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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, August 27, 1913, Image 28

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ANOTHER FACTORY VICTIM
Katherine Wehner, an 18-year-old
girl employed by the Chicago Special
ty Company at New Chicago, had her
hair caught-in the belting, was lifted
to the ceiling, literally scalped and
dropped to the floor unconscious and
bleeding, while almost a hundred
girls and men looked on without
sufficient presence of mind to stop
the machinery.
"It was a terrible sight," John Wil
liams, one of the workmen, exclaim
ed. "The girl had beautiful hair and
was passing one of the machines
when a coil of it was slipped around
a belt running to a pulley on the line
shaft at the ceiling. Before anyone
could interfere she was carried up
ward. If some one had run the belt
off both the machine and the loose
pulley the girl might have been saved,
but it all happened so quickly, and no
one thought."
The girl's body was wedged be
tween the line shaft and the ceiling
and the belt that clutched her hair
tore it out by the roots dragging her
scalp with it. Then she fell to the
floor.
She is in a very serious condition
and is not expected to live.
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JOSEPHINE SELWOOD FULLY
EXONERATES MORDAUNT
Josephine Selwood, the 17-year-old
girl, whose serious charges caused
the arrest of Frederick S. Mordaunt,
the wealthy publisher, yesterday
broke down and admtited to Chas.
F. DeWoody, Department of Justice,
that her accusation was false.
Mordaunt was discharged in the
municipal court shortly after his ar
rest, but certain talk made by the
Selwood girl caused DeWoody, scent
ing a violation of the Mann white
slave act, to further investigate.
Last night the girl, who seems
nothin gmore than a victim of con
ditions prevalent among a certain
class of poorly paid department store
girls, tearfully admitted she had in
vented the yarn to justify herself
when she was discharged from Roth
child's as a result of idle scandal.
Mordaunt blames a reporter for
the Tribune for dragging him into
the case. He announced he would
drop the $50,000 damage suit he
brought againstt he girl's parents.
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THE MAYOR COMES TO TOWN
WITH BLOOD IN HIS EYE
Mayor Harrison unexpectedly
swooped down upon Chicago today
following a call for help let out by
the Corporation Counsel's office.
The help was needed in connection
with the garbage plant contract.
According to Acting Corporation
Counsel Leon Hornstein, the Chicago
Reduction Co., whose plant the coun
cil has -authorized the city to buy,- is
trying to put something over. '
The reduction company has all of
a sudden demanded that the" value
of contracts wit hits customers and
other items, "representing the de
velopment of the plant since it was
constructed," should be included in
the price to be fixed by the board of
appraisers.
Harrison, with blood in his eye,
sent out a hurry call for members
of the fianance committee. He inti
mated that if the company didn't quit
playing horse with the city it might
lose the contract.
BOYS LOSTIN LAKE
Two boys, who went out in a
canoe, are believed to have been
drowned in Lake Michigan today.
The canoe was washed ashore at
the foot of Oak. street. Miss Bertha
Carlson, a domestic employed by G.
C. Hixon, 999 Lake Shore drive, told
the police that shortly before she had
seen two boys, about 15 years old,
about a quarter of a mile out in the
lake in a canoe.
Fire caused by soot and grease in
the kitchen, came out through chim
ney of building occupied by Edelweiss
Restaurant, 63 W. Madison st. Small
damage.

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