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T " ' wf J1 vptfm wnqupr"' vm "i 4jjQfHfrf9mn i-"vl7wwmWT"f - vr r CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1889. Bv k Mi. ffrf If - INGKNIOUS REPORTERS. THOSE OF CHICAGO ARE BOTH DETECTIVES AND JOURNALISTS. reach of JTHey llnvo Unearthed Most Tlint 1 Known About tlio Cronln Case nnd Many Other Murders Uxtraonllnarjr Hot Icon Em ployed nUciiltcxt n Women or Priests. (Special (XMTWpOOtlCQCO.) Washington, July 18. Tlio most suc cessful detectives iu this country tiro tlio nowspnper reporters. Iu no other city iiavo they ilono such good work in this lino na in Chicago. Tho young giant of tlio west is tho headquarters of sensa tlonnl news in this country. It produces moro murder mysteries, great crimes and Interesting "cases" than tho metropolis nnd all its surrounding cities combined. A loolc back but a fovv years calls to mind no end of great cases in Chicago. Besides tho Anarchist affair, which was International in its bearings, scores of other crimes or mysteries havo attracted attention throughout tho country. Tlicro was the Joo Mackin election fraud case, which involved tho election of n United States Ecnator; tho Wilson doublo mur der at Winnctka; tho trial and sentenco to prison of McGariglc, McDonald and ooveral county commissioners; tho sen sational escapo of McUariglc to Canada, tho midnight killing of mlllionairo Sncll, tlio Eva Mitchell mystery, tho Carter di vorce case, and last, and perhaps great est of all, tho assassination of Dr. Cro nln. It is a saying among tho newspaper .men of Chicago that thoy aro no sooner ,out of one big thing than another is .ready for them. And this is truo. Tho Anarchist trials wcronoBOoncrovcr than tho unfaithful public officials wcro brought to tho bar of justice. Thcso trials out of tho way, tho Anarchists wcro ready for tlio gallows. Then catuo tho Snell killing and tho shooting of millionaire llawson, and after that tho Carter divorce case Tlio very day tho verdict in this case was brought in tho body of Dr. Cronin was found in a sower. Tlio successsul Chicago reporter is nioro than n nowspapcr man ho is a de tective, a coroner, a policeman: ho is almost a judge. Sensational wheat corners nnd speculative panics which shako up tho wholo world are among his cosiest tasks. When men or women go to Chicago to commit suicide, ns they -often do, tho Chicago reporter welcomes them with nil proper hospitality nnd at tention. In this Cronin caso tho reporters have discovered about all tho ovidenco thcro is in tlio hands of tho authorities. It was Gallagher, of Tho Tribune, who dis closed tho nature, source and signifi cance of tho bogus dispatches sent out from Toronto announcing Dr. Cronln's arrival there. It was another Tribuno man, Sullivan, who gave to tho public tho facts about Alexander Sullivan's losses iu tho wheat market. It was Ledercr, the Ilerald artist, who, by promptly and skillfully following up an accidental clow, discovered tho sceno of tho cruel killing at the Carlson cottago. It was another Ilerald man who hunted among the hundreds of expressmen in tho city till ho found tho ono who drovo tho load of f urnituro to that bloody little houso in tho suburbs. At every stago of this caso tho report .ors havo given tho polico moro informa tion than the polico havo given them, notwithstanding that all tho advantages itro on the sido of tho police. When a man has anything to tell ho goes straight .to tho polico with it. People are afraid to talk to newspaper men on such mat ters, because they disliko publicity. When tho polico wcro at their wits' ends for a key to tho mystery of tho murder of millionaire Sncll, n bright reporter worked out a clow which tho polico had overlooked, and found that tho young good-for-nothing, Tnscott, was tho guilty person. Though not gen orally known, it is a fact that tho news papers of Chicago havo spent thousands of dollars trying to catch Tascott, and in all probability havo been closer to him than tho police. A Chicago re porter is now en routo for China on a 'Tascott mission, which may or may not justify tho expectations of tho nows papcr