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their earnings.Vanille Held as Slayer.Meantime every preparation is being made to bring to a speedy trial “Roxy” Vanille, wounded in the levee riot and accused of firing the shot that killed Detective Birns. Lieutenant Grady yesterday served on Vanille at the Wesley Hospital a warrant charging him formally with murder, and he was taken to the bridewell hospital, heavily guarded.Another witness in the case was arrested yesterday by State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne’s detectives. She is Lizzie Bergman, formerly an inmate of a house at 2119 Federal street. She denied that she could tell anything about the crime.“I didn’t know about the shooting of Birns,' declared Lizzie Bergman when questioned by the State’s Attorney’s men. “Yes, I know Vanille, the follow they say shot him, but I was in the house when the killing came off and knew nothing about it.“Who owns the house where I work? 1 don’t know—it don’t pay to know too much. I Just worked there, and that’s enough for me to know.”“Sure, we’ll clean them out,” said Captain Nootbaar, who succeeded Captaiu Ryan at the Twenty-second Street Station. “We have all the known ones closed now, and we will easily keep track of any new people who move in.“Where we’re going to have the most trouble is in the Cottage Grove district.I hear there are a lot of flats run on the quiet there, and it’ll take time for us to find them all. But we’ll get them, too.”But the plan to clean up the city is beginning to meet resistance. Most of the important witnesses to the killing of Detective Birns have fled to Cedar Lake, Ind., and are fortified in “Jack” Burk’s resort tjiere. safe from the State’s Attorney until he can organize a plan to raid them.Freiberg Warrant Refused.Yesterday Municipal Judge Williams refused to issue a warrant for Benjamin Stanbury, in whose name the Freiberg all-night dance hall is run. The only way now to get at Freiberg’s is by summons to court and a long-drawn civil suit over his right to defy regulations and run wide open day and night.“Freiberg’s case is practically the same as that of former Alderman A1 Tearney,” said Assistant City Prosecutor Burke to Judge Williams. “We believe we can get a conviction on the evidence we hare.”the warrant was refused a^id a ult will be tried.j thousand petitions requesting
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sun, Jul 26, 1914
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