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John Arthur Jack Johnson — Part 3
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1 ON, drunk with h unaccustomed money,. swollen, with’ the i im.
his plug-ugly championship, big’ withthe adulation of his own
white men who were not above making money out of the
iness of the black man, was the most offensive. creature Chi-
d to 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
1e toils of the law, facing prison for his crime, he says. he was
‘portunity of eacape. _Unsup) a, the: 1
_ tenderloin rang with the achievement of the négro White jlaver and the. wrte
that of the. greatest social event ever staged in Johnson's dive?
BEA AOD REARAARARORRO A DRIAORIIORARALORRE TO 9eose
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worthless, but corroborated, to the ext.nt that corroboration comes wit. the
evidence of intimacy with the | men who ought to have been enguged invoice
his prison tertn certain, it is-at least sufficient to raise « oun
His chicken dinner and other “courtesies,” with him ds Rost to Ute clot
notorious case-fixer that ever infested the federal courts, Lewisohn, De Woods,
the government's investigator, and Parkin, the Special Assistant Disteact Arter
ney, are one element of.the case against the Federal Building crew. The whic
batl-bond broker.
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