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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, December 21, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 1

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LAST EDITION " LAST EDITION
HARRY THAW ORDERED BAC TO NEW YORK
TOM WEBB MESS SHOCKS BIG BUSINESS
THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newtpaper, Daily Except Sunday
' M. D. Cochran, i j&PSfc- -Telephones:
EAter and Publisher lllgP Editorial Monroe 353.
500 South Peoria St. 39g jCircubttfan Monroe 3626,
VOL 4, NO. 72
Chicago, Monday Dec 21, 1914 ONE CENT
NORTH AND SOUTH SIDES OF CITY TO
BE SWEPT BY HOYNE'S SQUAD
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Call Flats and Gambling Joints in Fashionable Districts
.Under Hoyne's Fire Funkhouser-Dannenber
Feud Seen as Basis of New Probe Many
Witnesses To Be Called .
State's Attorney. Hbyneis going
after gambling joints ,and call flats
that flourish In so-called respectable
neighborhoods such as the Wilson
avenue district and the far south, sidq.
Revelations that reached the pros
ecutor's office from the mess caused
by the Funkhouser-Dannenberg feud
are said to have prompted the new
inquiry, even though the Dannenbefg
affair was hushed up and Dannenberg
whitewashed after it became certain
that he" would Immediately resign. "
The .Dannenberg: scandal and. the
, Subsequent abrupt end of 'all the
nasty insinuations that followed it
left a mystery that it is believed will
soon come out despite the efforts of
certain politicians to have the mess
treated as a closed book,
Today JBoyne iartlally admitted
that he 'was going after gambling on
the north side. Ancf everything
poinfe to the "Wilson avenue district
as the field of his operations.
Detective Sergeant Steve Barry
did some work in that district up un
til adew weefts ago and managed to
annpjrlBeveral "polite gambling joints
frequented ' by silk stockings, alt

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