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Show JOHNSON BEGINS TRIP to no 'Former Champion Will Not Be in Ogden as Schedule Has Been Changed Li6k ANGELES, Cal., July 29. -lack Johnson n jrro. former heavy Weight I champion pugilist, left here at 10 a. in., today. In custody ol officers, for Chicago when- he is under sentence for violation of the Mann net A lurgi-; number of people, most of them col- ored, gave the pugilist an ovation at the depot oefore he left. i n arriving at the depot Johnson fought his way through the croud making room for a deput I'nlterl j States marshal behind him Latei be P'jsed on the Train's rear plutforrn for 'motion picture camera men. j The negro's white wife went east; on the, same train Originally it was planned Johnson would leave at 9 and i ;go through Salt Lekft nabllitj to obtain nrcommodatlon8 delayed the dep.' rt in . ii'j '.. . . ' i .ui. i one through lbuquerque and Kansas jClly. Johnson told ne wspaper men he had been treated royally here and wanted j jto thank the officers for their eonsld-. ;eratlon He said he would light his 'ca.se In Chicago j Johnson lias been In the county Jail here since Tuesday, when he surrendered surren-dered at the Mexican border, bolow San Diego. f'or about five years he ; has beep classed by officers as a fugitive fugi-tive r ioin Until C NO I HANDCUFFED. At no time since hi surrender has Johnson heen handcuffed, federal of-1 tlclals said Fear of being manacled had deterred Johnson's surrender se -eiul days, bin no promise had been made that handcuffs would not be iused. the authorities said Johnson's baggage on the journi included a pair of dice discovered i when he was searched In the countv jail here It Is my desire to make my case clear before the people, so thai the) will not be laboring under the Impression Impres-sion that all the bud things said :ibout m are tiu " Johnson said. I have made many mistakes and am sorry Had I known that all this tiouble would have been brought upon up-on me by defeating Jim Jeffries at R no. I would have laid down iu I Just a9 1 did to Willard In Havana COULDN'T i:list. 'DurinR the war I called upon the American smbSSS) In Madrid asking th officials there if I could enlist. It was Impossible "A few mon;hs later Major Lone, attache of the L'nlted States army In Madrid, asked me If I would do certain cer-tain secret service work for the government gov-ernment along Die coast of Spain Working under a Captain Ffewaett, near Malaga, on the. Mediterranean, I Ifound many important things, nmonp them a submarine base, and where and how German submarine obtained their oil and gas Durlnr all tliK tlm-I tlm-I paid one-half of my own expenses ' |