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FULL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE NEWS SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS THE DAY B OOK m 500 SO. EEORIA ST, 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VoL' 1, No. 196 Chicago, Monday, May 13, '1912 t One, Cent SLAIN CHICAGO GIRLIS IDENTITY A MYSTERY. Is Claimed as Daughter by One . and Sister by Another. ' Police of both Chicago nd Los Angeles, enmeshed in a tangled mass o f circumstances identify ing 'the supposed Chicago girl slain in' a" bungalow in the Cali- fornfa city as several different people,, are still in the dark as to the correct name of" the dead wpman. Of one thing only are they rea sonably sure. She was ffom Chi cago. Beyond that is mystery. Mrs;." L. ,A. Keller, an. aged woman of Los Angeles, viewed j-the body and said she believed it vas4hat of her daughter, who formerly lived in Chicago. This would Account for the label of a Chicago. department store found in herclothes. Mrs. Keller said her daughter's married life was unhappy. Detectives in Chicago working PH -the,. case uncovered 'clews which they helieve identify the girl as Elizabeth Burns,' former inember of Holy Name church. Mrs. Micheal Healy, agister of Miss Burns, and Hazel Boughan arc positive she is Miss Burns; HOW I FLEW' OVER THE ENGLISH? CHANNEL." Daring American Girl's Story of Peat-That Startled Europe. iwKiiWW' Harriet Quimby. Editor's Note: Miss; Harriet; Quimby, an American gjrl recent-r Jy startled Europe byt$yjng- alone and unaided across, the English channel. Miss Quimby Is a.Cai fornian by birth, , and a 'New Yorker by adoption. She is 24 years old. f , By Harriet Quimby. Directly I took my seat Jn thea Bleriot I knew I would be alD right she' was" a beauty! X felq