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- -- --, - -XS rfGF"Veyi&u.ySrim' y. V T""'tlP' "?& 'yy 3. r"ry -" -"W?Vf- I t 1 r s fr W Ik SBMe bBBBBBBi gMfi& && jIj9BBb HHHHfeBHHHHHHHHHL vr fimFK' " HKHfi BMBwBBBjfitfi.Lj j 'Si iTWBBM 1 iM'vBHBBHHBBB LAWYER EDWABD H. WEiaHT. Ex-commissioner of Cook County who played a prominent part with Attorney W. G. Anderson in procuring the $100,000 bond for Jack Johnson which Drought about his freedom from prison. ATTOENEYS WEIGHT AND AN- DEBSON HIGHLY FBAISED, AND SOME SOCIAL ITEMS. (By Cary B. Lewis.) The release of Jack Johnson from the Cook County jail is due to the efforts of two Colored lawyers, Hon. Edward H. Wright and W. G. Ander son. At the beginning of the trouble he had an array of White legal talent bat they failed to get "Jack" out of the prison walls. Great credit is being given these two lawyers for securing the right bondsman and fighting un ceasingly against prejudice and great odds. Only those who are in immedi ate confidence of the counselors them selves will ever be able to appreciate the uphill journey and difficult task which Messrs. Edward H. Wright and W. G. Anderson had to go through in order to secure Johnson's liberty. At torney Wright was the first and only Negro to serve as president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners and has taken interest in all matters affecting the race. He has won many notable cases at the Chicago Bar and is held in high esteem for his honesty and integrity. Mr. Anderson enjoys a national reputation as a Habeas Corpus lawyer, having carried to successful termination some of the most noted cases which have occupied attention in Cook County for the past fifteen years. He is an astute lawyer, a careful attorney and has a remarkable ability for technical law. Mrs. Bessie Trotter Craft, sister to Editor William Monroe Trotter of the Boston Guardian, was tendered a swell social function on last Saturday after noon at the home of Mrs. Charles E. Bentley, wife of the noted dental sur geon!. Twenty-three of the leading society girls and matrons were present at a luncheon and were gowned in the height of style. Ten courses were served and following the dinner, senti ments were read on marriage. Some were humorous and other serious. Mrs. Cecil Johnson-Mozee was voted the honor for the reading the best senti ment and Mrs. Myrtle Pry, Mrs. Ed ward H. Morris and Miss Garnett Tibbs were voted honors for reading the best sentiments. Dr. Charles E. Bentley, Mr. Harry Craft and Mr. Cary B. Lewis . were the tellers. In point of brilliancy and fashion, it was the leading social affair of the season. Dr. Boy Young, a Colored man, a securing much praise at the Northwest ern University as the assistant coach. Through his coaching the Purple this year is much better than last. Mr. Prank P. George and a number of prominent dramatic and musical celebrities gave concert and dance on Tuesday night of this week at Oakland HalL It was quite a success. A BARGAIN. $2750 cash takes Bedford stone front, three fiat building, lot 25x125, near Grand Boulevard and 41st St Good condition.' Plate glass windows, paved street. Pine neighborhood. Mortgage $3000, 5 per cent. Brings 17 per cent on equity. Louis B. Berg ersen, 19 So, Hoyne Are. Phone West 43T. HEALTH NOTES. People desiring the help of the De partment of Health in their efforts to improve community conditions may rest- assured that their names wjll not be given out except in cases where the Commissioner of Health after a careful investigation decides that it should be done. The Department of Health is anx ious to give to the citizens of Chicago the best service that lies in its power to give. It is good to see that the spirit of civic cleanliness is growing and it is the spirit that gets things done and helps to make for a cleaner and brighter Chicago. As a rule the Department of Health regards anonymous complaints with suspicion. In many instances it is found that people who do not sign their complaints are making them only to "get even" with some one against whom they have a grievance. It often happens, however, that despite a little bit of spite work or ill feeling is back of the anonymous complaints, they are often well founded and the conditions complained of actually exist. Some times, too, people are afraid to sign their complaints for fear of incurring the ill will of the party or parties against whom the complaints are made. And again employes working under bad sanitary conditions feel that the De partment of Health should be informed as to these conditions and be asked to correct them. Por reasons that arc plain such complaints are not signed; and the Department does not think they should be. Pneumonia is a dirty-air disease; and yet during the month of October 90 cases were reported to the Depart ment of Health as compared with only 26 cases for September. This tre mendous increase