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Show ft He an Artful i John Allan Crofts is the name of one of the strong men who recently came to the States from England for the purpose pur-pose of giving exhibitions of weight lifting and boxing for a fixed salary, agreed upon before sailing the seas over, lie appeared at the Barge Office at New York on Monday, July 20, and asked to be sent home, alleging that he was a contract laborer. He produced his contract, made at Dewsbury, Eng.. between his managers, Harry .1. Edwards and J. S. Stephens and himself, on May 16. They agreed to nay him 3 0s. a week and his expense for performing with their combination in the United States. He says that the show turned out a failure and that he wants to get back to England. Eng-land. He doesn't want his former managers prosecuted unless that will cause him to be returned. Chief Contract Con-tract Labor Inspector Miiholland said he could do nothing for the weight-lifter weight-lifter until the Treasury Department decided whether or not Slavin, the pugilist, pu-gilist, is an artist. If Slavin ia an artist then Crofts is an artist. |