The day book. [volume], March 23, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 3

About The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917

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So they - took the owner of the
nouse, a mrs. swoss, 10 me morgue
where the tiny body lay. She iden
tified it as the child of the Van Zet
tern girl.
The midwife was-- arrested and
booked on two charges of violations
S)i the health ordinances. Detective-
Sergeant bowler, believes it possible
to prefer state charges against her.
The story of the girl is an old one
the story of a girl who gave up
everything for a man, only to be left
when the danger came.
Emma Van Zettern was a good girl
when she lived at home. But several
- months ago the man came into her
life. She loved him, loved him so
fervently that when it came a ques
tion of him or her parents she took
him. She left home.
In all that time the Van Zetterns
have seen little of their daughter.
When the trouble came and she
realized she was to become a mother
she faced it bravely. She determined
th&t her child would be born.
'But in the two months preceding
the birth of the child there was no
one to take care of the child. She
couldn't go home. She didn't want
her parents to know. She didn't
know what they would do.
Then from another girl she learn
ed of the mysterious midwives who
abound in Chicago. To the friendless
girl a midwife was the only one left.
She went to the Hapner home. The
baby came. It was born dead, they
say. '
The girl became seriously ill after
the birth of her baby. She was taken
to the County Hospital, where the
physicians shake their heads doubt
fully when the possibility of jier
future health is mentioned.
The police officers are now work
ing on a clue that an organized band
of midwives and quack doctors ex
ists on the West and Northwest Sides'!
of Chicago.
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Eighth juror accepted in Koetters
trial.
MEET, IN ATTEMPT TO SETTLE
OHIO MINE DISPUTE
Two sub-committees of the joint
conference of mine operators and
bituminous coal miners' representa
tives of four states met at the Great
Northern Hotel today in an effort to
settle the dispute over the situation
in Ohio, the most serious obstacle
now preventing renewal of old con
tracts. Several Ohio operators met with
Ohio miners' deelgates at the same
time in an effort to reach an agree
ment on the price to be paid under
the run of mine system. If an agree
ment is reached today, the joint con
ference will reassemble tomorrow'
and negotiations may be successfully
ended. Withdrawal by the miners of .
their demand for a wage increase
made both sides more optimistic to
day. BITSOFNEWS
Miss Willabelle Olsen, 3331 W. 62d
St., eloped with Harry Dutton, 3236
60th pi. Changed mind. Barricaded
at home. Dutton wants police to
help get bride.
Edward N. Breitung disappeared to
escape answering inquiries regarding
mysterious marriage of daughter.
Virginia Ford, million dollar baby,
reached Pacific coast. Escaped with
grandmother down fire escape at
Hotel Sherman.
Christ Berg and Frank Bergeen
severely injured. Scaffold slipped at
theater at North and Crawford av.
Men fell 35 feet.
Louis Cross, 10, arrested for bur
glary. Captured in . home of Mrs.
Charles Giesenhainer.
Vera Lyons, found dying in Grand
Pacific Hotel, is belieaed to be Vivian
Lyons, the actress, who shot and .
wounded Robert J. Widney, Los An
geles, a year ago.
Miss Libbie Price, woman who be
trayed "Handsome Jack" Koetters to
police, refuses to come and testify
against him. - -