Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-05-23
CONVICT JOHNSON
ON SEVEN COUNTS
Rlc BLACK PUGlLlST HELD
GUILTY FOR MANN LAW
VIOLATION.
PENALTY is NOT YET FIXED
Maximum is Five Years or $7o,UoV
Fine, or Both-AppeaI for New
Trial Set For
May 20.

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champion heavyweight prizehghter'
has been found guilty of violating the
Mann law in transporting Belle
Schneider from Pittsburg to Chicago
in 1910. He was convicted on all
seven counts in the indictment. The
Jury returned it's verdict after an
hours consideration.
Maximum Penalty.
The maximum penalty under the
finding is five years Imprisonment or
$4,000 fine, or both.
A motion of Assistant District At
torney Harry Parkin that Johnson be
ordered confined in the county jail
was overruled by Judge Carpenter
and the negro was released on bond
of $4,000. A motion for new trial
was filed at once by counsel for John
son and arguments on the motion
were set for May 20.
Johnson was charged with having
furnished Miss Schrieber with SIS
with which to come from Pittsburg to
Chicago. Miss Schneider testified thai
on her arrival here, johnson had fur
nished fiat which she had said had
been devoted to immoral purposes.
She also described trips around the
country which she said had been made
with the prizefghter and at his ex-
pense.
Before First Marriage.
This was in 1910, just before the
marriage of Johnson to Eta Duryea,
the divorced wife of an eastern horse
man. She shot herself to death eight
months ago, leaving letters to her
mother brooding over her social down.
fall and her neglect.
Two months later johnson was ar
rested by the Chicago police on the
charge of having abducted Lucille
Cameron, the 1S-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Cameron of Minneapolis, who
had been employed as cashier at
Johnson's restaurant These charges
were dropped and Johnson and the
Cameron girl were married.
1t was during the police investiga-
ton Of Johnson's affair with the Min
neapolis girl that facts were unearth-
ed which resulted in the prizefighter's
indictment by federal grand jury
in connection with the Schrieber
woman.
Four Ballots Taken.
Four ballots were taken by the jury,
the first ballot being four for acquit-
tai and eight for conviction. James
Bruce, grain dealer of Marseilles,
ILL.,, was foreman of the jury.
Two counts of the indictment were
dismissed Monday at the request of
Judge Carpenter, who declared that
no good purpose could be served by
airing the unnecessary details of the
relations of Johnson and the woman,
Lucille Cameron Johnson, his pres
ent wife, did not appear in the court
room at any time during the trial.
his attorneys fearing the effect of her
presence. Instead, Mrs. Tiny johnson.
the negro's mother, sat constantly at
his side. Only a few persons were
In court when the verdict was read.
as result of an order of Judge Car
penter that scandal FANS be barred
from the hearings.
Smile Comes OF.
The suggestion of Johnson's Gold.
en- Smile" which had been on his
lips during the time of the jury's de-
alterations, faded when the clerk pro-
nounced the word guilty" johnson
sat solemnly in his seat until Attor.
ney Parkin's motion that the fighter
be taken into custody was denied
when he slipped quietly from his seat
and made his way from the court room
alone.