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MARY BOYLE O'REILLY TELLS WHY A CANNERY BOY SAID "THERE IS NO GOD" THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2,MU.5U Chicago, Monday, Nov. 25, 1912 ONE CENT LUCILLE CAMERON, FREED, SAYS LIFE IS A NIGHTMARE; JOHNSONS DENOUNCE HER "I never want to hear Jack Johnson's name again. He ruined my past, and the memory of him will ruin my future. "There are times when I waken up in the night and seem to see his black, hideous body -towering over me, threatening me with awful things, and jeering at me. . "The face is always grinning, always taunting. It seems to be saying to me r - " 'You are a.white woman, but I got you. I did with you as I wanted. I used you, and then I cast you aside, to be the shame of all the men of your own race "I never can forget. The past will always haunt me. Jackjohn-t son will always haunt me. Only Dn my dying day, will ., I know peace." 'Lucille Cameron. "What the Cameron women say is outrageous. The mother knew the life her daughter was leading before she eve? heard q Jack.1 To,the daughter, Jack Was only a man whose money she wanted, and she was eager to be come bis mistress to get it. "All the stories against Jack are lies, The, whole secret is that Jack has lots of money and that he wasn't handing' it out fast enough to please some people." Mrs, Tina Johnson, mother of Jack Johnson. Lucille Cameron, the19-year-old girl who caused the indict-1 ment of Jack Johnson for white slavery was freed today. Standing-; in a corridor of the federal building with her face half buried in Tier mother's breast, she gave her first interview, 'since the indictment of Johnson,' to The Day JBook. It was the interview of a broken woman for- whom-life held noth ing worth while, a Woman haunt ed by the,past and.afraid,. terribly afraid, of the future, And-eveh asLucilte Cameron was sobbing out the horror other life, Jack Johnsonfs mother was branding her as a woman of the street who had been glad to sell herself to Jack for money. The Cameron girl has been held in jail under 25,000 bonds as a witness; against Johnson ever since her relations with him were exposed by the government. Her mother, Mrs. Falconet Cameron, has been staying in iail