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Show CRIME HAD ALLIES IN POLICE DEPARTMENT Startling State of Affairs Revealed in Chicago by Member of Clairvoyant Clair-voyant King. CHICAGO. Dec. 6. Police Captain John Haipin, former cl'ief of detectives here; Lieutenant John Tobln and the other police po-lice detectives indicted yesterday ai accomplices ac-complices of the clairvoyant ring, were alpo on the payroll oi the wire-tapping swindlers' syndicate, it was declared here today by Maclay Hoyne. state's attorney. Hoyne said that hp had a full confession Implicating the indicted policemen from Clarence Class, head of the wire tappers. Class is under indictment here. Haipin and Tobin. who were suspended yesterday by Mayor Harrison as soon as their indictments were made public, were not taken Into ens-tody today. Capiases for their arrest were expected to be issued is-sued tomorrow. Fifty or sixty swindlers operated'in the wire-tapping gantr, of which Class was chief, according" to Hoyne. The men had identification cards to make them known to the police who were In the pay of the syndicate. Hoyne said today that confessions confes-sions from th" underworld, being brought to him by criminals of different sorts, indicated in-dicated that virtually every kind of crime had its allies lu the Chicago police department. |