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pr - v& ' ' W3?cE THE- DAY BOOK SOtt S. 'PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. 1,'No. 252.' Chicago, Wednesday, July 17, 1912. One Cent SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN N. Y. MURDER. my Wew York, July 17. JfoIIow ing-tne muraer or Herman Rosen thal, who was expected to give damaging testimony before the grand jury as to the alleged con nection between the police forcb and gamblers in New York, rela tions were strained between the .district attorney's office and the police force. The most sensational develop ment of the tense situation today was the identification by a mys terious woman of the car used by Rosenthal's njurderers as one she had seen standing befqre the house of Police Lieut. Becker be tween the hours of 6 and" 9 p. m. the night of the murder. District Attorney Whitman allowed the woman to vie wthe green car and she declared it was the same-she had seen in front of Becker's home. Police Commissioner Rhine lander Waldo declared the police could .not "break up gambling be cause slight penalties were in dicted when arrests were made. In a letter to Whitman he de manded that the investigation be pushed to the end and condemned the" district attorney for his charge that the police system was responsible for Rosenthal's 'murder- - . - Whitman said he did not in clude the department asa whole in his accusations. Libby and Shapiro, occupants of the death auto, were-held -with-out'bail on a homicide charge this afternoon. Libby is alleged to have been the chauffeur. -o--o- CAN ONLY SAY 'OH PIFFLE St. Louis, July 17. If you have a parrot with a voice perfectly at tuned to profanity, and if you are succeeding- in teaching the bird several expressions not heard in Sunday school, and if your wife steps in and refuses -.to allow the bird to speak its mind Wouldn't it make you want to commit suicide. 1 Richard Sheppard, 35, says it would. Twice he attempted to take poison because his wife in terfered with the training of their "child." When Sheppard attempt ed to train the bird in wrong ways Mrs. Sheppard butted in and said her "darling" was a perfect dear and shouldn't hear horrid swear words. She had her way. The parrot's strongest exclamation is "Oh, piffle." Then Sheppard bought a dime's worth of rat poison and said he was going "where he could teach parrots anything he wanted to." , He hasn't gone. in m I il :ll 11 m I i