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__.is OFT INSA of New York, Oct. 24.—Mra” David Terry, widowed mother of Etta Duryea-Johnson, the white wife of Jack Johnson, who killed herself Sept. 14, was told the story of Johnson and Lucille emerun wary, Etta Duryea -Johnson shot and killed herself in her rooms above the Cafe de Champion, Chicago, after she had found Lucille Cam eron in the arms of her negro hus band. Mrs. Terry has been broken in health ever since that tragedy. She is under the constant care of a physician in her Brooklyn home After listening to the Lucille Cameron story, Mrs. Terry gave out the following statement, con taining some of her own expe riences with the megro prize fighter: By Mrs. David Terry. It would be wrong for me to say what ought to be done with the husband of my dead daughter. It is not for me to judge, It is for God. ‘But every night a prayer goes up from my pillow | * ~ God to send upon this man ‘shment he deserves. weeks ago I had a vision of Jack Johnson's end. [believe it vision was God's promise of insishment” we all beat on a beautiful daughter), glorified to that a ds y bload tusbat:’ only Px giant, 1 man Tose! out of 30.. ~, eID 3 OF BLACK PUG [Beerafted for the boat bar hands, as if he would cry sit. But he missed, and my daugh ter rowed away with a ripple of hea *lughter on her lips. The vet turned black as ink and swallowed the black man up. It was all so real it frightened , although T I am a pract*cal man and not given to visions. Why my daughter married Joh-son I do not know. But El la never was right in her mind, and I have attributed men things to that. I believe she killed herself, not a fit of madness, but in a fit of few clear-seeing and unders ying. I believe the mental lifted from her for a moment, and revealed her posson in all 's hideousness. No one will ever know how cruel Johnson was to Etta. She was mortally afraid of him. He beat her so she had to go to the hospital for treatment. Not long before she killed herself she ran away. She hid in a Chicago hotel. Johnson set detectives on her trail, and found her, are forc ed her to return. L have seen Etta with black, and great bruise her face, with aus]
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Chicago Day Book
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 24, 1912
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