The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
Mother Asks Police to Rescue
Daughter From Johnson.
Negro Keeps Her in Rooms
Above Cafe, She Says.
WOMAN CAUSED THE SUICIDE
Mrs. johnson Saw Husband
CaresS Her Rival.
Warm Time Promised in john
son Family Row.

Chicago. Oct 17.-Mrs. F. Cameron
Falconet, a beautiful and wealthy Min
neapolis woman, appealed to the Gnu
Il cago police to rescue her daughter
l Lucille Cameron. who she declared has
! been sequestered by Jack Johnson,
/ negro heavyweight champion pugilist.
/ Lucille Cameron is 10 years old and
beautiful. About feet inches tall'
! she weighs about 100 pounds, has an
attractive figure, deep blue eyes
! fringed with long lashes, fair halr ana
beautiful, even teeth.
According to Lieutenant Michael j.
! Crotty, commanding the Stanton ave
! nue. police station, Miss Cameron has
/ been occupying the apartment over
] Johnson's cafe since a few days after
| the former Mrs. Jack johnson COM
mitted suicide.
Despite the oft-repeated declarations
made by Johnson when Mrs. Duryea-
johnson killed herself, he is undoubt-
edly infatuated with this pretty
white girl According to we'll anthem
ticated report, the Immediate reason
Mrs johnson committed suicide was
the sight of her rival in private
room with the champion.
saw Husband and Rival.
Repeatedly Mrs. Johnson had de-
cIared that she would sooner or later
kill herself. On the night in cues
ton she came down the stairway from
her apartment over the cafe and open
ed the door of a private room where
Jack is wont to entertain special par
ties of friends.
There, it is declared, she saw him
with his arms around Lucille Cameron.
without q word she turned, walked
upstairs and after few preliminary
preparations shot herself through the
head.
DISPATCHES from Minneapolis say that
Lucille Cameron ran away from nome
in 1911, before she was Is years OLD
She was caught here by city detec-
tives and held until her mother came
and took her home. Forbidden to go
to cafes in her home city, she. is SAID
to have been severely chided by her
mother for remaining away from home
several days early last summer anG
again she disappeared.
Her mother located her in Chicago,
at 4548 Indiana avenue, came to this
city, assured herself that the house
was emiinently respectable, and finally
returned home, believing that the
daughter was working in a store.
Recently, the dispatches said, it be-
came a matter of common gossip
among her former friends and ac-
quaintances that she had become
familiar figure in various cafes and
especially in Jack Johnson's. Still Ia
ter. declared the dispatches, it was
stated in Minneapolis that Jack john
sons infatuation for her was the
cause of Mrs. Johnson's suicide.
Now Comes Family Row.
Johnsons infatuation for the girl
is said to be responsible for a family
row which will be staged in Judge
Newcomers court next Friday.
About a week ago Jack caused the
arrest of his youngest brother, Charles
johnson, on the ostensible charge of
obtaining money under false pretenses-
The real reason is that Jack accuses |
the boy of stealing $500 worth of furs
and some elegant gowns formerly worn |
by Mrs. Duryea-Johnson.
His mother, Mrs. Tiny Johnson, and
his three sisters, Mrs ]. E. Rhodes, |
Mrs. Lucy Bolden and Miss Fanny |
Johnson, have all rallied to the de- |
tense of Charles. They have retained !
counsel to defend Charles and a warm |
fight is expected.
Mrs Rhodes declared that when |
Charles is arraigned she and her moth !
er will cause immediate service of |
warrants for the arrest of Lucille |
Cameron and negress maid, charg |
ing the theft of the furs and gowns. |
Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. |
Bolden declared that Jack and the
maid were the only persons who had
keys to the store house where the |
goods were stored.
Sensational Charges limited AT.
Instead of Charles Johnson having |
the furs and gowns, the feminine men,
bers of the family believe that the ar
ticles were removed from the store /
house secretly, but with the know
ledge and consent of Jack Johnson, in
order that he might surreptitiously pre-
sent them to Lucille Cameron.
IF Charles were guilty, I would say
that he should be punished said !
Mrs. Johnson, but I know he is not.
I shall fight for him as long as 1 have
breath, and so will all of the other |
members of the family /
Sensational charges of an entirely