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John Arthur Jack Johnson — Part 3
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‘ON. drunk with unaccustomed money, swollen, with the im-
his plug-ugly championship, big with the adulation of his own
white men who were not ‘above making money out of the
‘ness of the black man, was the most offensive creature Chi-
ito make a show of his prosperity; to swell before the people
to be arrested for speeding in hia big automobile, and finally
ciation with vicious white women—and that last brought about
le toils of the law, facing prison for his crime, he says he was
portunity of escape. Unsupported, the word of this beast is
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worthless, but corroborated, to the extent that cor,choratiu: cimes ¥ ut:
evidence of intimacy with the men who ought to have been enc.iged in
his prison term certain, it is at least <uficient te case a ton: .
His chicken dinner and other “courtesies, with humt as meastoto tee cee
notorious case-fixer that ever infested the rederai courts, Lewisseti DeW we.
the government's investigatar, and Parkin. the Special Assistant District Yin
ney, are one element of the case against the Federal Bue eee Phe wen ve
tenderloin rang with the achievement oe: the NEVO Winky Hoare ot ame ote
batl-bond broker. .
Is it any wonder that Chicago is demanding an invest.gat 0 8) ee tas
in the Federal Building whtn federal officiais Agured im such levee PENT oh
that of the greatest social event ever staged in Johnavi's dive?)
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