs. F. CamerOn-FalcOnet OF
Minneapolis today
Mrs Cameron-Falconet appeared
with an attorney before Municipa
Il Judge Wells who signed the warrant
The mother became historical wher
she faced her daughter In the ponce
4 station.
Il would rather see you spend al
your life in Jail than one day in the
| company of that negro" Mrs. Cam
on-Falconet cried
! The girl broke down and threw bel
| arms around her mother.
! Counsel representing Johnson at
tempted to see Miss Cameron but his
| request was denied.
| desperate uncertainty of choice, lean
ing one moment toward her yearning,
! aeartbroken mother, then turning to
| The giant black figure of jack John
| SON. negro pugilist, as he leered indif-
ferently upon the scene-that was the
picture, revolving even to cauoused
policemen, which was presented In the
police station.
The girl had wavered, thought at
years old, blonde, pretty enough to
attract special attention in crowd.
The woman was Mrs. r Cameron
Falconet of Minneapolis, a mother
seeking to draw her daughter away
from the influences J hat seemed to
have oVerpowered her in the pugilist' S
cafe.
The girl had wavered, thought at
first she might return to Ter mother,
hen decided in favor of the negro,
who had been all the while smiling in
anticipation of his triumph.
And finally the mother, playing des-
DerateIy her last card, had preferred
formal charge against her daughter,
he charge of disorderly conduct-any-
I'll k1,.@
lack man. Immediately the girl was
arrested.
Jack Johnson was beaten for the
moment The nhe offered % give bail
had no sympathy for the prize fighter.
You can't give bail now. Miss Cam
eron is not booked yet" said the Off
Ger. And what is more, she will not
be booked at present"
Il have humbled my pride before
that-that man''-cried Mrs. Falconet.
"And ne has only laughed at me-in-
suited me For the sake of my daugh-
ter 1 called him up. He said he would
see me, he would send an automobile
for me. Instead of sending it, he
brought it, big limousine.
4 begged him to give up my daugh-
ter, to let me rescue her. He said
he wouldn't. And then he looked a t
me closely with a look that 1 hope
never to see again and he said, 1
1t was in response to the pleadings
of Mrs Falconet that the characters
in that police station scene We're
brought together. Captain Nootbar
called up Jack Johnson at his glitter
ing resort and said to him:
4 want to see you and Miss Cameron
here right away"
johnson came and so did the girl.
She seemed on the verge of nervous
prostration with the strain she has
undergone, love for her mother and
the old homelife drawing her in one
and tearing the other way.
At the final moment both mother and |
daughter were hysterical and the po-
lice officers were finding reasons to
look the other way, while Johnson
stood stolid as a statue, waiting, con-
fdent.
There's only one thing you can do"
advised Captcin Nootbar. Make a |
and lock your daughter up. |
Mono" screamed the mother. And
then to her daughter she pleaded. You
won't make me do that?"
But the girl seemed powerless crazed |
The mother consented to make the
charge.
''MotherY' cried Lucille. '"You'Se going |
to lock me up like-like a common
woman! You can't surely you can't DO |
that. You wouldn't do that-you !
wouldn't"
But it was done and Jack Johnson
went away cowing that he would get |
hail. They could not hold the girl lone !
without booking her, he said, and when |
they do book her well he would have |
no difficulty giving any bond that might |
be demanded. The girl. johnson said. |
ha@ been living at Jack Curley's 4243
Sheridan Road. Johnson denied that ne
hao been more than a friend to her
''She was a cashier in my cafe" said
the pugilist and she merely left +here
to get another position. That's all
there is to it These stories about her
being the cause of my wife's suicide are
baseless. My wife never saw her,
And Mrs. Falconet merely groaned
"Oh, don't 1 know" she said. Would
to God I did not Would to God I were
wrong. My daughter has been wearing
the jewels that belonged to this black
mans former wife She showed them
to me and told me whose they were"
Johnson was arrested at his home in !
West Thirty-first street and taken in !
a tstxicab to the city hall station, whele /
he was booked and then released to ar I
rrnge a bail bond of $500. johnson was |
furious at his arrest.
The pugiiist demanded to see Miss |
Cameron and procure her release Oh /
ball. but his request was refused.
DEATHS and FUNERALS.