Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-27
Pug Jumps $4,000 Bail
at Chicago and Goes
to Canada.
NOT REACHABLE THERE
Federal Officials Seek to Have
Him Returned Here, but
All Efforts Fail.

Ottawa, Ontario, June 27.-If Jack
Johnson, the negro pugilist, does not |
az once prove to the immigration Of
fcials at Montreal that he holds a |
through ticket TO France or st. Pet |
ersburg, as he maintains, he will be
arrested and sent back to Chicago as
quickly as the machinery of the Jaw
permits. Furthermore, if he holds a
| ticket, he must use it Immediately.
| This was the announcement today of
the Canadian immigration department
after receipt of a request from the
| United States vice consul at Montreal
! that the negro be deported.
Washington, d. c., June 27.-Jack
| Johnson, negro ring champion, has
made good his escape from the United
States for the time being at least, and
can neither be extradited nor deport-
| ed from Canada, according to the lat
| est official view here.
/ Johnson, i is learned, is travelling
on tourist ticket and Canada cannot
return him because her immigration
! law does not exclude a transient alien
| in such circumstances. Efforts Of Of
flcials here today to have Johnson re-
turned to the United States under the
Canada immigration laws failed.
TO FIGHT ABROAD.
Chicago, H., June 27.-"Jack" John
son, negro pugilist, under years SEN
tence as a trafficker in white women,
has fled the country with his 20-year-
old white wife.
-Tn6 negro and his wife are missing
from their home, 3344 Wabash ave-,
nue., and his automobiles and other
belongings are known to have been
converted into cash. He left the city
Tuesday night and yesterday was
found at Montreal, Canada. He ad-
mitted when found last night he in
tended to sail for Europe Tuesday to
engage in fights in st. Petersburg. He
denied he intended to forfeit his bond.
Johnson and his wife reached To-
ronto Wednesday over the Canadian
Pacific railroad. They met Tom
Flanagan, Johns manager, who di-
) rected his business affairs during his
last fight at Las Vegas, and then Sc
cretly departed for Montreal.
bOND Is 0bI DO"Ns
After his visit with Johnson, FIana-
, gan is quoted as saying:
Jack has forfeited his bond and
is going to Paris. He has no inten-
tion of going back to Chicago, where
he is positive he will have to serve out
his sentence"
In departing from Chicago Johnson
forfeits but $4,000 bond. After his
i, indictment under the white slave act
his bond was fixed at $6G,000. Later
Judge Carpenter reduced it to $500
, He was held on that amount until
after a jury had found him guilty and
, Judge Carpenter fixed his sentence
at one year and one day in the peni-
tentiary and fined him $1,000. An
:, appeal was taken and the jurist, over
the protest of the district attorney S
. office, lowered the bond to $4,000.
The small bond was signed the first
of the week by Matthew S. Baldwin,
! an aged Evanston man. Johnson is
reported to have departed immediate,
' ly afterward.
AGENT SEEKS CAPTURE.
n Steps were taken last night by
Charles DeWoody, department of jus
tice agent, to have Johnson returned
to Chicago. Although extradition un
der the Mann act is not permissible
:, Mr.. DeWoody said that if johnson
: were found he might be arrested as
q an undesirable and sent back to the
- United States, where he could be TAX
= en- into custody
= Il will get into communication will
the Canadian authorities at once anC
: find out if the statutes can be en-
forced in this case" Mr.. DeWoodI
said. If Johnson has not already lef
Canada for Europe We will try to ge
him back"
Ben Bachrach, Johnson's legal ad
u wiser, said he had no information a
- to Johnson's whereabouts.
IL Il talked TO him over the telephon
&c Tuesday night, and when l called u
his house today they told me he wa
away on a fishing trip" Bachracl
said. Il don't know where he is"
At the Johnson home it was sal
that he was at Cedar Lake, Ind. fish
n ing"
a Robert Loeffel, head of the hotel q
u Cedar Lake, where Johnson usual
stops, said he had not been there 70
ct three weeks.
ee 1t is known that several weeks ag
tn Johnson began selling his belonging
a He told one friend that he ha
I'd shipped two Of his automobiles I
be Germany and getting IS much cas-
an as he could, so he wouldn't have
come back.