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Show MURDERS IN THE RESORTS I S t a r 1 1 ing Disclosures II Made By Detectives 1 Girl Confesses II Chicago, Sept 6. Miss Francos B Ford, whoso eighty-pago revelation of 1H vice in the village of "West Hammond, 111., is expected to be the basis for IB prosecution of the alleged "vice ring," WM In the small town, was paid to be re- covering from her nervous breakdown ' today. Lack or morphine, to which m the girl is said to bo addlctod, is be- B lieved to have contributed to her H breakdown. 9 Coroner Hoffman ordered deputies S today to seek information which IlR would substantiate the allegations m made by the Ford girl, who was an IB Inmato of the house owned by Henry 'ftm Fous. in whoso place Henry Mossmak- 5M er, the alleged victim of poison, died. II Chicago, Sept.' 6. Frances Ford ', , was arrested toda charged "with be- B ing an accessory before the fact in connection with tho death of John B Messmaker, In a resort at West Ham- B mond, a suburb, on August IX. Her B arrest was made after she had signed B a long affidavit 'setting forth her B knowledge of the alleged clrcum- B stanos which led to Mesamaker's mys- B tenons death. B The narrative of MisB Ford is said B to include the charge that several IB murders -wero perpetrated in the re- IB eort of West Hammond. (H It Is reported that 21 men died un- jH der mysterious oircuniRtances in the M resorts of the vlllago last year. Only M three of these deaths, however, are B matters of record and tho facts con- B corning them axe mysterious. B John Messmakor, it Is said, was BB drugged and later a hypodermic of B poison was given. B At least two other men are said to B have met a similar fate within 12 B months. B The questioning of Miss Ford wa B delayed by the activity of alleged B agents of the alloged "vice ring" com- B posed of West Hammond saloonkccp- ,B As tho girl was being taken to tho fB office of the coroner, several men B were seen following. The detective 'B in .charge of the girl entered a de- Bfl scendlng elevator and hurried her out of the county building without enter- jfjfl Ing the coroner's office. mM The girl and the detective entered Bfl nn automobilo and began a time-kill- fl ing trip along the. boulevards of the jB city. The police had been holding the lfl girl without a warrant and it was JH feared that agents of the "vice ring" IH would obtain her releaso on a writ of fl hs'ieas corpus. Bl Miss Ford alter heinjr takt ,, uo'js jH dinner at a downtown hotel by De- B tectives, became suddenly ill. At B first the police believed she might be BB feigning, but two physicians who ex- Bfl amlned her declared sho was near B collapse from nervous exhaustion. 'B She was removed to the Bridwell flfl hospital for treatment. The arrest of IBB Miss Ford resulted from invesliga- jBfl (Continued on Page FItc) Bfl oo ' B (Continued From Page One.) tlous of Hammond crimo by Miss Virginia Brooks and others. |