which is paying his expenses. What may bo said to havo been tho beginning of rcportorial cnterpriso in Chicago was a similar trip abroad, mado by a representative of The Daily Nows. Tlio president of a Chicago sav ings bank had stolen a largo sum of money and disappeared. Tlio Nows ro- porter shadowed him to Europo, found him nnd interviewed him. Tho Nows wa3 then a young nnd struggling jour nal, and this feat materially helped it along tho highway to success. Newspapers aro moro persistent than tlio polico. Another representative of Tho Nows visited Europo whilo tho An archists wero lying in jail, and by shrowd maneuvering managed to inturviow tho rolatlvcs of tho accused men to ascer tain nil about their history on tho other side of tho water, and oven to sccuro copies of letters which they had written borne. In this Tnscott case, too, tho polico appear long sinco to havo given up hopo of apprehending tho culprit. Tho nowspapers aro still at work. The woman with whom young Tascott was infatuated is still under nowspapcr sur veillance. Not many monthsngoa young woman, employed by a Chlc0o nowspapcr, en gaged as 6crvaut in tho family of Tns cott's brother. That newspapers aro dis croot as well as enterprising is also shown iu this caso. A reporter spent two months Investigating a phaso of tho Snell mystery which had been neglect ed, and obtained information which would havo created a great sensation if published. Dut as it was Information which possibly could not bo substantiated in court, the secret is locked in tho breasts of a half dozon persona, It wax a Chicago reporter, Mr. Chapln, ithen of Tho Tribuuo, now of Tho Times, who performed tho unprecedented feat of capturing tho solo survivor of a great Btcumship disaster and of running his prisoner awny out of the other nowspnper men. A passenger steamer was lost near Milwaukee. At first it was supposed all on Iwird had perished, but after tho Inpso of two days ono man was picked up and taken nshoro. Chapln chartered a tug nnd took this man to Milwaukee nnd thenco to Chicago and his own home. It Is perhaps superfluous to remark that tho man was well cared for nnd thoroughly Intcrviowcd. Tlio same Mr. Chnpln was lucky enough to catch Mr. Garlglo as ho landed on Cana dian floil. A dozen reporters wcro skir mishing nil through Caunda, but Chapln alono was lucky enough, or shrowd enough, to bo at tho right spot. When Mr. Garlglo jumped ashore tlio first man ho Raw was this Chicago reporter. When rich old Mr. Wilson nnd hU wifo wero found beaten into jelly in their homo at Winnctka, near Chicago, tho polico looked tho ground over nnd con cluded they had another first class mys tery on their hands. Whilo tho polico wcro running around looking for clows a reporter, this Mr. Chapln, found that Ncal McKcaguo. a butcher of tho vlllago, had owed Mr. Wilson somo monoys that ho had been tho first to discover the bodies, but that ho had returned to his shop without saying a word to anybody, served two or threo customers, gono by train from Winnctka to Chicago, and called on several acquaintances tlicro without once mentioning tho tcrriblo sceno of blood his oyos had beheld a fow hours beforo. Naturally concluding that McKcaguomust bo tho murderer, Chapin decided to confront his man with nn accusation. Though well knowing that a man who could commit n crimo llko this and go about his business as if noth ing had happened must bo ono of tho most cruel nnd despcrnto of criminals, tho reporter faced McKeagtto nlono. "IIo was tho coolest villain I over saw," says Mr. Chapin, who is now a Washington correspondent. "IIo sat on tho meat block in his shop, whetting a big carver on his boot leg. I had on my overcoat, with my right hand in tho out sido pocket grasping a rovolvcr. " 'McKcaguo,' I said, 'you killed Mr. and Mrs. Wilson.' "I expected to sco him jump for mo, with that knifo aimed at my heart. In stead, he raised tho carver, ran his thumb along tho odgo deliberately and without tho quivor of a nervo, and an swered: " 'Do you think so? Let's sco you i.utu I.I McKcaguo was arrested, tried and ac quitted, though thcro novcr was much doubt of his