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LAST EDITION LAST EDITION MONTENEGRINS WIN IMPORTANT BATTLE JAPS AND GERMANS AGREE TO ARMISTICE Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Pcstoffice at $ Chicago, m., Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK ' An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St. 398 TeL Monroe 353. By Mail, Except in Chicago, $3 a Year. VOL. 4, NO. 14 Chicago, Tuesday, Oct 13, 1914 ONE CENT SEARCH REDLIGHT DISTRICT FOR HIRED GUNMAN IN DERTSCHE CASE New Tip Sends Detectives Scurrying Altz Before Crime Commission Eddie Jackson, "Pickpocket King," Now in Pen, May Expose Crime Trust, Attaches of State's Attorney Hoyne are searching the redlight district of Chicago in trace of the mysterious gunman said to have fired the first two shots in the "battle of Randolph st.," when Barney Bertsche, Bill Egan and Skip Monahan were shot. The man is supposed to be well known in the "bad lands" of Chicago. It is believed that a woman of the underworld is now secreting him in her apartments. The prosecutor is also investigat ing a report that gambling is again beginning to flourish in the loop .and that an argument concerning the "split" of the graft was one of the contributing causes of the attempt to. get Bertsche. The gunman is said to -have been a character in the old Twenty-second street district, but moved from there about six months ago and has been living with a "woman" in the Wilson avenue district. It was on the far North Side that Jimmy Ryan, convicted clairvoyant and pal of Barney Bertsche, first "wis ed up to the fact that he and Barney were being trailed. mmtammiGmaUtimmmaimtiim2itatmama&GSaMm