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MRS. FREDERIC THOMPSON (MABEL TALIAFERRO)Forty burglaries, more than twenty cases | of highway robbery and ten minor robber- ( ies make up the total of .crimes reported o to the police for the forty-eight hours end- 1 ing at midnight Thursday. Arrests follow- r lug these crimes were very few. , (Three men, one of wnom lias confessed, r are held at the Desplnlnes street station i for robbing Howard Wilder. 1306 South e St. Louis avenue, Monday night. One of i the robbers was seen by detectives dis- j playing a revolver as he was about to t enter a house. I iFour other men were arrested yesterday ! tafternoon and held for the ulleged robbing j t of Ivan Xnheck of $165 which he had ydrawn from the bank for a trip to Sweden. E S. H. O’Connor, 5251 Magnolia avenne, s escaped being robbed when be fell to the s sidewalk at Evanston and Berwyn ave- i nues and shouted for help. Two young E men, who had stopped him and pointed revolvers in his face. fled. tFive robbers took $60 from Milton E. t Witherspoon, 3226 Calumet avenue, as he ’ „ approached his doorway at 1 o’clock yes- *] terday morning. They escaped. yEmil Holm. 164 West Oak street, was r approached by two men In Wells street, near Tell court, and ran. One shot was r fired at him, hut he escaped. rJ. D. Collins, 3434 Lexington street, was t robbed of $255 at Lexington street and ^ St. Louis avenue.LOSES HIS BRIDE AND $50Barber Asks Arrest of Woman With Whom He Eloped.Isaac Wassermnn, a barber; 836 WestFourteenth street, has lost not only thewoman to whom he thought he was legallywedded, but when she left, he says, shetook with her $50 belonging to Wasserraan.He appeared before Municipal Judge Dolanin the South Clark Street Court yesterdayand asked for a warrant for the woman,whose maiden name was Anna Osterset^T.• _“We eloped to Crown Point, Ind., seven months ago,” he told the Judge. “I secured a license, but for a certain reason we were not married there. On returning to Chicago we were married by a rabbi. Yesterday she wrote that she had consulted a lawyer and he had Informed her she was not legally married to me.”WOMAN ADMITS BIGAMYSays She Was So Madly In Love She ;i Lost Her Self-Control. *Mrs. Lillian Starne Hascall Rlpstra, was ] held in the Maxwell street court yesterday 1 on a charge of bigamy. She said: “I fell i madly in love with Ripstra and I just 1 couldn't help marrying him. I lost all ’ control of myself.” She married William i Hascall June 27, 1906. iu Iowa, when she ] was sixteen years old. She ran away ; from Hascall four years ago and met i Frank B. Ripstra, nn engraver employed by the Chicago Photo Engraving Company. They were married here September 23, 1911. A month later they quarreled and she left him, going to live with her parents at 4144 West Twenty-first street.photo worrnTiBANQUET FOR M’GOORTYPr\ OTOSv DAVIS And T,LCK.MLY£Ti£Frederic W. Thompson.Four Hundred Friends Will Give Dinner to Judge-Elect.A fellowship dinner is to be tendered to Circuit Court Judge-elect John P. Mc-Goorty by 400 of his friends next Wednesday evening, December ti, in the Gold Room of the Congress Hotel. Ex-Judge John Barton Payne will be toastmaster, and prominent professional and business men will deliver short addresses:- Music and vaudeville will be supplied. The committee on arrangements to William D. Mc-Junkin, Homer J. Buckley, James J. Stokes, Dr. F. W. McNamara and Jack Lait. Mr. McGoorty will take his seat next Monday.Actress Will File Suit in Chi cago Before First of Week, Is Report,RUNS TO KEEP WARM; FINEDDetectives Stop Dancer Who Forgot His Overcoat.James Hagen’s failure to wear an overcoat to a dance at the Second Regiment Armory Thanksgiving eve, which caused him to sprint to get warm after he had left a street car for his home, resulted in his being fined $10 and costs for disorderly conduct by Municipal Judge Himes at the Maxwell Street Court yesterday. Hagen was galloping in the middle of the street to kill the chill down his back.“Halt!” shouted Detectives Byrne and O’Sullivan of the Fillmore Street Station. But Hagen kept on going. . The sleuthsgave chase and overtook him.LAN comingovercoats on record and domestic ^ woolens, very \ar\original styles, \fSsSli values of a su- ^li|peri or order,$12 to $75. See ''Jpespecially the coats we’re || Ishowing at Mm|
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Dec 02, 1911
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