The Day Book

NEWSPAPERS HELPED SEERS LAND "SUCKERS"

The story of how the clairvoyant crooks made use of the advertising columns of the Chicago Examiner to lure victims into their clutches was continued on the witness stand in Judge O'Connor's court today.

Both prosecution and defense in the police graft trials in which Detective Sergeants Wm. Egan and Walter O'Brien are defendants have had witnesses bring out the fact that the clairvoyant crooks depended upon the columns of the Examiner to direct the victims into their lair. Ryan, king of the clairvoyants, the one who cleaned up $70,000 in less than a year, last week told the jury that he advertised his "store" in the Examiner. He was a witness for the state.

Yesterday Attorney Northup, for the defense, told that O'Brien had asked Advertising Manager Sercy of the Examiner to drop the clairvoyant ads, saying that the game must perish if the newspapers would not help in getting victims. He said the request was refused.

Today Detective Alice Clement testified that when she was detailed to get evidence against the clairvoyants that she only had to refer to the ads in the Chicago Examiner to find out where they were located. "I used to locate them through the columns of the Tribune, too," she later told newspaper men, "but the Tribune stopped the ads when the police asked them to." Northup said the police discovered they had not the power to make the Examiner stop running the ads.