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NOON EDITION ? " f ' NOON EDITION MISSING- TRAINLOAD OF AMERICAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM MEXICO CITY HAS ARRIVED SAFE AT VERA CRUZ Entry as Second-class Matter Applied For. 'I ' THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. ' ' 'Daily Except Sunday. N. D. Cochran, sagggsa TeL Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. , gg Automatic 51-422. 500 South peoria St. 398 By Maiir $5 a Year. VOL-3, NO. 175 Chicago, Thursday, April 23, 1914 ONE CENT PLUCKY WOMAN MAKES A LAUGHING STOCK OF PINKERTON SLEUTHS " 4 Wife of Toiler Who Claims Himself the Victim of an "Ex- .,- plosiv&Plant" Scoffed at DetectivesWho "Shadow- ' ed" Her Finally TRey Got Sick of Their Job. I BY JACK JUNGMEYER.' San Francisco, Cal., April 3-This pretty,, purposeful young- matron Jid herself of the constant espionage of Puikertons'by making a public joke of them. "And a detective," she avers, "would rather be shot' at than laugE edat." t t She is Mrs; Rena Af ooriey, wife of Thos J.'Mooney, a worjang man who declares from behind prison, bars that he lias been, made the VicUm of .an "explosive pla.nt" conspiracy hy sleuths in the employ of the- F.aciflc' Gas Electric Co. to get him ou1 of the way. He had been, active in the stnkeof the electrical workers. To gether with H, G-. Hanlon and Jo Brown, he is awaiting trial for "un lawfifllyjiaving in his possession ful4 minating caps, an- explosive." His ?ife,.mgther, -sisterand brothel were for months subjected to annoy ance by the corporation hirelings. BUI jn "Mrs. .Mooney's cas, wit and af fronted innocence proved too mucl for paid espionage. ,. "I cpuldn't deliver a jaw-Tweaker tc the burly- men. vho followed-me tfaj m m . -v. . .-. - $&$m&&