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THREE CHICAGOANS DIED WA MURDER ROUTE LAST NIGHT Chicago got three laps ahead in the annual murder record race-by three separate and distinct killings that oc curred last night two on the North Side and one on the West Side. The queerest was the murder of Daniel Donahue, a janitor, who was found beaten to death. 'About 11 o'cloqk Undertaker H. J. Thonnan, 3136 Ogden av., received a telephone call. "I want you fo come over to the flat building at 1365 California ave nue and prepare for burial a man who has just been murdered," said the voice at the other end of the wire. "Yes, sir," replied Thorman, "who is this talking?" "I'm the man that killed him," was the answer. The poli.ce were notified and hur ried over. They found James Mcln erney, very drunk, emerging from the building. They stopped him. "Are you police officers " he asked. Being assured they were, he 'said: "I want to show you something that may interest you." And he led them up to the room in which lay the body of Donahue. "He took my job and I killed him," was Mclneraeys only statement. Bloody "Death Corner," around Milton avenue and Hobbie street, no torious as the scene of nearly a score of murders, bomb outrages and Black Hand crimes in the Italian quarter, claimed two more victims early today. Two Sicilians, pointed to as leaders of the Mafia, were shot to death mysteriously while detec tives filled the district They are be lieved to have paid the penalty of "squealing." Antony Puccio, owner of several saloons and former banker, was standing on a corner talking to a tall Italian when three shots rang out and Puccio. fell dead. His com panion, wounded in the arm, fled. Two pohcsineu started, for the corner. Midway in the block they heard two more shots and Rosana . Despensa, wealthy Italian banker and former partner of Puccio, reeled un der an arc light and fell over dead. Twenty-five Italians were rounded up within a few minutes. AH swore they had seen no one running fire any shots or run fro mthe scene of the killings. MOVIES BREAK" SAD NEWS TO THE .ELDER MADERO New York, Jan. 23. After mem bers of his family here had endeavor ed for months to prevent him from learning that his son, Raoul, was fighting with the Mexican rebel army under General Villa, Francisco Ma-a dero, father of the .murdered presi dent of the southern republic, actual ly saw his boy in action, reached his arms out .to him as he dashed up on a spirited horse and then fell back in his chair, overcome with emotion. The elder Madero attended a pri vate exhibition here of moving pic tures of the fighting about Ojinaga with the widow of the formeT presi dent and two of his sons. General Villa was shown prominently on the film. Then an aide rode up. "Raoul, Raoul, I did not know you were fighting," the aged Mexican ex claimed. The aide was his son. Alphonso, another son, put his arm about his father. "We knew," he said. "But it was one of the worries we tried to spare you." oo- MRS. FOSTER REFUSES TO TALK Scranton, Pa., Jan. 23. Mrs. Joel M. Foster, wife of the wealthy poul try farmer of Pemberton, N. J., who eloped with Delilah Bradley, the 16-year-old stenographer, ref used today to break the silence she has main tained sin.ce her husband's escapade. With her 15-year-old daughter, she has been, staying at tho home of her father-in-lw', T. J. Foster, million aire president of the International Correspondence Schools,