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_ 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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