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gtan& jury1' which" httficte"d him for bigamy. The Day Book today asked McGrath if he had taken any steps toward locating Sims with a view to arresting him. - "Why, no," said McGrath. "I haven't the least idea where Sjms is now." "Have you made any effort to find Sims at all?" McGrath, was asked. "Oh, don't bother me," he an swered. "If you are so disturbed about this man Sims why don't you find him and arrest him your self?" "Do you mean that The Day Book should find Sims and arrest him?" "Sure," said McGrath. "So far as I can make out you are the only people that are bothering about Sims." "Have you ever heard of Mrs. F. A. Cass, the mother of the girl Sims trapped into a bigamous marriage?" J'Yes, I've heard of her," said McGrath. "Have you eevr heard that Mrs. Cass is worried about her daughter?" "I heard something about it," said the man Andy Lawrence chose for tlerk of the Superior Court. ''Then in that case it is not true that The Day Book is the only one bothering about Sims? At this point McGrath relapsed into intense silence- and refused to answer any more questions. Clifford Fail, the Daily News t deputy sheriff who "was with Ed ward Meyers when Meyers tried to hold up Rutherford Cook and was shot and killed by Cook, and who now is under indictment for highway robbery, says that Sims is a good friend of his. "I saw Sims one week ago Fri day," said Fail today. "He told me that he was going to take Hil da Cass and beat it out of the city. He told me to tell Meyers that he would write him. "Sims didn't seem to be wor rying about the indictment against him. He was perfectly sure he would be allowed to leave the city ." o o LORIMER SERIOUSLY ILL Former United States Senator William Lorimer is seriously ill today. An operation for .appendi citis is necessary to save his life. A consultation of physicians was held early today. It was de cided that Dr. John B. Murphy, the famous surgeany should per form the operation if he returned from the east tonight, as is ex pected. l Meanwhile nurses and doctors are working desperately to stay the progress of the former sena tor's illness. The first serious attack of the illness occurred Sunday night. Iiorimer was then planning 'a speaking tour of the state, in which he intended to speak in every county of the state and ex plain his side of the fight by which he was ousted from the Senate "