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LAST EDITION LAST EDITION CLAIM ANTWERP WOULD BE EMPTY VICTORY RUSSIAN ARMY MOVES ON BERLIN Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postoffice at Chicago, HI., Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, sflpezg Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. ctgggagu By ..Mail, Except in 500 South Peoria St. 398 Chicago, $3 a Year. VOL. 4, NO. 11 Chicago, Friday, Oct. 9, 1914 ONE CENT AFEBLOWERS AND DIPS CALLED BY HOYNE IN THE CRIME PROBE Prosecutor Probes Relation Between Police and Crooks .-Hunt Mysterious Gunman Who Fired First Two Shots? Police Blamed by Attorney. Several safeblowers and pickpock ets will be questioned by State's At torney Hoyne in an effort to find out if any protection money was paid a ring of politicians and police offi cials. That is the first real outgrowth of the revolver battle staged by Barney Bertsche and Bill Egan and Skip Monahan. Last night investigators from Hoyne's office swept through all parts of the city in search of "pete" men, gunmen and "dips" who have police records. It is rumored that there has been considerable "fixing" going on for some time. This report will be in vestigated to the limit. Barney Bertsche has not yet said definitely whether he will open up on the police department or not. Efforts to get him to talk from the bedside at St Luke's Hospital have failed. The state's attorney's office under stands the game is worked in the fol lowing, manner: A safe is blown. The "pete" men make a clean getaway. The police spread out a dragnet for all known crooks: They land a sua- mmmmmmmmmmm