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YOU CAN READ THIS ON A CAR WITHOUT JABBING YOUR NEIGHBOR IN THE EAR THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2NQ.94 Chicago, Saturday, Jan. 18, 1913 ONE CENT CINCINNATI MILLIONAIRE VALUED THE SOUL OF MADELEINE ALBERS AT $2,500 Jeff Livingston Gave Girl Check After She Signs Away Her Rights of Motherhood The Remarkable Innocence of Wexeler and Mary 0Neil "Jeff Livingston made me sign a paper in which I swore he was not the father of my child; then he gave me $2,500." Made leine Albers in criminal court corridor. "Jeff Livingston is the father of my child the baby that I never" have been allowed to see." Madeleine Albers in courtroom. Jeff Livingston, multi-millionaire of Cincinnati, values a girl's soul a little higher than does Maud Le Page. Miss LePage has offered to -sell her soul for $1,000, so she can get enough money to publish her poems. Jeff Livingston stole the soul of Madeleine Albers when she was an inexperienced girl of seven teen, and later paid her $2,500 for it. And because what was left of Madeleine Albers was annoyance to him, he later paid her $1,200. But that was not an extra pay ment on her soul. That was just a bribe to get her out of his sight. These additional details as to cinnati soul-buying millionaire were disclosed by Miss Albers. yesterday just before she was called as chief witness against Dave Wexeler, former manager of Sim Tuckhorn's notorious cafe at 24 Quincy street, who is charged with pandering. Miss Albers told about the $2,500 soul-purchase for the first time in the corridor of the Crim inal Court building. "It was last summer," she said, wearily. "My child was then about two years old. I never had seen it. "I suppose Jeff foresaw that I, whom he had ruined, was likely to get into trouble and to get my name in the papers. "So he came to me one night the ways and habits of the Ciu-