Show GREAT GREA T CITY OF NEW YORK YORKI I GOES WRONG ON JOHNSON u n Bob Edgren writing for the New York World says that there is too much being made of the Jack Johnson assault case His views on the matter will find many supporters among the followers of the boxing game In America who think that every one who has a chance to pick on the big black man is doing so particular ly lIp where there is a chance to make either money or notoriety by doing so Edgren I says Heroic attempts are being made by the great City of or New York to fasten upon one Jack Johnson the enormous crime of having punched another gent of his own color Of course there are a thousand thou and similar cases every day in the year but they are mere vulgar brawls and as a rule the participants raise a dollar bill between them to fatten lawyers But Johnson another thing He punches a nose let the affairs stand still while justice is done upon the scoundrel or at least as long longas as he has a cent left Soberly there is altogether too much hullabaloo over this Johnson matter Johnson may not be the most desirable citizen in the tho United States but he the most undesirable by a 11 long shot Id be willing to risk a or two on the proposition that two times out of five Johnsons arrests are engineered by someone hankering for a reputation and not less than two more for the purposes of making him cough up Id wager real money that Johnson could tell a tale of or graft that would make the Albany investigation look like a smallest pike New York is a funny village It grows horribly solemn over some insignificant thing like this affair and lets real murder and arson go by with hardly a glance Speaking from experience experience I j jence ence Ill relate a small t tI I happened to know of a case a short time ago where five lve or six Italian laborers surrounded another Italian in an open lot In plain view from the street going to meet him as he walked past pest and ana drawing knives slashed and attempted to tokUl kill kUl him One of ot the Italians finally y struck the tho struggling man over th the h head bead ad with a spade and they left him lying on Ii the footpath apparently done for while the attack was going on a woman stood on the sidewalk screaming The Italian laborers went back to work on a building half a block away After awhile an am ambulance ambulance ambulance came and carried off the fallen fall n man manNo manNo I I INo No Investigation of the tho was ever made by the police pollee as I hap baD happen happen pen to know personally No attempt W was ws s sever ever made to Identify or arrest the assassins I dont know whether or not 1 the man died In the hospital and what difference did it make m New York YOCk fent Int t I IL interested in little things like that It was only a stabbing 9 But Johnson he punched a man on the nose Also it is said eald he bumped him with a chair Horrors Turn loose T Ie ose se the 1 full power of ot the city efty Let Lt no pollee of officer f fleer Ii leer fleer or court of justice rest until Justice is done I Ii i |