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Show LEADING CITIZENS ARRAIGNED IN COURT Chicago Vice Crusade Brings Shame to Officials of Title & Trust Company. WOMEN ARE SCATTERED Dean Sumner Still Refuses to Surrender Key to Commission's Com-mission's 'Report. CHICAGO. Oct, 7.-T-ArraiKiiincnt in tbo municipal uoiirl uT tlio president ami secretary of one of the largest rear ostalo corporations in tlio city on the Hiarjjc of rcutinir property for immoral purposes, was the lending ovont in tho state's attonioi'-'fi war against the aegrcgated vie district 1o- Other levelo)incuts were the arraignment ar-raignment of more than 4)U inmates of resorts arrested in roccut raids, the announcement by State's, A ttonioy Wayman. that would-be patrons of the ''Levee" will be arrested1 hereafter and court attempts to necure possesfiion of the "key' to Uu: report of the Chicago Chi-cago vice cominissjpn. Harrison M. Riloy, millionaire president presi-dent of the Chicago Title & Trust company, com-pany, and Joseph U. .Dal I, secretary of the organization, were compelled to answer before Municipal .ludge Hopkins Hop-kins to the charge of renting property for illegal purposes. A continuance was obtained for the two until October Octo-ber .15, with tho right reserved to demand de-mand a jury trial. Hotb disclaimed personal knowledge of guilty transactions. transac-tions. More Capiases Issued. Assistant State's Attorney- Thomas Marshall has in hand more than fiftj' capiases against real estate owners and agencies. State's Attorney Wayman's latest move .in tho war of extermination ho has declared against the "lcvcc,? is to station a large forco of policemon in tho district, with orders to arrest every ev-ery man who attempts to patronize any of the resorts. In a statement today, Mr. Waj'.rnau said ihoro would bu uo moro raids for the present. "Thero is uo intention to uso tha police power to drive theBe women out of the district into the residence resi-dence quarters' ho said. "Tho houseB -will be cleared and kopt closed as disorderly dis-orderly houses, that is all for the present." pres-ent." Disposition of the large number ol women who have left tho "Leveo" is a problem. Many of them have sought lodging in hotels and boarding' houses in tho residence neighborhood. Will Resist to Utmost. The fight for the possession of tho key to the report of the Chicago vice commission, w'hich is said to coutain tho Dames of property owners, orgau-ized orgau-ized vice chiefs, and others sought by tho state's attorney's office, was continued con-tinued today by Mr. Wayman, Dean Walter T. Sumner of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, chairman of tho commission, announced today that he would resist to the utmost the surrender sur-render of tho key. The lcoy contains from 1200 to 1500 names coucealed under symbols in tho commission's published roport. Mr. Sumner defends his attitudo by asserting assert-ing that the key would furuish a complete com-plete vice directory of Chicago which would be demoralizing, that tho information infor-mation was obtained from confidential sources and that it is largely hear say. Crusade at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 7. Five hundred hun-dred women of questionable reputa Hon have beou driven out ot' town and practically all the saloons, with cheap grill rooms attached have boon closed by a special "vice squad" of thirty-five thirty-five patrolmen. |