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LAST EDITION BODY OF MAN IN ST. JOE BOAT MYSTERY IS RECOVERED LAST EDITION SUFFRAGETS SLIP A GOOD ONE OVER ON COP NEAR SCANDAL j Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postoffice at Chicago, 111., Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, sgggjgg Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. Tpp3 By Exc8pt in .500 South Peoria St. 398 . Chicago, $3 a Year. VOL. 3, NO. 246 Chicago, Friday, July 17, 1914 ONE CENT REDLIGHT KILLING MAY LEAD TO BREAKING UP OF MORALS SQUAD City Officials Frown at Shooting Affair Morals Squa Member Cries "I Didn't Know They Were Officers" Gleason In Protest. ' Feeling ran high in the police de partment today over the killing of Detective Sergeant Stanley Bims, who was shot down in the old red light district last night after a re volver battle with members of the morals squad. There is an insistent rumor that Mayor IJarrison and the civil service commission will take action in cfean ing up the squad. Several surprising changes are intimated. Last night's tragedy was due to the fear that gripped the hearts of the members of the morals squad when they imagined Officers Birns and John Sloop were attacking them. When the smoke from the re volvers cleared' away the following results were checked up: The Dead. Stanley J. Birns, 1848 North West ern avenue, detective sergeant of de tective bureau; a wife and three chil dren survive him. Wounded. John Sloop, detective sergeant, Birns' working partner, wounded in thigh; removed to hospital. II LSJfe :,fe smmmmm