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[[letterhead]]    140 NORTH DEARBORN STREET  CHICAGO


140 NORTH DEARBORN STREET  CHICAGO
   [[Jan?]] 29th  1918
   [[Jan?]] 29th  1918


Dear Mary
Dear Mary
   It has been a long long time since I have even tried to write you which I hope you will forgive.  I dont know why. not that I have forgotten or was [[?unwell?]] but I didnt.  then too I have been very busy but not so busy that I could not have written.  For three months to a day I have been defending a graft case.  When they tried to get the Chief of Police for grafting with the vice ring - as if it was not better to be able to pay for a little [[?freedom?]] than not to have it.  If we could only tell the good people before they kill us Hell if they kill us & live they will breed others who could stand for some freedom - if they breed, which they will.  I wish you could have heard the case with its short witnesses & its long one with its detectives & dictographs & tapped telephone lines. with its stool pigeons & informers [[swearing?]] for [[?nninty?] & I[ [?]] them up in a five hour talk at the end & for the [[?]] much to the surprise of the town & the disgust of the govtthe list of witnesses would make you laugh [[?]]
   It has been a long long time since I have even tried to write you which I hope you will forgive.  I dont know why. not that I have forgotten or was [[?unwell?]] but I didnt.  then too I have been very busy but not so busy that I could not have written.  For three months to a day I have been defending a graft case.  When they tried to get the Chief of Police for grafting with the vice ring - as if it was not better to be able to pay for a little [[?]] than not to have it.  If we could only kill the good people before they kill us Still if they kill us & live they will breed others who could stand for some freedom - if they breed, which they will.  I wish you could have heard the case with its short witnesses & its long one with its detectives & dictographs & tapped telephone wires. with its stool pigeons & informers [[?]] for immunity & I shut them up in a five hour talk at the end of it  the [[?]] much to the surprise of the town & the disgust of the goodThe list of witnesses would make you laugh [[?]]

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letterhead 140 NORTH DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO

  Jan? 29th  1918

Dear Mary

  It has been a long long time since I have even tried to write you which I hope you will forgive.   I dont know why. not that I have forgotten or was ?unwell? but I didnt.  then too I have been very busy but not so busy that I could not have written.  For three months to a day I have been defending a graft case.  When they tried to get the Chief of Police for grafting with the vice ring - as if it was not better to be able to pay for a little ? than not to have it.  If we could only kill the good people before they kill us  Still if they kill us & live they will breed others who could stand for some freedom - if they breed, which they will.  I wish you could have heard the case with its short witnesses & its long one with its detectives & dictographs & tapped telephone wires. with its stool pigeons & informers ? for immunity & I shut them up in a five hour talk at the end of it  the ? much to the surprise of the town & the disgust of the good.  The list of witnesses would make you laugh ?