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AN AD-LESS NEWSPAPER COMPLETE WIRE AND CABLE NEWS REPORT OF UNITED PRESS THE DAY BOOK N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 398 500 South Peoria St. Tel. Monroe 353. VOL.2,NQ.117 Chicago, Friday, Feb. 14, 1913 ONE CENT WOMAN BETRAYS LOVEiR WANTED IN MURDER BY GOSSIP WITH GIRLHOOD FRIEND Unaware That Old Chum Has Married Chicago De tective, She Tells Story of Escape in Night from Police Surrounded Home in Cleveland. "Women," remarked a man, when the heavy hand of a police man from the Desplaines street station fell on his shoulder last night, "women are hell." In a cell in the Desplaines street station today,, a woman paced furiously up and down. An ger and sorrow and sheer rage were in her face. "What a fool I am !" she cried. "What an utter fool ! And now they have arrested him, and he will be found guilty, and per haps" her voice fell and falter ed "perhaps they will hang him." In the captain's office at Des plaines street. Police Captain Thomas Meagher and Captain of Detectives Alfred Walker, of Cleveland, O.. smoked good cigars in placid content. "Yep," said Meagher, "we've got him dead to rights now, and it ought to be easier than eating pie to get him convicted." The man who was arrested is Frank Kinney, master burglar, and, the police say, murderer of Ralph Byrns. The woman who so bitterly ac cused herself in the cell is Nellie Sullivan, Kinney's sweet heart, and the innocent cause of his ar rest. Kinney and The woman will be taken back to Cleveland tonight, the man to stand trial for the murder of Byrns ; the woman per haps to stand trial as his accom plice. On the night of February 2, 1913, Ralph Byrns and his wife came home late from the theater. They found two burglars in the house. Byrns, a retired sea captain, was 64 years old, but a powerful and courageous man. He tackled both the robbers. One of the rob bers broke away and ran, The.