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Once home she told her sister of
the affair and thanked her stars that
she. had escaped as luckily as she
did.
But a week later, -when the fellow
who figured in the Room 600 inci
dent called on her and again offered
her the' swell job on the road; Mar
ian, anxious to get work, forgot her
caution. Once more he led her to
the room in the hotel
This time when her "friend," his
name was Harry Thompson, he told
her, got her in the room it was all
off. Ten minutes after !she ventured
into the trap Marian found herself,
half-unconscious 'and bleeding, in
the bathroom. She had been at
tacked by Harry Thompson and she
was being held captive by several
men.
She was dragged from the bath
room a few moments later and told
to get her sister on the wire and
have her come to the room. She did
and a half hour afterward in tripped
Charlotte, wide-eyed and curious,
into the' den.
Thompson grabbed her and tried
to do the same with her as he did
with Marian, but Charlotte screamed
'so loudly that guests were aroused
and Thompson had to stop his at
tempts. So Charlotte escaped. But this
was the beginning of the end, for
' Marian, despoiled, fell into the ways
. planned for her by the creatures who
used room 600 for their purposes.
Other men visited the room, many of
them well-known, with reputations
for virtue and honesty, and the po
lice have been told that the girls
wsere pulled down by the men to their
own leveL
That was substantially the . story
told by the girls to Ass't State's Att'y
Rob't Hogan Wednesday and three
men were promptly arrested. They
were Jack Price, cigar clerk at Madi
son' and Dearborn sts., who lives In
the Saratoga;. Michael Todorovich,.
president ,of the National . Labor
Agency, 112. S. Canal st, and Thos.
Garry, a pugilist, who also li?es at
the Saratoga.
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BIG DOINGS AT SPRINGFIELD
TUESDAY ON SCHOOL LAWS
Next Tuesday is set' for the big
main hearing- at Springfield on pub
lic school laws- for Chicago. A, R.
Shannon,, attorney for the school
board, and John LTLovett, secretary
of the Chicago Public School league
(EL Manfrs.-ass'n"), were In Spring
field yesterday and today. So were
Ida L. Fursman and Nano T. Hickey
of the Teachers' Federation execu
tive board.
Ralph C. Otis and Max Loeb, school
trustees, have been over the. ground
lately and will be at the hearing
Tuesday.
The two biggest things that will be
put in or left out of the Otis-Mueller
bill are a tenure clause for teachers
and authorization of school land
sales by the school board alone with
out check by the city council.
Rev. Rufus A. White of Chicago is
one of the active lobbyists "on the. re
ligious issue. He Is said to. have de
clared that the Otis-Mueller bill "is a
good anti-Roman Catholic bill."
Mrs. Ida L. Bursman, president
of Teachers' Federation, personally
a Christian Scientist, whose1 father
was a Methodist clergyman, insists
that the religious issue is unfairly in
jected into the legislative situation.
"Teachers, parents and children
will all get more benefit from any
-legislation enacted If it approached
without prejudice," is her statement
"The right of a teacher to atrial and
a public hearing before dismissal is
a right that, ought to be protected
by our state laws. The civil service
system should concern itself only
with efficiency and honesty of publip
servants. Whether a woman Is Cath
olic, Methodist or Baptist should not
be made an issue."
Wm. Nagel, 45, 3441 N. Hoyne,
killedby Northwestern train at Koat
ner; ay, jwrossing.
