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ONE CENT-iomOHE CENT ALL TODAY'S NEWS IN A NUTSHELL Vthe day book An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL.5, NO. 205 Chicago, Friday, May 26, 1916 398 c FAKERS IN ORPET CASE JOLTEDBY JUDGE Loop Papers Are Aimed At Jby Threat of Judge Some Live Correspondents May Be Thrown Into Jail Fakes Must Be Replaced by Straight News. Judge Chas. H. Donnelly of Wau kegan, who is presiding at the trial of Will Orpet on a charge of haying murdered Marion Lamhert, has) thrown a scare into the editors of Chicago newspapers who have been trying to outfake each other in their stories on the boy's trial. Donnelly has announced that in the future he would make an inves tigation of all fakes and throw the responsible ones into jail for con tempt of court The Hearst, papers and the Trib une, who have got about everybody on the payroll from copy boys to ed itors and high-priced ink-slingers writing sob stories on the case, are said to have chiefly incurred the wrath of the judge. The first big fake pulled since the start of the trial was the Trib's fa mous story of the "midnight visit of Celeste Youker to the cell of Will Orpet" The Trib, however, seems to have been punished sufficiently for that fake in the kidding they have received since it was published. Since that time the Trib and the Hearst sheets have been running a great race. Hearst has placed a larger army of sob writers in the field than the Trib in an effort to corner the fake market, but the Trib has not given up hope as yet The judge's anger finally burst forth with the publication of a story in the Trib purporting to have come from Coroner Taylor of Lake coun ty about the poison crystals on the