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"JACK THE RIPPER MURDERS WOMAN IN WEST SIDE ALLEY SHORTLY AFTER 1 A. M. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper, N. D. Cochran, 3gggEsv, 500 South Peoria St. Editor and Publisher. fJp 398 Tel. Monroe 353. VOL. 2, NO. 234 Chicago, Wednesday, July 2, 1913 ONE CENT ACTRESS GETS QUARTER OF MILLION SETTLEMENT FROM MARQUIS A Sobby Love Letter or the Family Skeleton of the Noble and Ancient Family of Northampton Is To Blame Society Women Disappointed. Was it a family skeleton of the noble and ancient family of Northampton that Ccost the present young Marquis a-'$250j000 settlement to Daisy Markham, or Viola Moss, the actress? Or was it this letter, produced in court just before the announcement of-the quarter-million settlement was made: "My Dearest Daisy: "I am so wretchedly miserable. I love and respect yqu more than any other -woman in the world. "You are my ideal of perfect wo manhood, but the ways of the world are hard, and I want you to believe that what I am doing is the best for both of us. "You do not know how these so called ladies of society would treat you. , With your sweet, sensitive na ture it would, be tqrture. to. you. "J 35k your forgiven You, al ways will be my beautiful dream. God bless you, darling, and bring you all the pluck you need. "Your broken-hearted, " 'Bim.' " "Bim" is the school . and college nickname of the marquis. London, July 2. Sir Edward Car son, chief counsel for the actress, Daisy Markham, in private life Violet Moss, in her suit against the Mar quis of Northampton for breach of promise, announced today that the Marquis had agreed to settle for $250,000. The settlement of the case was a bitter disappointment to the society women who crowded Justice Buck nill's courtrooom, in expectation of sensations. It was rumored that the family skeletons of the old, and once ex ceedingly powerful family of Nort hampton, were going to be dragged put of their closets by the little act-