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Show SHE ACCEPTS DARE AND CLEANS UP CITY i By NE v Service.) ST. PAUL. Minn The wheels of Justice have been sped up to an amazing amaz-ing degree here, and St. Paul has been made overnight into an unhealthy place for criminals because a woman accepted a challenge. (:on.stance Cuny superintendent or ,a ward neighborhood house, was drawn for grand Jury service. " I'm glad of It," she said. "1 be-1 be-1 lleve speed justice and less redtape 'in crush the crime wave." The grand jury organized. Mi?s Curry was made foreman. I Sho knew nothing about grand jury 'method. But she considered Bhs had been ChallenCCOd, so "she used her own I Ideas ; Cases of 17 gangsters were before the juvy. Six were also held on charges of storming a Jail in the heart of thi city, and freeing a member of their gang. Delay In Indictment made this possible, Miss Curry argued. MIhs Currj became grand jury head at 10 a. m. Six hours later. lh' grand Jury had been organized, heard f0 witnesses and returned 07 Indictments against the gangsters on several cuunts. The action eame so quickly that three confessed and within 12 hours u i ' sentenced to prison for robbery. Tho distric t attorney caught tlui .vpliit, arraign"d the remainder that after noon, and is rushing through their trials. Meantime, St. Paul is unusually free Hum ( ilme, following several month1 of repeated gang outrages. ' - |