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AN AD-LESS NEWSPAPER ALL THE NEWS IN TABLOID FORM BIG TYPE EASY TO READ THE DAYBOOK 500 SO. PEOEIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2,N0.52 Chicago, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1912 ONE CENT RACE RIOT DANGER AFTER PEARL NUGET'S SUICIDE IN OFFICE OF NEGRO MINISTER gro. He is an ordained minister. He- is . wealthy, havirig made money in real estate deals. Pearl Nugent met Brownlee first about a year ago, when she was looking for a position. She answered an advertisement in serted by Brownlee. There Was nothing in the ad vertisement, about Brownl fee's color, and the girl , thought she was gong ,to apply to a white man. After she met Brownlee, the young white girl apparently be came infatuated with him. She accepted a position as his stenographer, and went home and told her people that.she had got a job in the, office 'of a white real estate dealer. . Her people never fo'und out that she was working for a negro, and they never heard a whisper of the orgies that went on in Brownlee's offices. - At the inquest yesterday there were stories of midnight suppers given by Brownlee' in his offices, at which the women were all white and the men all black. There always was wine served at thjsesuppers, and the revelry, Joplin, Mb., Nov. 27. The whites! of Joplin haye formed themselves into a vigilance com mittee sworn 'to vengeance on J. N. Brownlee and Charles Hous ton, the negroes arrested after the -suicide of- Pearl Nugent, Brownlee's, white girl stenogT rapher. , " The two negroes were spirited puj: of Joplin under a heavy guard last night- The police refuse to say where, they jwere taken, but It it believed they are in jail at Car thage. tt It is whispered today that a body of heavily armed whites of Joplin mayr march to Carthage and try to take the negroes by force. The fury of the whites was aroused by the testimony at the inquest over the body of Pearl Nugent-held yesterday afternoon. Much of the testimony is being kept secret by the authorities in fear that it may kindle a race war," but much of it leaked out. Pearl Nugent was onfy 17 years old. Brownlee is a man of thirty five. Brownlee is an educated, ne-