The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-04-23
Is Alleged to Have Violated Mann
Law in Taking Eighteen Year.
Old Girl on Trips.
CONVICTED OF SMUGGLING
Brought Pearl Necklace Into This
Country For First White Wife
Broken in Health.
JACK JOHNSON GUILTY
By United Press.

BY United Press. .#
Chicago, April 23-Jack Johnson,
the negro puglist and conqueror of
James J. Jeffries, was today fined
81 900 on two indictments charging
him with smuggling into this country
a pearl necklace as a present for his
first white wife, Eta Duryea, who
committed suicide. ....: u
In imposing the sentence, Judge
Carpenter said that the imposition
Of fine and confscation of the pro-
perry were the usual punishments
and that Johnson's case did not differ
materially from others brought be-
fore the court. -.
Four other indictments charging
johnson with smuggling were dis
missed. ~. i. = ~ s-szz5z@a
Chicago, April 23-John Arthur
(Jack) johnson, negro pugilist, who
reached the zenith Of his fame when
he humbled James J. Jeffries at Reno,
New, on July 4, 1910, went on trial
before Federal Judge Carpenter to-
day facing the possibility of fifty
years imprisonment and fines total
ing $4,000. S
Johnson, under indictment for.
ten separate offenses, went to trial
first on the charge that he smuggled
"a $500 diamond necklace into Amer
lea to please his suicide wife, Eta
EDuryea, a white woman. At the con-
clusion of this trial, he will on May
5th answer to nine charges of vio-
lating the Mann white slave act by
transporting an eighteen-year-old
white girl through several states on
the vaudeville tours that netted him
thousands of dollars.
Johnson's first white wife was
Eta Duryea, the divorced wife of a
wealthy Long Island clubman and
horseman. For her, it is alleged, he
struggled the necklace from Paris.
Though she was showered with
wealth, the unhappy woman found
herself completely ostracized by her
own race and by that of her black
husband. There were charges by the
white girls mother that -Johnson's
kindness at first turned to brutality.
And then one night the woman MUIR
INJURED little prayer of forgiveness
and shot herself through the brain.
johnson protested to be greatly
saddened by the death--and within
a week he was paying such attentions
to Lucille Cameron, the eighteen
year-old daughter of Mrs. Cameron
Falconette, of Minneapolis, that the
mother appealed to the federal Off
cials to save this young white girl
from the hypnotic influence" of the
black pugilist. The mothers effort
and the efforts of the entire legal
machinery of the state of Illinois bore
no fruit, however, and Jack Johnson,
laughing at the girls mother, made
her his second wife.
Inquiry into Johnson's relations
with the Cameron girl, following q
marriage attended by characteristic
|showiness, revealed the fact that
scores of pretty white girls, hardly
out Of their teens, had been habitues
Of the negro.s training quarters, and
that Lucille Cameron was only one OF
many Of her race who had been
drawn to- the black fighter. The.
case of Belle Schneider was selected
by the government on which to base
Tits indictments. Belle Schneider was
but eighteen years old when she
first took the negro's fancy There
after she became his travelling COM
1panion. the government charges. His.
Treatment Of her the government Will
charge, graded from generosity to
brutality and the most revolving
forms 81 depravity The girl left.
Johnson after making trips between
Chicago. Milwaukee, Cleveland. New.
York, Pittsburgh and Atlantic City.
I'm 19 10. These alleged trips are the
basis of the governments charge that
johnson illegally transported girls
FOR immoral purposes.