The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-12
Jack Johnson's White Wife Fires
Bullet Into Her Brain Early
This Morning and Dies
Later.
FORMER SOCIETY WOMAN
Champions Wife Was Formerly the
Wife Of Clarence Duryea, New
York Horseman and Wealthy
clubman.

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I CHICAGO. sept. IA little more
than two years ago, Eta Duryea, d.
yorced wife of Clarence Duryea, mil.
lionaire New York horseman, married
black man, the champion pugilist
lof modern times. Despite the plead
ing of her family and friends she be-
came Mrs. Jack Johnson. Today she
lies in the Provident hospital, dead
by her own hand.
/ Dismissing her maids last night
with the injunction that they pray
for her." Mrs. johnson went to her
rooms above her husbands new cafe
the Cafe De Champion At two o'clock
this morning late jewellers were alarm
ed by the sound of a shot. Rushing
Iup stairs they discovered the pug
lists wife unconscious on the floor,
q bullet in her brain. She was rush
| ed 10 the hospital and died without
lregaining consciousness.
Eta Duryea was for six years the
wife of Clarence Duryea. wealthy club
man of New York City and Long
Island In the spring of 1910 she got
i. divorce, the decree being signed by
Judge Cooper. in Chicago Duryea
frss then IL the Adirondacks, being
traaEs5 FOR tuberculosis. A few
En1ras later she married Johnson
TIE first bitter fruits Of the inter
srzcza Ea--.zza came when her
E-5s-.ts II -saa east soczasgy ostracized
as- Tex ss-e zansher shock With
t1I -ezE5zazbaz os the fo-s3oGings OF
ar t-s=1z-s znz tz-slr. After his
-e1szzz1 u tas Easae rare. Johnson
sE5lz & -azzzzzl ao-e On Wabash
zvsgs z-1 szssEle5 his wife and
EEz-zsg 1@re TIE negroes of John
sc-s Ee1zge regarded his rife as an
1gsezse from The white race. They
tzoEght sic wsg after his money.
Then cane neglect, later. ii was
charged, cruelty. The pugilist is said
70 have beaten Ter 80 severely on one
occasion that she vas taken 10 the
tozpitaI
Mrs Johnson ~as 10 hare left last
hight for Las Vegas, for her health.
Sshortiy before time to start she de-
yeEo5s6 an attark OF nervousness and
the trip wag postponed
After dtsmisssng her maids, Mrg.
johnson went to her rooms above the
cafe. The shooting followed a few
minutes later,
JACK johnson was not in the cafe
when the shooting occurred. He had
gone tnts, the civ 10 ,eIi Mrs. Johs.
CONS travelling companion that his
wife would be unable 10 accompany
her.
When the shot rang ont Henry
. johnson. the pugiIigt'g brother. order
ed the orchestra to PLAY loud music
aid rushed to his sister-in-lay's room.
He found her on the floor beside her
lied, dying with a bullet in her brain.
Che was taken to the Proyident hos
:, lpital.
: When johnson returned he seemed
much affected by the news that his
wife had attempted suicide. He wiped
: his eyes and made audible manifesto.
tons OF grief before leaving In his big
t touring car. together with his mother
8 and sisters. for the hospital Then
: be dismissed the nurses and was alone
Z for few minutes with the dying
woman. Shortly after the nurses re-
!. turned Mrs. Johnson died.
Johnson Immediately ordered the
! cafe, which had net been closed at
!, the time Of the shooting, locked up.