The Washington times., 1920-06-16
JACK JOHNSON NEAR
THE END0F HIS ROPE
Mexico Preparing to Send Him
Across Border az an Sun
desirable"
By w. BOYD GATEwOOD.
Interaat ttonaI News Service.

IntcrmatOnat Nc"s Ssbvsees
TIA JUANA. Mexico, June Ia
Jack Johnson. once champion pu-
gilist OF the world. is about TO be
driven out OF Mexico. the last place
OF refuge on the face OF the earth
for him.
Caught In the countrywide drive
against undesirables now sweeping
scores OF men without q country" out
OF Mexico. IL will be deportatioS for
the big black man unless he consents
TO surrender TO Uncle Sam. who holds
an unserved one-year prison sen
tence against him, imposed in Chi
ago.
"Despised. by the Aexicans, dis
owned by the better classes of his
own race. and barred by the Ameri-
cans from their best establishments
hereto quote dozens Of people here
Jack johnson may not know II
yet, but he has less than thirty days
OF grace in Mexico.
There Is no place he can go except
to jail. Federal agents are waiting
at the international line. Such is the
force OF a statement made today by
Superior Judge Luis Cacho. of the Tia
Juana court, before whom charges OF
lawlessness and Offensive arrogance"
have been nied against johnson.
LONG LIST OF CHARGES.
Some OF the charges are these:
Johnson has q white valet, a poor
American boy. said to have been she'll
shocked and gassed in the Argonne.
He Is Jack Johnson's slave. to do the
black mans every bidding, the victim
OF a weakened mental force from his
war experiences and of which weak
ened condition Johnson is said to take
advantage.
file against johnson by two young
girls.
One charges a brutal attempted at
tack on Vincenta Espinoza, twenty
year-old maid. formerly in the en-
ploy OF the black mans white wife
but who was forced to take haven In
another house to escape Johnson's al
legged abuse.
The other charge is one Of a
similar nature brought by an Amer
icanized Mexican girl, by whose beau
ty johnson was drawn.
These charges are actually filed with
the Mexican Judge. Yet Johnson has
not been placed under arrest. The
Mexican courts move with the
''manana" spirit here and Judge
Cacho explains that these complaints
are part Of chain of evidence now
being gathered.
NEPHEW SHOT.
Part of this other evidence concerns
the mysterious shooting Of Jack John
sons nephew, Gus Rhodes. a young
negro whom Johnson has taken
around with him all over the world.
Rhodes was shot when Johnson. his
wife and others of a party. were en-
route from Mexico City to MexicalL
His right arm was shattered by a
revolver ball. johnson told one
story Immediately on his arrival In
Mexicali with the wounded nephew
and another later on. The first was
that Rhodes had shot himself. But
the wound was in the right arm. The
next was that johnson himself had
shot Enthusiastically.
The Mexican authorities are work
ing on the last story. eliminating the
accident angle.
The motive for this family shooting
was a domestic one, the Mexicans
claim. They base their findings or
the testimony of Mrs. Johnson's
former maid.
AMERICANS INTERESTED.
Americans here have interested
themselves in Johnson's white boy
valet, and are now conducting an in
vestigation of his circumstances. He
claims his name is E. w. Brown
formerly of Chicago. He says his
mother lives in Cleveland, Ohio. and
that her name is Mrs. Ruth Prentiss
she having married again since the
death of Browns father. which was
before he gravitated across the Dor
der into the personal service Of Jack
Johnson. fugitive from the law.
Meanwhile, Jack Johnson's days OF
freedom are numbered and are grow
ing few.
Mexico is moving to evict him. and
Uncle Sans officers are waiting al
the boundary with bracelets of steel
Jack Johnson's path way has been
long and thrilling, but at its end
there looms an American jail