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LAST EDITION ONE CENT STREET CAR UNION STRIKES BACK AT (SiW SCORES MATERNITY HOMES YOUNG WHITE WOMAN TELLS bF HAREM LATEST WAR NEWS THE DAY BOOK' An Adle&s Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 134 Chicago, Friday, March 5, 1915 398 HOYNE PIANS GRAND JURY PROBE AGAINST MORALS SQUAD Charges of Mrs. Violet Phipps Against "Stool Pigeon?? Steel Taken to Hoyne--Woman Says She Paid Money to Avoid Arrest How the Morals Squad Works ' A woman, who from evidence pre sented by her to the state's attorney's office has apparently been given a "rough deal," may be the nemesis who will finally sound the" doom of the morals squad. It has leaked out that only the Al ness Of Porsecutor Hoyne has held back, a grand jury investigation of the activities of certain members of the vice "squad. Several days ago Mrs. Violet Phipps, 3741 Indiana .avenue, wajked into State's Attorney Hoyne's office with the charge that she had paid money o J, Ik Steel, one of Major fiiflnkhouser's "sleuths," to .preheat the arrest of herself and -two-other women. Her story is one of a long lis )f similar complaints which have pees, made by unfortunate women of the underworld, who say that certain members of the morals squad have "bled" and "bullied" the vice world. Mrs. Phipps said that Steel anq,anj other investigator came to Sy$al Martin's at 225 E. 23d street last October. They represented them selves as "live ones" and proceeded to stow away wine and food inci dentally. Mrs.- Phipps said thevfai) ted to pay for the wine. , Aoout z o 'ctocs m tne jilMlfriri ii mmi - -- --eaaaaagfcj