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AN INCIDENT THAT SHOWS UP CERTAIN METHODS The methods of the big depart ment stores and the detectives thereof never were better illus trated than by an incident that occurred during the case of Mar a shall Field & Co. against Hazel Krause and Estelle Yaeger. Immediately after their arrest the girls acquired Walter A. Lantz as their attorney and charged that "Detective" Ed. McGuire of the McGuire & White agency and Ben Hinckley, of Marshall Field & Co. had per sonally searched them and taken $315 from their stockings. Soon after, Lantz, for some mysterious and wholly unexplain ed reason, dropped their case, and refused all information about it to enquirers. The girls then retained An thony J. Moran as their attorney, and it was in connection with Moran that the incident in ques tion occurred. Just after Moran took the ca.se, Ed McGuire called on him, and asketl to be shown into Moran's private office. This is the con versation that followed: McGuire: "You're the new attorney for Hazel Krause and Estelle Yaeger, aren't you?" fe Moran: "I am." McGuire: "Well, look here, you're going a bit too strong on this Marshall Field stuff. The girls are guilty, but they're mak ing a lot of trouble for us. If you can get them to plead guilty, I'll see that they get off with a light sentence." Moran : "I am not in the habit of betraying my clients." McGuire: "Say, your brother-in-law works for the McGuire & White agency, you know." Moran: "What of it?" McGuire: "Well, don't you think that you'd better ease up on that case a little don't you think you'd better get these girls to plead guilty?" Moran : "Just what do you mean by that?" McGuire: "You know what I mean. I mean your brother-in-law is liable to lose his job if you don't." Moran: "Wait a minute, will you?" Moran takes telephone. Calls McGuire and White agency, and asks to speak to his brother-in-law, Emmett McGrath. Gets Mc Grath on the phone. Moran: "Say, Emmett, I wish you would come down to my of fice for a few minutes." McGrath: "I'll be right there." Moran (to McGuire): "I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to wait a little longer." McGuire: "Oh, I'll wait." . Moran begins looking through some legal papers. McGuire fid gets in his chair. McGrath comes in. McGuire: "Hello, Emmett!" McGrath: "Hello!" Moran : "Emmett, you know this fellow, don't you? He's the brother of your boss, isn't he?" McGrath: "Yes." Moran: "Well, he has just told me that unless I betrav two