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prisoner. In each case the mission was j m successful. I riLieutenant Grady's find is William l’e- *\ terson, a cliauffeau, living at Cottage ' gj Grove avenue. jPeterson looked at the silent face of Vanille and said:“It looks awfully Uke the man I saw in frout of the crowd with an automatic revolver in his band, just before the first shots were fired. 1 want to see him with his clothes on before I can be preparedto say positively that it is the man, butI am already quite certain.”Peterson wus then snown the clothes worn by Vanille and by the policemen who participated in the revolver fight.He picked those of Vanille as beiiug “most like” those of the man he saw with the revolver.Peterson looked at James J. Carroll, the spectator who was shot by a stray bullet, and at Detective Sergeant Sloop, Birns’ partner, aud at Detective Merrell, partner of Detective Amort of the morals squad.After he had seen all of them he said:“I am more couviuced than ever that the first man (Vanille) is the one I saw with the revolver, the ‘man in gray,’ but I want to see him with his clothes on before I would be willing to swear to it.”Women Identify Him.One of the women unearthed by Mr. Hoyne's detectives is Mrs. Tiilie Sykes, owner of the restaurant on the corner, at Twenty-second street and Michigan avenue. whfere the shooting occurred. The other woman, whose name the Hoyne men refused to give out, is the woman who is said to have bumped into Vanille in her frightened efforts to get out of range, causing him to shoot himself in the foot.Mrs. Sykes is said to have identified Vanille as the “man in gray” by bis clothes alone, but the second woman witness is said to have made her identification positive and final. Her identification is regarded as the best of the three, because she saw Vanille, or whoever it was who had the revolver, face to face, at an interval of not more than a few iuches.The identification of Vanille came as the climax to a long day of sensational events.Mr. Iloyne obtained information yesterday that the magazine pistol with which Vanille is alleged to have tired the first shot was given to him in Colosimo’s place of business by Turio, or on the street a few minutes before the shooting took place.Amort and Dannenberg Testify.State's Attorney Hoyne first called before the grand jurors Morals Inspector Dannenberg. His testimony, it is said, related to the present vice conditions in the district aud he is also reported to have told of the shooting Thursday night between two sets of policemen and a gnng of gunmen which ended in the death of Birns.Policeman Fred Amort, one of Second Deputy Funkhouser’s men who took part in the shooting, was next called before the grand jury and he was followed by Olaf Seiverson, an investigator.The State's Attorney’^ detectives centered their activities on an attempt establish whether the Texan who witnessed the shooting and W. E. Frazier, alias Fitzpatrick, are not one and the same. Fitzpatrick, as he is generally known, was a guest at the Netherland Hotel, and this was the address given by the Texan. Tbelr descriptions tally.Fitzpatrick was questioned by Lieutenant Grady of the Cottage Grove avenue station Saturday night and later released. Detectives from that station, the State’s Attorney's office and the Twenty-second street station are now searching for him.Turio Seeking Deal With Hoyne.State’s Attorney Hoyne refused to lis-teu to the proposition of Attorney Robert Cantwell, representing John Turio. COloaimo’a fugitive brother-in-law and
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 23, 1914
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