guilt. IIo led a very wicked lifo after this, and was finally killed in n brawl out west. When necessary tho Chicago reporter will tako desperato chances. IIo is not afraid to enter a nest of toughs nor to mako midnight explorations of dark al leys in tho slums. IIo often pretends to bo an officer, and "flashing his star" is a rcportorial amusement. Newspaper men who do polico work wear stars under tho lapels of their coats, tho pieces of silver bearing tho names of their papers. Thcso stars aro open scsatno with tho polico at fires nnd on similar occasions. Little Charley Seymour, of Tlio Ilerald, ono of tho most brilliant reporters in Chicago, has arrested and marched to tho station houso two or threo men simply by mo mentarily exposing his star and saying, "Como along with me." Soymour, Ehlert and McIIugh, threo reporters, wero lucky enough to como upon a man whom they suspected of having killed Eva Mitchell. Thoy "flashed their stars" on him, arrested him, took him to tho station, locked him up in tho "swent box," and inter viowed him to their hearts' content beforo tho mnn suspected thoy wero anything but officers of tho law, and beforo tho polico knew what was going on in their own domicile Whilo at work on this samo caso Re porter McIIugh had a rcmarkablo expe rience. A Spaniard who iiad his bed In tho loftof tho Chicago university, found ed by Stephen A. Douglas, but now abandoned and vacant, was suspected of complicity in tho murder. McIIugh procured tho murdered girl's dress nnd hat and carried them Into ono night to tho university building. Effecting nn entrnnco by means of a window, ho disrobed and put on tho girl's clothing. Thus attired ho groped his way up four or 11 vo (lights of stairs to the attic, burst open tlio door of tho Span iard's room and stood beforo tho mnn in tlio habiliments of tho dead. Tho effect was startling. Throwing up Ills hands in despair, tho Spaniard called to Eva for mercy. No other proof of his guilt was obtained, liowovcr, and ho was nover arrested. Nor was tho mystery over cleared up. Nowspapers and nowspapcr men do not nlwuys succcod. Tho managing cd itor of a Chicago paper gavo a reporter n thousand dollars and carte blancho to go to Kansas to get, buy or steal an inter vlow with Sarnli Dodgo, tho spinster who hud killed a prominent man named Bab- cock, tier falso lover. Tho roportcr as sumed tho disguiso of a traveling preach or, and failed. Then ho tried bribery and failed again. Lovo nor religion nor money could open tho mouth of Sarah Dodgo. Beforo tho escapo of McGarlglo a city editor had had tho jail nnd Mc Gariglo's houso watched for threo weeks, in anticipation of such nn event. Through a misunderstanding tho guard was not at his post the night of tho escape. Speaking of n reporter assuming disguise of a minister of tlio gospel minds mo of a feat performed by porter Seymour, already mentioned. imprisoned suspect liad resisted all efforts of tho police and tho newspaper men to induce him to confess. Seymour hap pened to know of a rcnegndo clergyman who lived far out on tho West Sido. Though discarded by his church ho contiuued to wear tho garb of a priest, and spent his timo iu drinking saloons and other bad company. Seymour found this renegade and induced him to go to tho station houso and tako the con fession of the suspect. Tho confession, as it turned out, was not of great im portauco, but that did not detract from tho brilliancy of tho feat, from tho do-toctivo-roporter point of view, Walteu Wkllmam. DrnwIuK Or How the Ornitit Golden curred, Kvorynno wnnts to honr tho result of tlio Ornnil Kxtrnordlimry tioitlen (tlio 2.T)tli Monthly) Pnwvlnu, which took place nt New Orlcnn. Lu,, of the l.oullnnn Htnto lottery on Tuosdny. Juno IRth, issti. Hero In n record ofnouKHif Fortune's vagaries, nml nny fur ther lurornmtloncnu ho had on application to M, A. Dnuphlu, New Orleans. I.n. Ticket No. M.iiOJ iltcw tho First Canltnl i'rlio of Iikiu.OOU. It wn sold In fractional pnrts of fortieth nt t.OUonehentt M, Dauphin. New Orleans, i.n.1 uiiu iu .urs, tiuiinriiiu -iiiinmui. mi ri-u onil Ht., Huston, Mnsn.ionc to Knni Hnitlniiw Nnt'l Hunk, Knst Hnitlunw, Midi, j one to Win imi'HUM, nuiutn, .Minn ; ono Wyinnii, Lynn, llersoy lloitiin, to Mnrtlm O. Mil.) ono to Iicuniird M. mum.: ono to i.nvciioii nei-Kon. Hncroinonto. .nl.t one to K. II. Lit Tour, lluiralo, N. Y. one to C. !'