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WPWr" THERE'S A GOOD LOVE STORY AND SOME DOPE ABOUT THE WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE IN THIS ISSUE THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 352 VOL.2,NO,44 - Chicago, Monday, Nov. 18, 1912 ONE CENT Jl RICH REGENERATE WHO MURDERED JOSEPH JOSEPHS KNOWN TO POLICE .Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 18. It is believed the police of this city, Lackawanna and Boston know who 'murdered seven-year-old Joseph Josephs. The identification is said to, be absolute. The police know - the man's name, address, business ahd sociai standing everything but TiTst present whereabouts. . It-is quite probable that an ar rest ? ill be, made beforepnight. i The man was employed up to a year' ago" by the Lacikawanna Steel Co. He is well connected socially. In his rightmind he is a valuable employe. Attitties he exhibited the characteristics of a pervert. He frequently was ab sent from LarckawaUna for weeks at a time. When he was. driven out of the La"ckawanna Co. he went to Boston. Up to Sunday a week "ago, this man was in Boston. He left that city at the Ifitst hint of a discov ery of the.murdered'boy's body, Lackawanna, K. Y.,"Nov. 18. Police and federal authorities have sworn to run dowmthe de generate maniac who murdered seven-year-old Joseph Josephs of this town. The boy's funeral was held to-j day. Schools, business houses (and public buildings were closed during the funeral. St. Charles' church was not big enough to hold all who wanted to -attend. The boys' mother did not at- tend the funeral. She is" .in a state of utter collapse. The s.udden news of the murder of her son, 'with all its revolting detailswas" too much for her. Joseph Josephs disappeared Qc-' tober 12. His father, thinking him kidnaped, offered a reward of $i,CKXMor his return. Friday the father received a postal rard from Chicago telling Jiim his son had been murdered by the writer, and that the body was hidden in a cesspool back of a Lackawanna saloon. The mtftilated body was found 'in the cesspool." Sunday, the father received, two other postal cards, and a let ter. One of the cards w3s -from New York, the other and the let ter from Boston. The New York postal told of the remorse of the murderer, and; iukiL.SL ..JuM