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Jpj LAST EDITION 6 MAYOR THREATENS POLICE HEADS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 6, NO. 62 Chicago, Saturday, December 9, 1916 398 HOW BUSINESS FIRMS MAKE MONEY FROM PROSTITUTION Real Estate Firm of Whiteside 5e Wentworth Attacked at Trial of Capt. O'Brien Dobyns Says Property. Agents Make Big Moneyin Redlight District . , Asks Exoneration of -O'Brien. The big real estate , dealers of Chi cago appear t6 be partners in thi prostitution carried' on in the red light districts of the South Side. Fletcher Dobyns, counsel for Police Capt. Wm. P. O'Brien, today named "Whiteside & Wentworth, one of the higgest real estate firms-hv the city as being one concern, that makes big profits from prostitution. Dobyns' accusation shed great light on why "buffet flats" are open ing "up in the respectable sections of the city. Real estate agents of the Whiteside & Wentworth type show the millionaire property owners whom they represent how much