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THE DAY NEW LONDON, CONN TEUSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 14, 1920

PENITENTIARY FOR BIG JACK JOHNSON Former World's cham- pion Sentenced to One Year and Day and Fine of $1,000 Is Imposed

_ CHICAGO, Sept. 14. - Jack Johnson, former world's heavyweight champion, was sentenced to one year and a day in Leavenworth penitentiary and fined $1,000 today by Federal Judge George A. Carpenter for violation of the Mann act. _ The sentence reaffirmed that passed on Johnson in 1913, when he was con- victed of transporting a white girl from Pittsburgh to Chicago for immoral purposes. Johnson later fled to Eu- rope, forfeiting his $30,000 bonds, and from then until a few weeks ago, when he surrendered on the Lower California border, he was a fugitive from justice. _ Johnson's first wife committed sui- cide in 1913 and he thereupon married Lucile Cameron, the principal white witness for the state. _ Since his return to Illinois Johnson has been boxing daily in his jail cell, in anticipation that he might be re- leased and permitted to take up fight- ing again.

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