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hangover celebrant of the Fourth of July.He denied to Mr. Hoyne that be knew anything at all of any plot to kill or maim Morals Inspector W. C. Dannen-berg.After Colosimo had concluded, Mr. Hoy tie said:“I will give you until to-morrow, Colosimo, to think this over and decide to tell me the real truth. I shall expect nothing less/’Five Denizens Subpoenaed.As though dazed, the big vice baron stumbled from the ante room and made his way again to the levee. Before he even arrived there five more subpoenas had been issued to bring in other denizens of the half world who are believed to know something of the plot. They were:*“Speedy Julius” Cohen, bartender In the Turf Cafe, at 28 West Twenty-second street.“Joe” Daley, bartender in the Siler Dollar Cafe Saloon, originally th owned and operated by “Jakie” JAdler. bc“Yellow Morrie” Graham, a bar-|\j( tender at the saloon of William leathers, 20 East Twentieth street.Jose Morresco, Colosimo's brother-law.rank Bruna, a tailor in the red-i? district.[on as if was known that these been called upon to testify was a rush to conferences in 'osimo’s office. All five of the men .11 appear this morning to give their testimony.Believed Factional Fight.It is now stated that the shooting of Detective BIrns was the outburst of a bitter feeling between Colosimo, Johnny Turio, Jke Bloom and other members of the “immunity ring” and the proprietors of the different resorts who had been closed by the police and Funkhouser’s men and not allowed to reopen.Chiefly opposed to the “immunity ring” was “Pollock lien” Zellen. owner of theVestibule cafe at Twenty-second andState streets. Members of the ring antagonistic to the Freiberg faction were envious of the protection denied to them. They were declared to have asserted that if the entire district would not he permitted to run openly it would not be permitted to run at all.Their way of bringing this about was to mob Fnnkhouser’s men and bring about a collision between them and the regular police under cover of which a bullet was to square tlie levee's account against the men who were closing it up.Three Identify Vanille.State's Attorney Hoyne’s contention :hat “Roxy” Vanille is “the man in gray” ho fired the first shot of the fusillade in he levee which ended only when Detective Sergeant Stanley Birns was killed and bree other policemen were wounded, was itrengthened yesterday when three peo-iple Identified him.A man and two women looked at the wounded prisoner on his cot in the Wesley Hospital and expressed a belief that he was the same man who led the attack upon the morals squad detectives and who drew his pistol and shot with the snarlingvindictive sentence:“I’ll drop you, you stoolpigeon -Lieutenant Edward J. Grady of the Cot-:e Grove Avenue Statiou found the man o made the identification. Detectives the offices of kState’e Attorney took the two Momen to^see the
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 23, 1914
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