Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-15
FORMERGLOVE
CHAMP GIVEN
MEXICAN BOOT
Wild Life of Big Smoke
Arouses Ire of Lower Cali
fornia officials.
HE'S HEADED FOR JAIL
BY w. BOYD GArEWooD,

BY w. BOYD GATEWOoD,
International News STAFF Correspondents.
TIA JUANA, Mexico, June 15.-Jack
johnson, negro, former heavyweight box
ing champion Of the world, who for eight
years has been a fugitive from justice on
a conviction of white slavery" in Chi
cago, will be in the custody Of the de-
partment OF justice OF the United States
late today or early tomorrow, according
to announcement emanating from the
executive Offices Of lower California to-
DAP.
johnson has been given twenty-four
hcur@in which to leave Mexico, believed
to be the last place of refuge on the
fsce Of the earth for him.
DRIVE AGAINST
uNDEsIRABLEs ON.
Caught In the countrywide drive
against the undesirables, which is now
sweeping hundreds OF 'smen without q
country out Of Mexico. Johnson IS be-
Ing reported as an undesirable alien"
United States officers are waiting at
the International line. There is no place
no can go except to Jail, 1t is said.
Despised by the Mexicans, disowned
BY the better class of his own race and
harrad by the Americans from their
establishments here, Johnson gradually
has been getting himself marked for de-
Such Is the information given out In
q statement made today by Superior
Judge Luis Cache Of the Tia Juana court,
before whom charges OF lawlessness and
Offensive arrogance" were fled against
johnson.
Some OF the charges are these:
Johnson has q white valet, poor
american boy, said TO have been she'll
Blocked and gassed In the Argonne.
He is Jack Johnson's slave, to. do the
black mans every bidding, the victim
OF q weakened mental force from hia
war experiences and OF which weak
ened condition johnson Is said to take
outrageous advantage.
There are two sinister charges on file
against Johnson by two young girls.
BRUTAL ATTACK
on MEXICAN MAID.
one charges a brutal attempted attack
on Tineenta Espinozs, 20-year-old maid,
formerly in the employ Of the black mans
white wife, but who was forced to take
sons alleged abuse.
The other charge IS one Of a similar ma
ture brought by an ArnericaniZed Mexi-
can girl, by whose beauty Johnson was
Then there is the common story Of two
white girls aecosted by the negro, but
protected when their friends interviewed.
These charges are actually filed with
the Mexican judge.
The Mexican courts move slowly here,
but Judge Cache explained that these
complaints were part OF chain OF evil
dence gathered by the Mexican author1-
ties as a basis for the procedure TO de-
port the prize fighter as an undesirable
Part Of other evidence concerns the
mysterious shooting OF JACK John-
sons nephew, Gus Rhodes young negro
whom Johnson has taken around with
Ill "a xvnrld
Rhodes was shot when Johnson, his
white wife and others Of a party were
en- route from Mexico City to Mexlcala.
TWO STORIES
Oh SHOOTING.
Rhodes right arm was shattered by a
revolver ball Johnson told one story i'm
mediately on his arrival at Mextcala with
the wounded nephew and another story
The first story was that Rhodes had
shot himself But the wound was in the
right arm. The next was that Johnson
himself had shot him-accidentally.
The Mexican authorities are working
on the last story, eliminating the aecl-
dent angle.
was a domestic one, the Mexicans claim
They base their findings on the testimony
Of Mrs. JOhnsOns former maid
Americans here have interested them
selves into J0hnsOn's white boy valet
and are now conducting an investigation
Of his circumstances.
He claims his name is F. ". Brown,
formerly Of Chicago. He says his mother
lives in Clevelarsi. o., and that her name
is Mrs Ruth Prentiss, she having mar
RED again since the death Of Browns
father, which was before the boy
gravitated across the border into the per
sonaI service OF Jack Johnson, fugitive
from the law.
Meanwhile Jack Johnson's days OF
freedom are numbered and are growing
few
Mexico has moved to evict him and
Uncle Sans officers are waiting at the
boundary with bracelets OF STEEL
Jack Johnson's pathway has been long
and sometimes thriving, but at its end
there looms an American fail.