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Show District Attorney Probes Mystery Of Johnson and Spanish Woman Champion Pugilist Finally Admits Wis Marriage to Divorcee Who Says She Was Formerly Wife of C. E. Duryea. By Inlernatlonal News Service. PITTSBURG. Feb. D. The office of I hi district attorney of Allegheny county is threatening to prosecute Jack .lohnpoii, heavyweight riiip: champion, for the a Hoped practice of fraud when he pot a marriage, license while appearing at the Academy theater with "The Rolllekcrs, January IS of last, year. The woman said her nnino was Mrs. Etta. IL Duryea, Tho fact of the securing of tho license and tho activity of the' district attorney's attor-ney's ofhc In the matter leaked out today. to-day. Georgo W. Watson, who at the time was one of the marriage license clerks, slated lonlght that late on the afternoon of January 1S Johnson arrived at the marriage license ofllco accompanied accom-panied by a tall, handsome young woman wom-an and asked for a license The woman told Watson that she was of Spanish descent and had been married mar-ried to Clarence E. Duryea, a well-known well-known society man nnd turfman of Hempstead. L. I.. In .Tun. 1901. but got a divorce In Chicago during December, 1010. Later sho met Johnson, and after a courtship finally came to Pittsburg to marry him. She pavo hor age as 2!) years. Johnson gave his age as" 32 years and staled that his home was In Chicago Chi-cago and that he was a teacher of physical physi-cal culture, also that he never had been married. It Is reported here tonight that an alderman, whose name has been withheld, with-held, performed tho ceremony and kept It quiet, having received 5500 for do-lnp do-lnp .o. The records of the marriage llccuse office of-fice show no return has been made and Johnson hnn paid no attention to inquiries in-quiries addressed to him by mall asking for t lie Information needed to complete the oftlcial record. As a result the matter was turned ovr to the district attorney, who has received I Information that Johnson' laid another wife when he applied for the license. I Johnson Admits Marriage, CHICAGO. Fob. fl. "Jack" Johnson, champion pugilist, tonight confirm" the report that he had obtained a marriage license in Pittsburg and said further that he had married Etta M. Duryea In Pittsburg, shortly I hereafter. Johnson said tho marrlago was open and legal and there could be no blame attached. Mrs. Johnson, he said, obtained a divorce di-vorce from Clarence Durvca in Chicago about eighteen months ago through G. A. Beerly. a Chicago lawyer. Durvca wan served In tho suit, hut defaulted nnd the service was sent to his home In Malone. N. V. Mis. Johnson said lonlght lo-nlght site had lived at Hompsiead. L. 1.. but would not discuss her former husband. hus-band. JohiiHon said: "I married Mrs. Duryea secretly. She had been divorced a year before." Mrs. Duryea started the suit herself. I knew nothing about her former husband, never having seen him so far as I know. All I know is that she is mv wife and who she was before that concerns no one." HEMPSTEAD. Is. V.. Feb. n. Etta Terry was the maiden name of Mrs. Clarence E. Duryea of this place. She was the daughter of David Terry, member mem-ber of an old-time lxing Island family, who died about three weeks ago. She married Clarence Duryea about nine years ago. friends of the family recalled re-called hero tonight. Duryea, the son of John Duryea, a wealthy, retired commission merchant of New York, wan a singer In a cathedral choir at Garden City, and both he and his wife went on tho light opera stage not long after their marriage. Thev separated and ultimately were divorced friends here were Informed, and Duryea Joined bis father in northern New York. where he now Ilv c s . |