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Show JOHNSON APPHLS I TO SOPH COURT 'Champion Heavyweight Pugilist Pug-ilist Will Test Constitutionality Constitution-ality of the Mann Act r fcy International Newe Servlc. 1 CHICAGO. Nov. 9. Orderinc his law- 13 yers about like a mist magnate, Jack ' 1 Johnson, negro champion heavyweight pngilist and now a prisoner in the Cook , county jail, 'determined today to carry his fight for release on bonds at onco to . the supreme court of tbo United States. Ho wiil attack the constitutionality of r tbo Mann act, which ho is charged by ' an indictment of the federal prand jury with having violated in bringing :v worn- n from Pittsburg to Chicago for unlaw- ( fill purposes. 'x Attorney-Benjamin C. Bachrach will leave for Washington tomorrow to pre jient the pugilist's petition at its regu lar v.eekly session Hon day. The deter mination to carry the fight to tho court t of last resort followed a refusal by Judge Carpenter of the United States district court ioday to release Johnson II on a writ or habeas corpus. Beaten round by round in his efforts I in tho lower court to aecuro acceptance -' of a caiM bond, or bail offered by a suro- I iv company, the black champion to- L night, in his cell, with his face buried j in his famous flghtinc hands, was tho L. picture ot despair. Tho buoyant confi- rience which he ha-d previously displayed in tho power of his money to extricate him from difficulties appeared to have n left him. L It became known toda that the d- partment of justico haJ unearthed evi dence not only that Johnson caused Belle Schreiber, the whito woman named in the indictment, to como to Chicago, but that he set her up in "business " as i part owner of a resort in tho south side "Wbcn tho case against Jack Johnson John-son ih presented to a jury it will not oven be open tolobatc," said a government govern-ment lawyer. riT7iorc could not bo a J plainer cac of whito slavery in viola tion of tho Mann act." "Tho supremo court has never ruled ( on the constitutionality of tho Mann art," said Attorney Bachrach. "There aro live different cases in which the question is involved now on the docket of tho court and sot for argument in the i .lanuar term. Wc hone to have the Johnsou case argued at" tho same time ; and will vsk for acceptance of bail pending tbefio proceedings." |