diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/src/rnn/test_char_rnn.clj b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/src/rnn/test_char_rnn.clj
index d03b1a6b36e4..22a2982f222b 100644
--- a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/src/rnn/test_char_rnn.clj
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/src/rnn/test_char_rnn.clj
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 (ns rnn.test-char-rnn
   (:require [clojure.string :as string]
+            [clojure.java.shell :refer [sh]]
             [rnn.util :as util]
             [rnn.lstm :as lstm]
             [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.context :as context]
@@ -24,6 +25,9 @@
             [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.module :as m]
             [org.apache.clojure-mxnet.ndarray :as ndarray]))
 
+(when-not (.exists (clojure.java.io/file "data"))
+  (do (println "Retrieving data...") (sh "./get_data.sh")))
+
 (def data-path "data/obama.txt")
 (def model-prefix)
 (def start-sentence "The joke ")
diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/src/rnn/train_char_rnn.clj b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/src/rnn/train_char_rnn.clj
index 325f636561c2..41a764f7af95 100644
--- a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/src/rnn/train_char_rnn.clj
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/src/rnn/train_char_rnn.clj
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 (ns rnn.train-char-rnn
   (:require  [clojure.string :as string]
+             [clojure.java.shell :refer [sh]]
              [rnn.util :as util]
              [rnn.lstm :as lstm]
              [rnn.test-char-rnn :as test-rnn]
@@ -34,6 +35,9 @@
 
 ;;/~https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/master/example/rnn/old/char-rnn.ipynb
 
+(when-not (.exists (clojure.java.io/file "data"))
+  (do (println "Retrieving data...") (sh "./get_data.sh")))
+
 ;; batch size for training
 (def batch-size 32)
 ;; we can support various length input
@@ -58,9 +62,6 @@
 (def data-path "data/obama.txt")
 (def vocab (util/build-vocab data-path))
 
-(when-not (.exists (io/file "data"))
-  (do (println "Retrieving data...") (sh "./get_data.sh")))
-
 ;; generate the symbol for a length
 (defn sym-gen [seq-len]
   (lstm/lstm-unroll num-lstm-layer seq-len (inc (count vocab))
diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/test/rnn/core_test.clj b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/test/rnn/core_test.clj
index ac4f5014e18c..b198577241c3 100644
--- a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/test/rnn/core_test.clj
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/rnn/test/rnn/core_test.clj
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 (ns rnn.core_test
  (:require 
- 	[rnn.train-char-rnn] ;  this will load the data files
  	[rnn.test-char-rnn :as rnn]
  	[clojure.test :refer :all]))
 
diff --git a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/tutorial/project.clj b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/tutorial/project.clj
index 3bcfc0289644..58a10f04f28b 100644
--- a/contrib/clojure-package/examples/tutorial/project.clj
+++ b/contrib/clojure-package/examples/tutorial/project.clj
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   :description "MXNET tutorials"
   :plugins [[lein-cljfmt "0.5.7"]]
   :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.9.0"]
-  				 [org.apache.mxnet.contrib.clojure/clojure-mxnet "1.4.0-SNAPSHOT"]
+  				 [org.apache.mxnet.contrib.clojure/clojure-mxnet "1.5.0-SNAPSHOT"]
 
                  ;; Uncomment the one appropriate for your machine & configuration:
                  #_[org.apache.mxnet.contrib.clojure/clojure-mxnet-linux-cpu "1.4.0"]