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FULL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE NEWS SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS THE DAY BOOK TEL. MONROE 353 500 S. PEORIA ST.- 398 Vol. 1, No. 217 Chicago, Thursday, June 6, 1912 One Cent SAYS NEWSBOYS HAVE RIGHT, TO CRY WARES Judge Thomas Scully, in the Thirty-five street Municipal Court, ruled that newsboys have a right to cry their wares on the street. There are thirty-four cases ' against newsboys arrested under the recent order of the Andy Lawrence - dominated police, which are quashed by this de cision. , Judge Scully was a member of the city council at the time that body passed the ordinance under . which Harrison tried to stop the newsboys crying their wares. In ruling that that ordinance did not affect the newsboys and dismissing the cases against them, Scully said : "Before the ordinance was al lowed to go on the statute books, the council committee heard long arguments from the attorneys of the newspapers against the ordi nance being allowed to apply against newsboys. "The council committee, and later the council, passed the ordi nance with the distinct under standing that it should not be al lowed so to .apply. "It was the newspapers them- seks which secured the under standing. I hae never heard of an arrest of a newsboy for crying" his wares from the time o the passage of the ordinance until' these cases came up "The cases are dismissed." LEAPS THROUGH WINDOW AFTER BEING SHOT Mrs. Edith McLean. 24 years old, of 2728 Sheffield avenue, lies at the German-American hospi tal, suffering from1: A fractured skulfc- a fractured spine, a fracturecL ankle,' oie bul let in her head. " And she may live. Mrs. McLean's injuries are the result of a quarrel with her hus band, A. A. McLean, a former clerk in the Boston store. Mc Lean is dead. He blew 'out his brains after shooting his wife. When McLean came home from work last nighi, he accused his wife of unfaithfulness. She denied his charge, and McLean seemed satisfied. This morning he left for work as usual. But he did not go to work. He bought a revolver in stead, and returned home. "I don't care if you deny going out with other men," he said to