The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-01-31
DEMPSEY CHARGES
MAKE WELLS FAMOUS

For several days, up to Monday,
Wells was the center-piece of the
thoughts of thousands of people of
the United States and the name of
the town was quoted in dispatches
and newspapers from Maine to San
Francisco, says the Nevada State
Herald (Wells). Newspaper men and
special correspondents from all over
the coast were arriving on every train
and among them were some mysteri-
Gus personages, whose missio nthey
kept to themselves.
Many people believe some of the
visitors were employed by one Jack
Dempsey to watch the movements of
his divorced wife, Maxine Dempsey.
that the object of the news writers
visit, Mrs Maxine Dempsey, has re-
moved.
All this fuss was created by Mrs.
Dempsey when she wrote the San
Francisco papers, charging her for
mer husband, Jack Dempsey, the pu-
gilist, with being a Stacker, and stat
ing that she was prepared to prove
her assertions. Within a remarkably
short time after this statement was
given publication by the bay city
papers Mrs. Dempsey and Wells were
he cynosure of all sportdom. Dis
patches for Mrs. Dempsey began
pouring in from all parts of the
United States with such rapidity that
she would have been compelled to
employ an army of stenographers had
she attempted to answer all of them.
And then the writers and detectives
began TO arrive. Nearly every train
during last Friday. Saturday and Sun
day brought one or more writers, each
bent on securing the exclusive"
story of the precious possessions of
Mrs. Dempsey. But all of them went
away with about as much information
of reliable nature as they possessed
when they arrived.
Their Disappointment was keen, but
they all made the best of it except
one writer for the San Francisco Ex-
aminer, who. when he could not have
his own way, wrote story attack
ing the town of Wells, thereby show
ing the small calibre of the individual
who had come for news.
Others attempted to make "stories"
of their trip, and were more or less
garbled as to facts, guesswork being
employed in their estimates. One
of the writer's, signing himself Jack
James, Universal Service Staff Cor
respondent had lengthy story in
the newspapers using that service,
which was quite readable. but lacking
of facts.
The truth of the whole matter is
that Mrs. Dempsey, who claimed in
the letter written by her to the San
Francisco Chronicle. to have letters
proving her charges, steadfastly re-
fuses to make them public. That the
letters are in existence, there is no
doubt, but she refuses, for reasons
known to herself and her advisors. to
make them public at the present time
preferring to wait until such time as
she deems the psychological moment
when. she has stated. she will divulge
their contents, and when this is done
every assurance is given that the
sporting world will be astounded and
satisfied. and that the popularity OF
the young champion will be of the
past.
Accompanied by three other women
whom, Mrs. Dempsey remarked
would act as her body guards, she
departed from Wells last Sunday
night on an east-bound train. claim.
ing she had been called away, but
not making known her destination.
According to an Ogden dispatch oi