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YOU CAN READ THIS NEWSPAPER IN A CAR WITHOUT BOTHERING YOUR NEIGHBORS THE DAY BOOK O 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2,NO,87 Chicago, Friday, Jan. 10, 1913 ONE CENT ASST. SUPERINTENDENT OF MARSHALL FIELD FORCES SICK WOMAN TO DISROBE Ben Hinckley, a Nice Lookng Little Man, But Real Brutal When Leading His Raiders on Women. Ben C. Hinckley, assistant su perintendent of Marshall Field & Co., is a sleek, well-dressed, black mustached little man. Yet Hinckley himself led the raiders who ransacked the rooms of Hazel Krause and Estelle Yae ger", the two girls whom Hinckley has accused of larceny: Those rooms are at 4259 South State street in a flat leased by an aunt of Hazel Krause named Mrs. Mary Gordon. Mrs. Gordon is 51 years old. She was in bed at the flat when Hmckley and his raiders arrived. Just one week before she had released from St. Bernard s hospital, where she had under gone an operation. She was still very weak. Hinckley ordered her to get up out of bed. The sick woman pro tested and told him her condition. Hinckley's only answer was an other order to get up. -, Mrs. Gordon, fearing Hinck ley's display of authority, then did get up. She was wearing a kimona. "Take that kimona off," said Hinckley. The old woman did so. Hinck ley took the kimona and flung it with a pile of other clothing he had gathered in the raid. Mrs. Gordon crawled back to bed. Hinckley then went on with the ransacking of the flat. Be fore he was finished, he had gath ered in almost e very article of clothing in the flat. He took all of it away with him. Marshal Field & Co.'s own esti mate of the value of the goods taken from Mrs. Gordon's flat by Hinckley raiders is $300. Marshall Field & Co.'s estimate is not likely to be excessively high. The store is still keeping this confiscated property. Hinckley's raid was as entirely without warrant of law as a Ku Klux clan one. His only authority to enter the flat of Mrs, Gordon was a "per-