The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18
He CAN'T HELP IT
White Women Just Fall in Love
With Johnson.
Mother of Girl InsuIted by
Black Champion.
GET ANY WOMAN HE WANTS
So Negro Says When Asked to
Give Up Girl.
Maid Says She Has Gone Too
Far to Stop.
GET ANY WOMAN He WANTS

ri (n1cdBO, OCT 1S--Idck johnson IN
statement here. said:
| II can't help it if white women be-
come infatuated with me and follow
me around. If Miss Cameron loves me
that is my business and hers, as she
is old enough to know her own mind
by this time. For the past month ]
have employed her as stenographer.
In about three weeks I expect to
leave for Australia, where I am to
fight Sam Langford and Sam McVey
and I will leave my troubles and
these wise people behind who make it
their business to poke their noses into
my affairs"
When asked if he intended to marry
Miss Cameron or take her with him,
johnson replied:
Il do not intend to take her with
me, but as she has money of her
own, she may take the notion to fol-
low me and you surely can't blame me
for what she does. I would not take
her unless I first married her. OF
course, may marry her but not now.
can choose whomever I wish to mar
/ ry and no one can stop me-
! Johnson, the negro pugilist, appear
/ ed before Chief of Police McWeeney
| to explain his relations with Miss Luz
| cile Cameron, the 19-year-old daugh-
/ ter of Mrs. F. Cameron-Falconnet, of
| Minneapolis, for whom the police had
| been asked to search by the mother
/ Miss Cameron is a striking blond of
a well-to-do family.
"Get'' Any Woman He Wants.
| In a dramatic appeal Mrs. Falconnet
| told of her failure to get her daughter
away from the influences of the negro.
She described her anguish when she
learned last Friday that her daughter
was a frequcnter of Johnson's cafe,
lar hTIT-TI ead trim
girl, her interviews with the pugilist,
who, she declared, insulted her and
routed her plea to give up the girl.
johnson, she said, told her he could
get any woman he wanted.
when found Lucille pointed out
the wrong she had done. I pleaded
with her. I told her I would give up
everything I had in life to get her to
go back; that I would go any place
With her and shield her from criticism
back home. She refused to come, be-
ing apparently under Johnson's inf1u-
ence.
'-Then I stif1ed my pride and teIe-
phoned johnson. He said he would
send an automobile for me. Friends
advised me to see If 1 couldn't person
ally get him to give Id my daughter.
Best Women Ride With Him.
when his automobile arrived he
was in it himself, although he said it
would be empty. When / entered his
-1m- usine I drew down the shades so
as not to be SEEN This nettled him.
" oh, some of the best white wom-
en- in Chicago ride in this car is what
he said to me.
ct begged Johnson to give up my
daughter. He said he would not and
leered in my face.
I'VE rode to a home on Sheridan
road, where Lucille was staying. She
wept and told ME she had gone too
far to go back. Every once in a while
she would walk out of the room with
the negro and talk with him. I told
her I would do everything within my
power to save her.
Il left her undecided. Finally she
came to my hotel. We talked of how
she could become disentaneIed. I was
convinced at that time that the negro
had a hypnotic influence over her.
johnson to Fight for Girl.
''She went downstairs to use the
ed. Johnson told me he would give
every dollar he has to hold her. have
appealed to the police, but they say
they can do nothing, as Lucille is 10 |
years old. 1t doesn't seem that white |
men would see their civilization out
ragged so.''
the report that his infatuation for the
Cameron girl was enc of the causes
of the suicide recently Ct Mrs. Duryea /
Johnson, the negro champions white
as cashier in his cafe for
another position, and that his wife /
had never seen Miss Cameron. /
johnson denies the whole thing"
said Chief McWeeny. zone thing is
certain. If I find anything wrong at
place, he'll be arrested in a
hurry"
Miss Cameron was taken into custody
by the police tonight after she had re-
fused to leave her companions in Chi
cago and accompany her mother to
Girl Lived In Curley's Flat.
She was questioned by Police Captain
Nootbaer and later taken to the South
CLARK street police station for the night.
She was arrested on complaint of her
mother, but was not booked. She IS
said to have been living In the fiat of
Jack Curley in Sheridan road
Miss Cameron told Police Captain
Nootbaer she loved Jack johnson and
that while the negro had lot as yet
made her a proposal of marriage, she
expected to become his wife in the near
future
At this announcement the mother OF
the girl became hysterical.
Later johnson, accompanied by an
attorney, visited the police station ana
attempted to talk with the girl, but was
denied permission to see her.
st cannot go back, and | don't want
to go back to Minneapolis" said Miss
Cameron, who appeared unaffected by
the pleading of her mother. 81 expect
to become the wife of Mr.. johnson
shortly. although he has not proposed
to me. love him and want to
stay in Chicago"