shows what hiberna tion does for the people of Chicago. When the weather is mild and doors and windows are kept open there is little pneumonia. But with the coming of cold weather and when people shut up their houses the pneumonia cases multiply with fearful rapidity. So do the deaths from the same dirty-air dis eases. JACK JOHNSON'S TROUBLES. Four indictments have been returned against Jack Johnson, the pugilist champion, under the Mann Act for im porting women for immoral purposes, and he is now under a $30,000 bond. If Jack Johnson has broken the law he deserves the punishment of the law and we hope he gets it, but it looks to ns as if all this publicity is given to it because Jack is a Negro and the women are Caucasians. Had Johnson mistreated girls of his own race in a similar manner the federal authorities would have considered it beneath their dignity to give it a- moment's consid eration. How can the white woman be other than good when the standing army of the government will be called out to make her good, and, on the other hand, the same army will be turned loose on the defenseless black girL Por Johnson we have no sym pathy because he knew that whether Attorneys William G. Anderson and Edward H. Wright Are Heart ily Congratulated on Being Able to Secure the Release of Jack Johnson From Prison On last Saturday morning the writer, called at the law office of attorney Will iam G. Anderson, 35 N. Clark Street, suite 5, to congratulate him upon his excellent work in securing the liberty on bond of champion John Arthur John son; on entering his office Mr. Ander son was surrounded by a host of friends who were giving vent to their feelings over the release of the cham pion. Later on -a visit was made to the law offices of Edward H. Wright, 125 West Van Buren Street, who with Mr. Anderson was the attorney for tho champion, and among those in his oiuces showering congratulations upon him wero William K. Cowan, George H. Walker, Mart Shoecraft and other friends, for the great effort ho put forth in bringing his release to a suc cessful end.. Among the celebrated cases tried and won by Attorney W. G. Anderson are the following: Captain George Wellington Streetcr, 01 the "Deestrict of Lake Michigan" fame, who was convicted of manslaugh ter and sentenced to life imprison ment for murder. Captain Streeter had tried, and spent over $5,000.00 it is said, among some of Chicago's best White lawyers trying to beat his case, wheiy they all "fell down.-' The doughty Captain sent for Attorney W. G. Anderson. He applied for a writ of Habeas Corpus before Judge Dunne, Oov.-Elect of Illinois. The Court re fused to discharge Captain Streeter, but Mr. Anderson immediately sued out a second writ and cited some old En glish cases which had been long for gotten, and occupied a whole day in presenting authorities and argument. Judge Dunne, before Mr. Anderson had finished his argument, said it would be unnecessary to cite further law, and issued the writ and discharged the Captain. Mr; Anderson scored another legal victory in the Banker Chas. Warren Spalding case. Spalding was formerly President of the defunct Globe Sav ings Bank, and was convicted of em bezzlement of funds of the University of Illinois. He had Chicago's best legal talent behind him, but they could not help him. Mr. Spalding's wife called on Mr. 'Anderson, and after a hard struggle before Judge Dunne, Spalding was finally set free. Another notable case won by Attor ney Anderson was the celebrated case of Fred. Woods and OHie Hubanks, tried before Judge Gridley in the crim inal court about a year ago. Attorney Anderson represented Woods, while At torney Barnett represented Hubanks. It was a cold-blooded murder. Woods and Hubanks had held up a saloon keeper on the West Side and shot him in the North, South, East or West, if be surrounded himself with a harem of white women, whether they be good or bad morally, he would get himself into legal entanglements. He was evi dently untrue to the white woman he called his wife, which drove her to commit suicide, and he had no sooner returned from her tomb than he began to lionize a bunch of others, and be came defiant when the parents of one of the girls protested. In good plain English, he was a damphool and de serves no mercy. The Republican Seattle, Washington, November 16, '12. PAYS 'COLORED, WIFE. That a new court of law would not countenance the Southern idea of a Colored person's legal rights is the conviction that was concretely im pressed upon the mind of Robert Ken yon Richardson, treasurer of the Chris tian Pood Co. last Saturday. He must pay his wife, Iva D. Mathews Richard son, a counsel fee of $100 and $10 a week alimony pending the trial of the action for a separation which she has begun against him. So Justice Newburger decided! Richardson contended he could not be held legally liable for alimony on the, ground that his marriage to