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Show JOHNSON WEBS PITTSBUHG.Keh.-9. Looking, over-old over-old dockets the olerks of the marriage license office here have discovered that John A Johnson, better known ns Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight heavy-weight fighter, received n marriage license li-cense on January IS, 1911, and that no return slip has been returned to the office. Efforts to communicate with Johnson, John-son, it is said, have proved fruitless A letter addressed to him has been returned from Chicago. The llcenso was Issued to Johnson, negro, and Etta H Ruryea, white, who gave hoi residence resi-dence as Chicago. Another effort will be made to have Johnson state who performed the ceremony, so that the return may be filed with the application Does Not Deny Report. CHICAGO, Feb. 9 "Jack" Johnson, champion pugilist, tonight confirmed tho report that he had obtained a marriage license In Pittsburg, and said further that he had married Etta H, Duryea In Pittsburg shortly afterward after-ward Johnson said tho marriage was open and legal and thoro could be no blame attached. Mrs Johnson, ho said, obtained a divorce from Clarence Duryea In Chicago Chi-cago about eighteen months ago through G A Bcerly, a Chicago law-ler. law-ler. Duryea was served In the suit, but defaulted, and the service was sent to his home in Malone, N. Y Mrs. Johnson said tonight she had lived at Hompstoad, L. l., but would not dlBcuss her former husband. John-sond John-sond said- "I married Mrs. Duryea aocretly. She had been divorced a year before. Mrs. Duryea startod Uio suit herbelf. I knew nothing about her former husband, hus-band, never having seen him so far as I know. All I know Is that she Is my wife and who she was before that concorns no one." Known at Hempstead. HEMPSTEAD, N. Y. Fob. 9 Etta Terry was the name of Mrs Claronce E. Duryea of this place She was the daughter of David Terry, a member of an old-time Long Island family, who died about three weoxs ago. She married Clarence Duryea about nlno years ago, friends of the family recalled here touighL Duryea, the Bon of tho John Duryea, a wealthy retired .commission merchant mer-chant of Now York, wub a singer in a cnthedral choir at Garden City, and both he and his wife went on tho light opera stage not long after their marriage. mar-riage. They scparatod and ultimately were divorced, frlendB here wore informed, in-formed, and Duryea joined his father in northern New York, where ho now liveb. |