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Show GOVERNOR CORNWELL! FLAYS M'CALL ACT CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov. 20. Characterizing tiie refusal of (iovernor McCall of Massachusetts to honor his requisition for the return to West Virginia Vir-ginia for (rial of John Johnson, a. negro, charged with attacking a white girl in this city, as constituting "a reflection upon the state of West Vii ginia and shows a deplorabel lack of knowledge of It a nd its people." Governor .John J. ; Coruwe!) late today made public a letter w hien lie had written to the Massachusetts Massa-chusetts executive. The crime with which Johnson is eha rg?d is an a ttacl; on Nellie Kellen-berker, Kellen-berker, a 14-year-old white girl, alleged in have been committed in December. l!'l . Nine persons were indict ed in the case, seven of whom now are serving .sentences for the crime. |