JACK JOHNSON’S CONVICTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3190, 8 April 1911, Page 10

JACK JOHNSON’S CONVICTION.

“PLEADED GUILTY SY MISTAKE.”

WILL WRITE A BOOK

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 ;

Jack Johnson has had the- most Unpleasant of his many unpleasant experiences. He- libs - been sent to gaol for 25 days. ' , Johnson conducted ins own case, ancl when his punishment was'recorded by the. judge lie appealed. He had been smiling very •■broadly during the hearing of the police cffker’s evidence.. and inc.iiitkmsly, had pleaded guilty, meanwhile ostentatiously displaying a bundle of notes with which to pay his fine. When lie heard that he was to go to gaol the smik> camo right off his face, and his mouth closed with a snap. Johnson was an extremely mad man tor a- moment cr two. Then lie said to the judge, Can 1 appeal, sir?” , .1, . “No,” replied the judge, who was now doing all the smiling. “You conducted your own case, and you advised yourself ha ell y. More than that ypu have violated all your promises to desistfrom speeding. Go to gaol.” Hie colored pugilist departed from the court a sadder but a wiser man. He -says lie will never plead guilty again ' , , , . Arrangements have been made by lus wife and other friends to get him special accommodation -at the county gaol, and his food will! be taken to him from an adjacent restaurant. Chickens, champagne and water - melons comprise the major part of Johnsons -diet" He says he’d have been unhappy without chickens, and he means to pass away the time hy starting on a work which he has long thought of writing dealing with liis experiences m •and out of the ring.