The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-18

I PUC|L|ST With
EVIL INFLUENCE
Minneapolis Woman Says Jack
Johnson Has Influence
Over Her Daughter.
TELLS CHIEF OF POLICE
Declares She Attempted to In
duce Her Daughter to
Leave Him.
TELLS CHIEF OF POLICE.
Press Dispatch.

Chicago, Oct. 17.--Jack Johnson,
the negro heavyweight champion
pueilist, appeared before Chief of
Police McWeeney. today, to explain
b IS relation with Miss Lucille Cam
9rn, 19-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Cameron -Falconnett of Minneapolis,
FOR whom he had been asked to
carch by the mother. Miss Cam
eron is described as a striking blonde
If well-to- -do-family,
In a dramatic appeal Mrs Falcon
nett told of her failure to get her
daughter away from the Influence
Of the negro. She described her an
,uish, when she learned last Friday
that he daughter was a frequenter
If Johnson's cafe,
Johnson, she said. told her he
could "get any woman he wanted "
When found Lucille I pointed out
he wrong she had done, pleaded
With her, / told her | would give up
averything | had in life to get her
70 90 back, that | would go any place
with her and shield her from criti
ni SIN back home. She refused to
e0me. apparently being under John
sons influence.
Telerhores Black.
"'Theu | stifed my pride and tele-
0honed IohusOn He said he would
send an automobile FOR me. Friends
of mine advised me to see if | covld
not personally get him to give up
nv dauehter. When the automobile
rived he was in it, himself, al
thoueh he said it would be empty
when | entered the limousene |
drew down the shades so as not to
he seen, This nettled him.
oh some of the best white wom-
en- in Chicago ride in this car, is
what he said to me.
81 begged to have him give up my
daughter. He said he wouldn't and
leered in my face. We rode to a
home on Sheridan road where Lu-
ellie 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. l told
her | would do everything within
my power to save her | left her
undecided. Finally she came to my
hotel. We talked Of how she could
become dis-entangled 7 was con
v'nced at that time that the negro
had hypnotic influence over her
Girl is of Age.
she went down stairs to use the
telephone, she said, and never re-
turned. 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 Lu-
cille is 10 year old. 1t does not
seem that white men would see their
civilization so outraged"
Johnson made an absolute denial
of undue friendly relations with
| Miss Cameron. He denied the report
that his infatuation for the Cemeron
woman was the cause for the suicide
| recently of his wife
Miss Cameron was taken into GUS
tody by the police, late tonight, af-
ter she had refused to leave her COM
panion in Chicago and accompany
her mother to Minneapolis. She was
questioned by the police and later
| taken to the South Clark street sta
| tion for the night. She was arrest
led on the complaint of her mother,
but not booked. She is said to have
been living in the fiat with Jack
Surley, in Sheridan road.
Loves Big Pueilist.
Miss Cameron told Police Captain
Nootbear she loved Jack Johnson
and tnat while the negro had not as
vet made her a proposal of marriage
she expected to become his wife In
| the near future. At this announce
ment the mother of the girl became
hysterical. Later Jbhnson, accom-
panied by an attorney, visited the
police station to talk with the girl,
but was denied permission to see her
'T cannot go back and ! don't
want to 60 back to Minneapolis, said
/ Concluded on PAKA Slx.y