. Senior, I.in router, Ohio; ono to Mlsn Atuilo Dnwco ntriiwu. Tex.! nun to Oiuitou K.nchnniro Hunk Clinton, Mlv ono to Htnto Nntlnnul lliuik, Memphis, Tcnil,, olio to J. F. l'.dwnrds, At Inntn, (lu etc.. elo. No. (12,311 drew thu Hce ond Capital l'rlxo ori.W.un), nlno sold In frnn. tlonnl fori It' th nt 1 Mlrnch: one to .Mud. J. 1'. Docointor.oi N. 1:1th HI., I'lillldolphln, I'n.l one to I. Klelber, MM N lutlt HI., Philadel phia. I'll,: one to It. O.tlrccnc, Portland, Mo.; one toll, ltoscuhurit. (Inlvcston. Toxin; ono to John Hnrneou, lil KlIottNt., Iloton,Musn one to K, Ahisilon, 1S7 KIkIiUi pU Now York Ctyioneto 1). Illlluiaii, Ueddlnir. Mil.; ono to K. Weuner, C'hlcnico, III.; onoto M.H. Mur phy, Merit. Tex.; one to John I.. Hlern, Jr., Lawrence 1'. O., I.n,; eto., etc. Ticket No. 4l,(ttl drew the Third Cnpltnl 1'rUe of IllW.WM. nlsosold In fructlonnl fortieths nt fl.tO ouch; ono to S.J. Klnuher, Newark, N. J.; one to Frank i:, l'leree, ft) Clinton dt.. lloston,Mnss. ono to (I It, Htcpticnsou, Sncrniucnto, Cut.; onoto F. K. Lutlry, Now York City; ono to V. II. Ilrown. Minneapolis, Minn.; ono to L. Fuuntln, Mhiiw, Kus.t one to W. 0. FMior, avj HnlKcy HI., Nowri , N. J-, etc. Tlui next tho Sllnl Krnnd monthly drnwluit will tnko plucoTHcsdny(nlwnysTiicsdny) AUitust 13th, 18SU. Do not let tho dato ho forgotten. To Kphrlnin rendnnt. Notice. K. Meyer, uon-ronldent do- You will tnko notice Hint on the 17th iliiv of July, lwi), Kiibleu H. Potvln, pl.iintnr. illod hl petition lu the dlnlrlct court, I,nuenNicr County, Netiroakn.nuntiiHl you, John K. Ilnrr, J. Frank llnrr, AnnTo Ilnrr, A. C. Ilnrr nnd Wllllnm Henry Hinlth, HnrrctnlmliiR to ho mi ret y for you nnd nnld John K. Ilnrr, nnd tocMnbllnlihlx rliihl toncortnlu moduli inont of u Jiidiftncnt uindo to him by tho Qillnoy Nntlounl llnnk of Qulney, Illlnoln, In nu action Iu the illxtrlct court of LnuciiHter County. Nebraska, wherein the tlulncy Nn tlonal Hunk wan plalntlir mid yourself unci John K. Ilnrr, Fnbleu H. I'otvln worodofeiul aiitn, nnd tocntnhllnh hi lieu or Kiild Judg ment which ho pnld iif xnoli surety upon and ngnlnnt lotn nine, ten and eleven, (0, 10 and ID lu block twoiity-iilne, (if)) nnd .oi nvo, tlilr t 'on, fourteen and seventeen, (A. 13, 14 nml 17) In block tweuty-lx, (20) nil In First Addition to West Lincoln, nnd also lots ono, seven, olffht nnil nine, (1,7, 8 nnd l) In block two, m In Inilinir Addition in the cltv of Lincoln. and also lot three, (3 In block olulity-elidit, () In tho city of Lincoln, nnd the wcit hnlf of the south-west quarter of section nine, (9) Inu'iinlilii pIdIh. I'M) riinim Knvpn. (71 nil 111 Lail castor County, state of Ncbrnskn. to soil suld real estate nnd lots acconllnK t law, to pay snld JudKinciit, Interest nnd cot, nnd claim, nml rlirlit nl huiiI l'ntvln. nml to ntllilV tlio proceed thoreoftn tho payment of pliilntlll'n iicn, ciniin unu ngiii. You are required to nnnwer tlio snld peti tion on or beforo tho 'JOth tiny of August, IMM Lincoln, Neh., July 18, 1MU. FAI1IUN H. FOTVIN. lly FOUND &1IUUK, 7-20-lt. his Attorneys Notice. Notice Is hereby plu'ii that by virtue of nn mas ter Hen dated on tlio 6th dny of February, 18l, uiion which there Is now due Hie sum of g.n.00. default lmvliiK been made InthelMiymeiitofBnld sum, nnd no suit or oilier proceeilliiK of law hav ing been Instituted to recover snltl debt or nny port thereof, therefore I will sell tlw proH-rty therein described, iz: One dark bay horse nbout 1 1 liaiutn IiIkIi, white strip In face, V2 years old ond welRlitiiK nbout law IMuiuls. at public miction nt tlio barn of Mllllkln Uron., In the city of Lincoln, In I jincuster county, on tho Mil day of AiiKUtt, 18SD, nt ono o'clock, p. in., of snld day, to pny snld debt, Interest nnd nil costs of thee proceed lnKs. MILLIKIN UHOM. lly FousuA Ht'RH, nttomeys. 1)ated Lincoln, Ncbrnska, July 13th, lfoO. 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