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'ggVPaiMi of legislature asking that they defeat bill which would permit bakeshops ill cellars. Judge Mahoney refused to fine eight men arrested for riding on rear platform of Oak Park "L" train when they could not get seats inside. Said company was inefficient. Dr. J. A. Meek, 6351 Parnell av., ar rested on charge of performing illegal operation on Mrs. Fredericka Engle hart, 5143 S. Ada st, who died Mon day. Mob tried to attack James Miller, negro teamster, when he beat horse that fell at Erie and N. State sts. Sergeant Mcintosh, Chicago avenue police station, protected Miller and arrested him. Seventy victims have complained to police and management of River view that their pockets -were picked during Socialist picnic Sunday. No arrests. Fred Koepfer, 1615 Orchard st., shot and killed himself at his home. Ill health. John Slayton, 32, got leg cut off by train. Fiftieth st. police raided colored prize fight at 4533 Armour av. Four arrested. Capt. Jos. Smith, Warren av. sta tion, claims two pickpockets tried to bribe him. Policeman Conrad Adamowski at tacked and bitten by dog in front of St John Cantius Church. Judge Fred L. Fake,. Jr., will suc ceed Judge Mahoney at the Des plaines st station beginning next Monday. VAN VLISSENGEN IN CHICAGO ' TO FIGHT DIVORCE SUIT Peter, Van Vlissengen, one time wealthy real estate broker of Chi cago, now serving a term in Joliet prison for forgeries amounting to ap proximately $1,000000, arrived in Chicago today under guard to con test the second attempt of his wife, Jessie R, Bland Van VJissengen, hfs former stenographer, to secure a di vorce. Van Vlissengen, looking years old er than in the days when he was a prominent figure in Chicago club life, was met at "the depot by a number of his old friends and went imme diately to Judge Mangan's court room. In her first attempt at legal sep aration Mrs. Van Vlissengen obtain ed custody of their two children. The higher court set aside this de cree on the broker's plea that he was in prison and was not given a chance to testify. "A divorce would be a greater crime than my $1,000,000 forgeries," said Van Vlissengen, as he entered the courtroom. "I do not believe in divorce. "If I were to allow this suit to go uncontested and make it possible for either my wife or myself to marry again I should consider I had broken God's immutable law, and that it would be the greatest of any crime I could commit. "I have refused a parole because I did not think I had served the time I should for what I had done. I was eligible to parole when I had been, in the penitentiary for 11 months. In December I mean to make an ap plication. Then I will have served five years of my sentence." Van Vlissengen will testify that his wife, while working for him as a stenographer, knew of all the deals, through which he obtained money fraudulently. He claimed that, hav ing guilty knowledge of his acts, she.' had no right to ask for a divorce on. the ground that he was a convicted, felon. j Mrs. Van Vlissengen's attorneys denied she knew of the frauds prac- ticed by her husband. i o o j In giving a lesson on the tenses a school teacher asked, "What is tho difference between 'I will hire a taxi and I have hired a taxi?' " "Ahoutf five dollars!" replied. one of the boys b,,,aii. bSteak 4-ftAt tit-M?-