Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 10 | Maxine Dempsey May Not Take Stand in Trial of Champion

IMaxine Dempsey May Not Take Stand in Trial of Champion WASHINGTON, April 5. Max-ine Max-ine Dempsey, divorced wife of Jack Dempsey, world's heavy- weight boxing champion, probably , will not testify against the cham-( cham-( pion when his trial comes up in ,i San Francisco in two weeks an charges of evading the draft-law. If the champion waives" the right of excluding her, which Is a privl-, privl-, lege accorded to the defendant ! -under the federal court procedure, 1 she may be called to the stand, 1 but otherwise she will- not figure ' .in the trial of the champion. I This was disclosed here by Miss 'Annette Adams. United States district dis-trict attorney for the northern district dis-trict of California, who left last night for San Francisco, after consulting con-sulting the department of justice regarding Dempsey's prosecution, scheduled to begin April 17 ' There are. two counts In the In-dictincnt In-dictincnt against Dempsey, the first charging conspiracy with in-! in-! i ' tent to evade the federal selective service law. The second count charges him with tho violation of the law itself. Jack Kearns, hl3 manager, will be triod on a conspiracy con-spiracy ohargc, as he was in no way personally Involved in the charge of actually evading the law.