his wife was not valid according to the laws of the State of Tennessee, because Mrs. Richardson had Colored blood in Ler veins. They were married in Memphis April 2, 1907. dead. Woods was caught in five min utes after the murder with the gun in his possession still, and the officer who made the arrest stated upon the witness stand that Woods admitted the killing. This case occupied the atten tion of tho Court for a whole week. Anderson's argument to the jury oc cupied a whole day. While the jury was deliberating friends of tho saloon keeper wero making bets in the court room that Woods would hang. Attorney Anderson's argument was a master piece of legal ingenuity. He so hyp notized and impressed the jury with his forcible and brilliant argument that the jury saved Woods' neck and gave him only 14 years in the peni tentiary. The verdict was so unex pected and so lenient that the brother of the saloonkeeper, immediately after it was read, said the jury was a dis grace to Chicago. Attorney Anderson also tried the celebrated John Collins murder case, also involving the killing of a saloon keeper, and got him off with only 14 years, notwithstanding that Collins' co-defendant in open court, as he was dying, admitted that Collins was also involved in the killing of the saloon keeper. It was through Attorney An derson's able argument to the jury that prevented the jury from bringing in a more severe penalty by reason of the fact that the co-defendant admitted in open court while dying that Collins was guilty. Another important case tried by Attorneys Anderson and E. H. Wright was the celebrated Steve Green case, who was charged with the killing of his boss in Arkansas. He escaped to Chicago and was captured and was on the eve of being taken back to Ar kansas and in fact the Sheriff did reach Cairo with the prisoner before any action had been taken. It was at this point that Attorneys Wright and Anderson with much dispatch through the weight of their legal acumen into the case, succeeded in having Green taken off the train at Cairo and re turned to Chicago. Finally after a hard fought battle in court they se cured his discharge. One of the notable cases won by Attorney Wright was the celebrated case of Antonio Bozza, an Italian, who was charged with tho murder of Joe Carlo, the husband of Mrs. Annie Carlo, the reigning queen of Little Italy. The case occupied the attention of Judge Clifford for four days, the speech of Attorney Wright on that occasion was a masterpiece of eloquence, and upon the completion of his more than able argument, the court and the state's attorney congratulated Attor ney Wright and he finally won the case getting his client off with a sentence of one year. A Tennessee statute, Richardson held, prohibits intermarriage of people of the black and white races. Richardson further states that July 30, 1910, he married Miss Bessie Waley, and that the plaintiff is merely his housekeeper at his residence, 610 West 152nd street. He charges in an affidavit that Mrs. Iva Richardson is "descended from Negroes within the third generation, and both her parents, are Negroes." The plaintiff denies there is any Negro blood in her veins, and says her mother was the daughter of an Indian chief and a white woman, while her father was born of Spanish and French parents. The Amsterdam News, New York City, November 16, '12. This same southern white gentleman who would have cast his Colored wife off like nnto an old worn out dish rag if ho Btill been residing in Tennessee, and the courts of that state would have in every way aided and npheld him in his dishonorable trick, but a far different story was in store for him when ho faced Justice Newburger who presides over one of the highest courts in the state of New York. Ed ifor. J. 8. Dorsey, the up-to-date Drug gist, who conducts tho Artesian Phar macy, corner of 27th and Dearborn St, is very much pleased with the articles appearing in Tho Broad Ax, from time to time on Jack Johnson and his troubles. ATTORNEY WILLIAM G. ANDERSON. One of Chicago's hustling lawyers, with the assistance of Attorney Ednrfa Wright, succeeded in securing the release of Jack Johnson from the Cock County jail after his white lawyers had made a mess of it and tlanq the job. HUNT 50 CAR MEN ACCUSED BY GIRL. Police Find Many South Side Con ductors and Motormen on "Off List." Five Appear in Court. Frances Thleland, 15 Years Old, Tells Story of Mistreatment to Judge. Fifty conuductors and motormen em ployed by the Chicago City Railway Company, who are alleged to have con tributed to the delinquency of Frances Thieland, who is 15 years old and lives at 3141 Calumet Avenue, are being sought by the police on "John Doe" warrants issued yesterday by Munic ipal Judge Newcomer. Five car men who were arrested sev eral days ago on complaint of the girl's parents were arraigned in court yester day and the charges against them continued