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Show TAKES POLICE POME I JO ARREST J0HXS0X TKrjRE l-IAl.TK.-lnd.. Jan. Jack Johnson refused to fulfill his contract to appear at a Torre Haute theater today, and the manager attached his trunks as he was about to board a train for Coin Co-in mbtiE. O. Juliusou. said the theater was too cold. When a constable served Hie writ on Johnson he mounted his baggage, and said he would "hit the first man who touched It." The constable called the police, and the fighter hacked down when Captain Armstrong brought enough men to take him to jail. Johnson later tried to engage a special spe-cial train, but failed, and. when he saw his belongings dumped on a dray, he told his manager he would stay here until un-til tomorrow and fight the case. |