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ffiiNiOiiwiWW l ir PAPERS CANT AGREE ON NEW CRONES LETTER Chief of Detectives Hunt received the telegraph copy of a letter purport ing to be from Jean Crones, anarch ist, last night The letter was re received by the New York Times. Hunt was at home when the tele gram arrived. He immediately went to the detective bureau to check up on the facts in the letter. Chicago police firmly believe that Crones wrote the letter because he says that the cans of "guncotton" the police found in his room was only as bestos. This was verified, along with other portions which detailed some of his past jobs. The letter which came to the Times office was a grotesque assemblage of misspelled words and bad English. Crones was taking a course in chemistry at the International Cor respondence Schools when he disap peared. His examination papers pass ed with a mark of above 90. The I. C. S. marks include credit for spell ing and English. But reporters and rewrite men have outdone themselves in the reproduc tion of the letter. Not one of the papers agreed in the spelling or the English, although they all carried the text Word after word is twisted a la RusBian anarchist style. Capt Morgan Collins this morning said the misspelled words in the let ter were identical with those mis spelled in other letters the police have written by Crones. The Herald says that Crones burn ed all of his papers and letters. The police refuse to make public those they say they have. Efforts to link the "mysterious" fire in the City Hall laboratories, where an analysis is being made of alleged poisons found in Crones' room, TYith a "nationwide plot" has failed. The fire department blamed the lire to a combustion of chemicals from the first Dr. Robertson, health commission er, insinuated in a statement that the anarchist story is a frame-up. The U. S. secret service department has been busy quizzing known anar chists and have been unable to find any traces of a "terrible plot," a "na tional holocaust" as discovered by the newspapermen. In one place in Crones' letter he says he has changed the color of his hair from black to white and later he says it is now red. From Boston comes the "news" that Cromes was seen in a station there last night by a former friend, a waiter. His hair was not bleached then. Chicago detec tives have been sent to New York to assist the 10,000 policemen there to capture the anarchist The. . International. . Propaganda Group has adopted resolutions declar ing that the "nationwide plot" story is being spread to distract attention from the original report of a health official that conditions in the Uni versity Club kitchen were bad. No member of the Vhicago group, they say, knew anything about a poison plot, and in justification joint to the fact that the police have made no ar rests of members of the society. A hot shot is also fired at the po lice department, comment beingmade on the number of policemen recently convicted by State's Attorney Hoyne. o o VICE COMMISSION REPORT TO BE SHOWN ON MOVIE SCREEN The report of the Barrett O'Hara vice commission is being filmed. At a cost of $100,000 the scenes in cab arets, the redlight district and vice holes which are told of in O'Hara's re port are visualized for the movies. The film will be in eight reels and will be entitled "Vice." It will short ly make its appearance on the screen in Chicago. o o King George was so bumped in his fall from his horse months ago that he can't open parliament Pshaw, George ! You can do It standing un,. , ' i4MVii J" -&& -A