to Dec. 13. The police in the meanwhile hope to arrest the others. A "tip" that the warrants for the arrest of many of the street car men would soon be issued resulted in an increase in the list of employes on 6ick leave, tho police say. The men arraigned are Joseph Ryan, 502S South Lincoln Street; John Dunne, 3221 Butler Street; George Ross, 941 West Thirty-second Street; Richard Cusack, 373S Parncll Avenue; and Frank Vincent, 245 East Thirty second Street. It might not be out of place to state that these fifty two-legged beasts are all White gentlemen. Editor. FATHER SENTENCED TO CELL ON LITTLE DAUGHTER'S CHARGE. After three minutes' deliberation, a jury in Judge Kersten's court returned a verdict of guilty in the case of Henry Williams, 36 years old, 1819 Cleveland Avenue, accused by his daughter. He was sentenced to an in determinate sentence of from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary. The complaining witness, 9 years old, testified that her father attacked her Oct. 4. Mr. Wimams, is a White gentleman, so the daily newspapers were so busy in their attempt to send Jack Johnson to the Pen, without giving him a trial, for attempting to make love to a White lady, who at one time hustled for business at the Everleigh Sisters' Club, that they could not denote any space to Mr. Williams and his raping of his own little daughter, -but if he was only a Negro it would be far dif ferent, for. then these same daily papers would have contained a full ac count of the horrible crime of the big burly black brute, as they greatly de light to refer to all Colored criminals. Editor. .THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH. 3825 Dearborn St, Bat. A. J. Carey, D. D, Ph. D. Minister. Two happy conversions and four ac cessions to the membership crowned the labors-of the Pastor last Sabbath evening. The converts were Mr. Theo dore Burton (who for a number, of years has held a responsible position in the Government service) and his wife Mrs. Minnie Burton. The Pastors sermon was from Paul's matchless words ,"Tho Greatest of these is Love." Dr. T. L. Scott of St, Paul C. M. E. Church preached Wednesday night and Dr. D. P. Roberts of Bethel, Ttan day night. Next week Dr. J. F. Thonas of Ebermeyer will preach Tuesday mgit and Mr. Hayes the great tenor ttJ be presented Wednesday night. Thanksgiving services will be Ml Thursday and an excellent dinner served Thursday afternoon and even ing. Sunday the Pastor will preach morn ing and evening. The Baby Rally wa3 a great success and Mrs. West deserves much credit. The Socials at the homes of lies dames Mitchem, Songs, Boslev, Bnci ner, Maxwell and Oliver all success TWO NEW INVENTIONS BY AT20 AMERICANS. Fred M. Johnson, a Negro gtoe trotter who fought at San Juan E2, has invented a belt feed rifle that w-2 fire 300 shots without stopping at the rate of 20 shots a second. Johnson has received word from the war depart ment that his rifle is considered one of the wonders of the age ani that it soon will receive a trial. Johnson is now a resident of Cleveland, Ohio. The Johnson gun is used ranch like an ordinary rifle, being about the sane weight and length, but instead of the regular stock, the rifle is equip:! with a brace which fastens to both shoulders, bringing the barrel level with the eye. John H. Cebolt of Indianapolis, Ini, has been granted a patent by the pit' ent office on his invention of nonpnnc turable tire for automobiles. His Ft ent tire can be punctured with a six r eight penny nail without causing the stopping for repairs. It is so constructed that no matter how badly the outside rim is punctured, the inside tire re mains intact. The invention will be a boon to automobile owners, and ought kto make a fortune for the inventor. THE LADIES' AUXILIARY DANCE WAS A VERY PLEASANT AITAE. Tuesday evening, the Ladles' Aux iliary of the Eighth Regiment Hte015 National Guards gave a dance at Ma sonic Hall, 3956 State Street, and w every way it was a most pleasant af fair. It was more like a home rart-v' ior every one seemed to know each and every one present, which made it cx" tremely agreeable and home lke "r all. Mrs. John B. Marshall, Mrs. James H. Johnson, Mrs. Louis B. Anderson, Miss Essie Arnold, Mrs. James S. son, Mrs, Robert R. Jackson, Mrs. T. Jefferson, Mrs. L. W. Lewis, M. S. A. McGowan and tLe other ladies connected with the Auxiliary were on hand early to greet the friends of tw regiment, some of them serving at the refreshment stands in the dining rooni. and they performed their parts we and to the queen's taste. All the ladies present were elegantly gowned, and they executed the Sparu-B waltz, the Del Norte, the schottisches, tne two steps and other waltzes most graceful manner. Adjutant-General Frank S. Dieksoa was present 'and freely mingled wit part of the 400 Afro-Americans in CW cago. fl The music was furnished by w5 eighth Regiment Baud. k: nsftapf ii