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immmsemmmmmmmimmm NEW POLICE CHIEF SLAMS ON THE SUNDAY LID Safe behind the support of the newspapers, our new police chief, Herman Schuettler, slapped the Sunday closing lid on yesterday as it has never been slapped before. Aided ako by the scare that State's Att'y Hoyne has thrown into saloon grafters, the big boss of the police force went to it with a will, sparing none who disobeyed the law. The police found a lot to do be cause some of our worst bars and cabarets seemed to have acquired the habit of staying open on Sunday during the Healey regime. Misled by the belief that the new chief could not close them up and tricked by a new stunt in police cir cles, 18 saloonkeepers were caught "with the goods on." The bright idea' that put it-over on the bar owners was to send eight lady policemen who have been doing department store flirt duty out with regular detectives as escorts to buy drinks in cheating bars. It worked. When the police were served with the liquor they askfed the owner or manager of the bar was grabbed and hustled to the nearest police station. Liquor served was taken along as evidence. ' ' ' One , silk-stocking place fell into the hands of the police through this scheme. It is the "Palais de Danse club" at the Bismarck Gardens, which has stood pretty well with the authorities in the past The others , were mainly saloons of petty politi cians. 0 o N TELEGRAPH BRIEFS '. Dallas. Seven inches of snow fell in Northern Texas. Deepest known here. New7 York. Al Haynlan, well known , theatrical roan, in seripus condition following stroke of 'pa ralysis. Was formerly partner of Chas Frohman. - Nw York. Theater-to be built near Times Square will seat 38,000. GIRL REVENGES BETRAYAL BY SPREADING SOCIAL SCOURGE Columbus, 0., Jan. 15. An out cast of society, wandering the streets homeless, Mona Simon, 26, once re spected choir girl of Phlllpi, W. Va sought revenge on the class of men she blamed for his disgrace and spread a social scourge. , Then she laughed and sneered at .her victim, taunted him and inquired: "What are you going to do about it?" Her death by murder at the Desh ler hotel last Thursday night was the answer. WeWon H. Wells, 23, of Kansas City, confessed to the murder, -police say, immediately after bqing brought to the city prison last njght from Huntington, Ind, "I noticed that something was the matter with her and she told me she had a social disease," said Wells. "I was crazy, raved and was out of my head for a minute. I was wor ried and scared to death.- I cursed her. "She laughed and sneered and said she came frpm a good family and had been disgraced and that I was one of the kind of men who did it. She asked: 'What are you going to do about it?' "Then 8he mumbled something about having a razor and I felt her shocking. We were standing at the side of the bed. As I stooped over I imagined she had a razor and was about totry to cut roe: I reached in the drawer of the writing desk at the head of the bed' and got the gun and reached out and shot. She stag geredWd fell on the floor. "I stood and trembled and saw the whole horrible thing," continued Wells', "I then went down- the ele vator, walked out of the hotel, went, to the station and took the 10 o'clock train for Indianapolis and Huntington." Temporary insanity probably will be pleaded for Wells, it was said j8Kj-i tEibSt. &