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    "ocrText": "CHICAGO ILD RIBUNE\nWEDNESDAY, FEBH ARY 18, 1931\n1931-12\nW. Perkins Bull Hurt in Crash\nMystery Man\nof U. S. 'Raid'\nY\n18\n193Y.\nBadly Injured\nhey oming learned that Mrs. Sidley\nhe in that night from Racine, was\nhome of her father, William H.\nlawyer an active mystery. He is a wealthy\nTorlick, of Horlick Milk fame,\nCode Mystery Dispelled.\nfarmer, land owner, traveler and lec-\nof Toronto and London, cattle-\nCan-\nadian attorney, and a chief figure in\nThe ill parcotic agents arrested'\nhospital at Putney Heath during the\nturer, founder of the Perkins Bull\nthe local divorce suit of Mrs. May\nin in the Drake hotel and Mrs. Sid- Mr\nthe Lake Shore Drive\nsociety. world war, and he naturally moves in\nbelle Horlick Sidley, and two other\nmen were injured early yesterday\nilding, headquarters of the narcotic\nd took them to the Transportation hotei\nleast Mr, Bull has' large family and\nwhen their automobile, speeding to\nleaped when they found Mrs.\nThe hopes of the investiga-\nsome popular in Chicago, accepted in\nly two of his sons have been social at\nDetroit on a secret mission, crashed\ninto a stalled motor truck in Allen,\nwith this an overnight bag and Sid-\nThere have been rumors of their\nof the city's leading families\nMich, near Coldwater.\nhey found it contained nothing\nalong. But when they opened they\nshould not have.\na\ndaughters of one or more of\npective engagement to debutante pros-\nAttendants at the Wade Memorial\nhospital in Coldwater said early this\nmorning that the condition of Mr\nhe code also lost much of its\nyoung the women had anything to do the\nfamilies, Whether friends of these\nBull, who is 60 years old, was seri-\nsatisfaction of the inquisitors\naspect when it was explained sin- to\nharrassment of Mr. Bull is with\nous, due to a hip fracture, but that\nas to thwart sleuths supposedly that\nonly ter that the federal authorities a would mat-\nspeculate about.\nhe would be removed to Toronto at\njoyed by Dr. John Streeter Sidley.\n9 o'clock. His companions who were\nit Mrs. Sidley is suing for di-\nto in hear Chancery James P. Harold, who\npected to appear today before Master\nMr. Bull and Mrs. Sidley were ex-\nhurt are Bernard Magruder, vice\n$\nney for Mrs. Sidley and he\nMr. Bull has been acting as\npresident of the Horlick Malted Milk\ncompany, of which Mrs. Sidley's\ncuss legal matters:\ned that they employed the code ex\nhaving is him shadowed. Dr. Sidley from also\njunction restraining Mr. Bull an in-\nDr. Sidley's petition for is\nfather is owner, and Carl F. Moore\nof Chicago, chauffeur of the wrecked\nmotive of those who desired\ncar. Magruder left the hospital at\narrassment of Mr. Bull is still head $250,000. of a secret service agency, Harrison, for\nsuing Mr. Bull and J.J.\n8 o'clock, suffering from a minor foot\ninjury. Moore was still unconscious\nfrom his injuries this morning.\nMystery Surrounds Trip.\nMystery attended the motor trip to\nDetroit in view of an utterance of\na\nMoore during a momentary return to\nconsciousness. According to the\nchauffeur, he was driving Bull and\nMagruder to Detroit, and had to\nget there or else the federal men\nwould be after them.'\nAlthough the accident occurred at\ndaybreak yesterday, word of it was\nnot received here until last night,\nMrs. Bull and her sons immediately\nleft their suite in the Drake hotel\nand departed for Coldwater. Mr\nBull's attorney, and a personal physi\ncian accompanied them.\nAccording to Sheriff R. L. Green\nof Branch county and his deputy,\nGeorge Miller, the accident appeared\nunavoidable. The Bull car was trav\neling up a hill at a high speed and\nstruck the stalled truck.\nNARCOTIC RAID A FIASCO.\nThe mystery of the detention by\nnarcotic agents of Mr. Bull and Mrs\nMabelle Horlick Sidley last Saturday\nsimmered down yesterday to specu-\nlation as to the identity of those who\ntook the federal sleuths on a snipe\nhunting expedition.\nFollowing the secret inquisition in\nthe Transportation building Friday\nnight and Saturday morning, Assist-\nant United States Attorney Daniel\nAnderson and the narcotic opera\ntives admitted they had found no evi\naence to justiLy their suspicions of\nan illicit traffic, M.r. Anderson went\nso far yesterday as to declare:\n\"I am convinced that this whole\nthing was a blunder on the part of\nthe government.'\nWho Inspired the Raid.\nThis suggested that some person or\npersons with a motive best known to\nthemselves had inspired the raid on\nthe gold coast apartments and the\nquestioning of Mr. Bull and Mrs. Sid-\nley, and a canvass of the various\nbranches of the government disclosed\nthat such was the case.\nMr. Bull, whose biographical sketch\noccupies 300 words in the British\nWho's Who, had been suspected of\neverything from hating babies to put-\nting butter on his oatmeal, the private\nsleuths told the federal department\nheads. The immigration officials were\nasked to find out whether he, as a\nCanadian, had a good reason to be in\nthis country. All this, of course, be-\nfore the automobile accident of yes-\nterday morning.\n/\nThe income tax experts were so-\nlicited. Maybe Mr. Bull had not ac-\ncounted to Uncle Sam for his reputedly\nenormous revenue. These departments\ndismissed the sleuths wath tolerant\namusement. But, not so with the\nnarcotic operatives.\\\nIn tapping the wires of Mr. Bull\nand Mrs. Sidley, the private investi-\n(Continued on page 4. column 5.)"
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