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Show CHICAGO MURDERERS ENJCYGHRISTMAS CHICAGO, Dec. 25. Scventy-sev-on niurdorers, with GOO other prisoners, pris-oners, partook of Christmas dinner and exchanged Yuletlde greetings at tho Cook county Jail today. In many respects tho holiday was the most unusual in tho tragedy-laden history of the institution. Ewald Shlblawski, ono of tho four murderers sentenced to hang, delivered deliver-ed a torse temperance lecture to a group of prisoners: "We had too much whiskey In us when wo did It. But for that Guol-7.ow Guol-7.ow (a truck farmer whom they murdered) mur-dered) would be with his wife ana child today. 1 wish I could bring hhn back." Thomas Jennings, a negro, sentenced sen-tenced to hang for tho murder of Clarence Hiller, has turned preacher and today had fifteen negro prison-era prison-era praying on their knees. He also led a song service with the cnthuglPii lasm of a revivalist. j fjl Mrs. Louise. B. Vermilya, charged 'M' with several poisonings, said she had'f spent a cheerful Christmas In corn. ffi' pany with Mrs. Jane Qnlnn, who j I fit charged with shooting her husband & T John Qulnn. Tho two talked ami J 1 laughed over their dinner of turkoyillr and pudding. Ill; Sixteen hundred prisoners ate aiwiwi: elaborate dinner at the Bridewell and'jp-a and'jp-a similar menu was served 150 boysJjI'C Imprisoned at the John Worthy j fr schooL ' il if '' Ten thousand pounds of turl, 3 W chicken, gooso and duck were catcri'! rC at the county hospital, the detention 3 fyed hospital, the Dunning Insane asylu and the Oak Forest Infirmary. Two', it tons of candy, 50 barrels of nuts and- fji thousands of apples, oranges and; 4L. pears were, distributed at these ln-ij stltutions. A Christmas tree cele-J bratlon was' a feature of the day at ' f each Institution. .Vaudeville enter-' P tainments -were given , In the evca- M lTlG' no 1 |