Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-03-15 | Page 3 | Johnson Cannot Bring White Wife to Texas

JOHNSON CANNOT BRING WHITE WIFE TO TEXAS Galveston GaJ Tex TeL March 14 It H.-It If Champion Champion Champion Cham Cham- pion Jack Johnson brings his white wife to Galveston ho lie will be bc prosecuted tI under tho the Texas Taxa Jaws yaws forbidding whites whitesand whitesand and blacks bl marrying Time The reports that Johnson has hns a u negro wife living hero here brou brought t a reply from Johnson saying ho 10 was legally from rom her liar and he 10 would bring his white wife with him Johnson bases the time derance of ot time the prosecution on tho the grounds that the marriage tl to a 11 white w woman did tIld not take place pineo In Texas Tho The Fe Federal elal Su Su- Su- Su premo court has hns rul ruled that the thc state has a n. right to prevent the union of or whites whiten and blacks and Impose penalties penalties penal penal- ties even J If tbt they were weme married In a n state stat permitting marriages of or whites whitesand whitesand and antl blacks