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Show I-) MAY BE WHITE SLAVER. Federal Officers Will Investifjate Ca6o of j Negro Under Jail Sentence. ' Special to Tl.c Tribune, , i OGDEN, Sept. 18. Ninetv day:,- in the , city Jail with prospects of a federal 1 charge of white slaverv being lodged ' against him when that sonkeiicchas boon . completed, was the result of the hearing given Harry Johnson, colored, before Judge W. H. Reeder this morning. Johnson John-son was convicted and sentenced todav on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. wea-pons. 1 Johnson was arrested yesterday In company with Eva Parson, a white woman. wom-an. "When arraigned th0 negro declared that he hnd not abused the woman or taken thu money she hnd earned. The woman was placed on the witness stand and not only declared that Johnson had taken her money but said he hud ofton struck and kicked her because she did not earn more. The police hcllevc that under the new amendment to the while Have act Johnson can be convicted on , the ohargo of slavery. A Salt bake fr-d- li MiOfC0,ls co,n,K this city to in- Jl cstlgate thu case. |