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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
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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.
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on thin train), nnd nt 5 p. in. Return nt 10:50
a. in8iWp, m5i20p, m., nnd 8 p.m. Pic
nickers and nil people desiring to spend tho
dny In thu woods should tnko tho 10:30 n. in.
train. Tho 2:30 train for nil who deslro to nt
tend tho Oinnd Concert, Tho 5 p. m. train
will bo In tlmo for tho MUltnry lluiul Concert.
Tho rcfreshuionts nnd nil limine nt tho Park
I now under tho uiniingeiucnt direct, nnd
thohest ofoverythliig will bo tho order now
on nt low prices.
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