Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-15
JACK DEMPSEY
NOT STACKER,
JURY'S VERDICT
Found Not Guilty of Evading
Draft Shortly After Case
Is Submitted.
TELLS STORY ON STAND

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-
William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey,
heavyweight champion o. the world,
was found not guilty of conspiracy
to evade the draft law, shortly after
his case was submitted to a federal
jury here today.
The case went to the jury at 1920
this morning
I'm the happiest kid on EARTH"
Dempsey said when the verdict was an
nounced.
Dempsey and his manager. Jack
Kearns, were indicted on conspiracy
charges after Dempseys former wife,
Maxine, claimed she had been Influenced
to falsify his QUESTIONABLE.
The case of Kearns will be called %
morrow, attorneys announced following
Dempsey's acquittal.
Maxine Dempsey was a witness against
her ex-husband and contributed sa-
lacious bits to the hearing.
Arguments were waived by both sides
and the jury spent less than thirty
minutes in reaching a verdict.
Maxine Dempsey was a witness
against her ex-husband. She testified
some difficult periods, that he had
struck her and that he failed to sup
port her.
Dempsey, in reply, told a straight
forward story which cross-examination
| failed to shake in any detail
He denied charges of nonsupport and
cruelty made by his former wife and de-
scribed himself as having been the prin-
cipal support Of his family since be was
II years olL.
MAXINE GOOD WITNESS
FOR THE PROSECUTION.
Maxine Dempsey made a perfect wit
ness for the prosecution.
She tested that DR.. Joseph Fife had
treated her at the Hotel Gibson in May,
1917, for a dislocated jaw.
DR.. Fife previously had tested that
the patient whom he attended at the hotel
on that night had told him she had
fallen down stairs.
What were the circumstances by which
you received that dislocated jaw" Mrs.
Dempsey had been asked.
II hadn't made any money that night,
so Jack struck me-"
Mrs. Dempsey told of her marriage to
Dempsey in October. 1916, and their mar
ried life thereafter.
| She said they went from Salt Lake to
Salida, Cal, then to San Francisco.
where they stopped for a time at the
Adena hotel.
Later she lived for a time in Forty
eighth avenue, Dempsey going to Salt
Lake.
He returned and a week later thoy
went to Seattle.
SAID HE LEFT HER
WITH ONLY so CENTS.
What were you doing during this
time" she was asked
/ The answer was, 'Practicing prostitu-
/ ton
/ Finally, she said. Dempsey left her in
/ June, 1917, in Seattle, with only so cents
in money, a railroad ticket, one suit OF
clothes and travelling bag.
From Seattle she went to Yakima,
Wash, where she entered upon a life Of
shame, which she pursued at various
points, including ST. Louis and Cairo, Ill
L November, 1917, she returned to
Seattle.
Dempsey later sent her first $50, then
SIS and $25 and railroad ticket to Salt
Lake, she testified
Under cross examination the witness
admitted Dempsey paid their hotel bills,
| transportation and for their meals.
The last time she saw Dempsey, she
said, was in Los Angeles in February,
1920.
Dempsey refuted his formers wife's
charges.
He denied he had broken his wife's jaw
by blow while they were living in
hotel here. because as she had said 'she
had not earned any money for him."
I never struck my wife," he said.
The fracture Of her jaw was caused By
a fall"
Dempsey detailed his experiences as q
farm hand, miner. carpenter and boxer.
including reverses when ''the boxing
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