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NOON EDITION ONE CENT m LAST OF MARY PICKFORD'S LIFE SERIES IN TODAY SAYS TEACHERS WHIPPED SMALL BOY HOYNE FIGHTS CHAS. B, MUNDAY PLEA THE DAY BOOK An Adles Newspaper Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 164 Chicago, Friday, April 9, 1915 393 HOYNE COMPLETES POLICE GRAFT CASES-'WACO KID" IS CAUGHT? Rumor Says-Ex-Con ManVill Go Before Grand Jury and Reveal Dealings With Police Former Clair- ' voyant's Story Leads to New Indictments T The arrest of another member, of the band of con men connected with Imperial building outfit Is b'elieyed to have been affected by State's Attor ney Hoyne's office. This was report ed after the prosecutor turned up with another valuable witness in the police graft cases in the person of Ed. McCabe, "formerly one of the Michi gan av. clairvoyant gang. On good authority the man. report ed under arrest is said to be te "Wacjp Kid." lloyne Is an interview once said that the arrest and confes sion of the "Kid" would be the last link in the chain of evidence against indicted members of the police de partment "Waco Kid" was, a, pal of Clarence Gfciss and Ed Bice, who made 4their-MoqtiTcittKflrWnIirfiftAitati already confessed! but the "Kid" is needed-o substantiate the charges made against the police, by Rice, McCabe said thai he and a fellow clairvoyant, Jake Strauss, gave $500 to two policemen that came to arrest them and that on account of paying the money they were, allowed to ojh erate. McCabe said he was a drug, clerk in the New Southern hotel until Frank Ryan, alias "Prof. Milton," induced him to get his hand in on the,clair! voyant game. McCabe also said that'after pay ing the first $50.0 he was constantly bled by the police. On the strength of McCabe's story new indictments were returned, against ''Big- Bill" Egan and "Walter S-1 3bi .ii k-i y . .'---riiSiTff?JiMtlSTSf,tMM1