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Show CHICAGO POLICE HEAD TENDERS RESIGNATION Chief Healey Quits as Result of Differences Dif-ferences Between Mayor and State's Attorney. CHICAGO. Dec. 11. Charles C. Healey. chief of police, awaiting trial on a charge of permitting the operation of vicious resorts, resigned tonight, the resignation to take effect January 1. The resignation resigna-tion followed statements by Chief Ilea-lev Ilea-lev that he would leave the service only at the- urgent desire of Mayor Thompson and that he was resigning voluntarily. "I am surrendering the office with full i-onpc loudness of having perfprmed lis duties with scrupulous honesty and to the best of my ability," Mr. llealey's letter SaChief Healey expressed the hope that he would he restored to his former position posi-tion as head of the traffic squad here. The Indictments against him and the subsequent sub-sequent separation from the chief's office were developments of differences between Laor Thompson and Maclay Hnyne, Democratic stale's attorney, it Is believed. The disagreement reached a crisis after Chief Healey had suspended Police Captain Cap-tain O'Brien, charging him with failing to suppress vice in a district inhabited larselv bv negroes. Hoyne accused the chief "of insincerity In this move and. while O'Brien was on the stand testifying on Home's application for a warrant for Mr. Hea ley's arrest, the grand jury sitting sit-ting in another part of the city returned Indictments against him. |