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Show Denies Charges of Non-Support and Cruelty Made By Wife. SAN I'RANCISCO. June 14. William Wil-liam Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion of tho world, took the witness stand in his own defense today in his trial here on charges of evading the seloctlve draft act. DempEoy denied charges of non-support non-support and cruelty made by his for-I for-I mr wife, Mrs. Maxlno Dempsey, in testimony given earlier In the trial. Dempsey described himself as having hav-ing been the principal support of his family from tho time he was 14 years old. He detailed experiences as a farm hand, miner, carpenter and boxer, box-er, experiencing reverses when "the the end .as a budding champion. Dompsey said he had supported his wife until sho VSwti i Derif c&J&'tt otIis-u at Wl f e's Jaw. He denied that he had broken his wiro'3 Jaw by a blow while they were living at a hotel here, tiB she had charged, "because she had not earned any money ioi' him." Dempsey said ne never had struck his wife and that tho Jaw fracture was caused by a fall. Dempsey said his earnings In tho ring for 1 1 17 were about $4,u00. Tho next year a-large part of his time was spont in appeal ances at patriotic bene-rits, bene-rits, out or which, he said, "besides traveling expanses, he got two wri3t watehes ana a gold pencil." "I wantod to do mo country some good," ho said in explanation of his uoxing tor nothing. ' Did any of your opponents get anything for these matcnes?" he was uBxed. iSo. Onco Wlllard was to get $30,-000 $30,-000 in Chicago," Dempsey replied. Wll'o Left Him in 1917. Early In 1917, soon after his marriage, mar-riage, Dempsey said, he left his wife in, San Francisco whilo he went back to Salt Lane to box. He returned ten days later to find ner gone; discovered her living with her brother In an apartment house. Boxing promotors then told him he was worth 'about 30 cents" to them, because of remarks his wlfah m.o about ni3 "laying down to Flynn," the witness said. -Soon after they went to Seattle, ho paying all the bills as usual, Dempsey continued. From Seattle his wife went to Ya-10 Ya-10 aee ner mother, the pugilist testified, while he got a job in the shipyards on account of dullness In the boxing gamo, but she failed to return re-turn to him and. did not answer his letters. Dernpsey told of his work as a government gov-ernment recruiting agent for the snip-yards snip-yards lato in 191J, saying ho "guessed he got three or .four hundred men" to work in tho Philadelphia yards Cross-examination failed to alter or confuse his testimony. Tho defense announced that only one or two witnesses wit-nesses would be called. W. H. Stolurow, a traveling salesman sales-man of St. Paul, testified he wroto most of the answers to Dempsoy's questionnaire at a Chicago hotel H said ho had done it in a spirit of friendly co-operation, and that noth-ng noth-ng was said to Indicate anything on the part of Dempsoy or his manager 1 Jack Kearns, but a desire to answori the questionnaire honestly. Dempsey I corroborated his testimony, and a. I similar story was told by L. Llchton-' stein of Chicago, In whose room tho I paper was signed. |