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YOU CAN FOLD THIS DAILY NEWSPAPER AND CARRY IT EASILY IN YOUR VEST POCKET THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2,NO.90 Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1913: ONE CENT JACK JOHNSON AND WHITE WOMAN ARRESTED AS THEY TRY TO FLEE COUNTRY Big Smoke Has Bought House in Fashionable District of Toronto, Can., and Was Bound There He and Woman Dragged from Pullman Berth. Assistant U. S. District Attor ney Harry Parkin this afternoon asked Federal Judge Carpenter to issue a bench warrant for the arrest of Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, and to set aside John son's $30,000 bond. Carpenter refused to do either. He said there might be some ex planation of Johnson's, attempt to flee to Canada, and that he would give him an opportunity to ap pear in court before ordering him arrested. Johnson's attorney, Benjamin C. Bachrach, promised to have the pugilist in court tomorrow. Matthew S. Baldwin, the white man who went Johnson's bond, was asked today if 4j .were true that Johnson had given him $30, 000 to guarantee him againsl; loss if the Big Smoke did skip out. Baldwin denied this very indig nantly, but admitted that he had known Johnson was going to try and leave the country. "He told me he was going to Toronto on business." Baldwin said. "Didn't you know the govern ment had warned Johnson he must not leave the federal judi cial district of northern Illinois?" Baldwin was asked. "Yes, but he told me he was coming back." "Did you know that white slav ery, with which Johnson is charged, is not extraditable?" When Baldwin was asked if Johnson had told him what the "business" he was going to To ronto to attend to was, he first said that Johnson had. "He told me it was about his coming fight with Al Palzer. I think he was going into training at Toronto." "Wouldn't that mean he would be gone from the United States for some time?" Baldwin was asked. "No," the bondsman answered.