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Show lllSTIffiLS f EOIED fchnson Says Wife Lost Health Caring for Him Af- BWICE SAVED HIM teM FR0M KILLING SELF phampion Claims He Is Still ire Suffering From the Effects iis-ft of the Reno Battle. ent .KCHICAGO. Sept. 12. TSIra. Etta Durj-ea n. hihnBon. wife of Jack Johnnon. cham-DljKn cham-DljKn heavyweight pugilist, died a suicide Bter wrecking licr health In carlnjr for fiU jKcr husband, who was a victim of ncr-ML ncr-ML proftmtion and suicidal mania for year on account of Injuries and exer-Bon exer-Bon during his nght with Jeffries. This K th testimony of Johnson at Iho In-Kirft In-Kirft todav over the body of Mrc. Johns' John-s' Hon who shot herself last night In her c K'a'rtnicnt ovnr the champlon'H saloon. (l Johnson said the nature- nnd extent of . IBs sufferings after thu championship ilf-jht had been a secret botween hla wife nm'stIM suffering from the eftects of Kj HtBt flplit. to some extent." he sold. (il. Rjohneon was In tears. He said his Blfo's efforts to keep him from commlt- (Boft" he"'"' K&ved Him Twice. res I K"I bellnvo I incurred brain fever or i jHonic similar derangement from the ex-BHons ex-BHons and tho heat of the Jeffries fight. Ill Kwhb not mysolf for a year, but tho Secret waa closely kept between mo and Hjrs. Johnson. She saved mo twice when HJirJftd to choke myself to death. i R'Sho seized mo and struggled with me all lnl prevented tho act She had an awful Kmc tuklng enro of me for over a year. MS gam only telling this now In Justice to .. Bp- wife- It never lias been told before." 1 Tlic Jury roturncd a verdict that Mrs. I'M onnsoii committed sulcldo while tcmpo- Ktilly Insane. fugiliat Tells Story. HiJnrk Johnson, In telling lh clrcum-irv clrcum-irv Btancts Hut led to his wife's death, said: ij ra"Diirlng the last two years she often , Hold tne she was tired of living. Sho ' 1 jiff J to kill herself on two occasions. 1.0 Bncii Rbe attempted to Jump out of a iHi'Iiidow In a London hotel and previous K thut Khn tried to tako her Hfo by Hwplng from a train out west. did all I could to make her happy m HjDd spent money on her lavishly, but ,ul .Jjost uf the tlmosho seemed Mcspondent, mi Bcr father died iour years ago and slnco ' iBie" SMe Ccrnc(1 more nervouB and de-iu; de-iu; pondent than before. .j K"I employed two maids to watch hcr HtUr alio attempted to end her life tho Mrat time, and on of them was constant- .IB' with her. Yesterday morning she IcSHeemcd in especially good spirits and .1 HK no ldia sho would kill herself. jjjt Says Stories Untrue. ' & 1B"T1iu stories that there was domestic Hpublc between my wlfo and my mother Hfi'l sister arc untrue, because they both BJcro very fond of her. My wife and my-l( my-l( mado our wills several mouths ago, rd''Mch ngreelng to leave all the property Amp the one who survived. H'My was ufferin;r from nervous rostrntlon when T marrlod tier and had Wn under tho caro of physicians ever B"AfUr my fight with Jeffries I had a Mfrrous breakdown and the doctors want-Bp want-Bp to xmid me to a. f-aiiiturhnii. HJV'Slie would not let me go and nursed Hn? day and night for months." B-Deaplte Johnson's protestations that . Hjwn was nothing but tho best; of feol-HPe feol-HPe between members ot his family and Bs wife, tho pugilist's mother was not j, roscnl at the inquest. |
